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re: How much was your wedding?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:43 pm to Kujo
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:43 pm to Kujo
We kept it under $15k. Wife's grandmother had savings bonds that she cashed out that covered most of it.
Lots of people would be pretty amazed at the cost these days to put on a respectable wedding. The decent reception places are just stupid expensive these days. My daughter is at least 10 years away from that event and she's going to have some tough choices to make because my part will be capped at $10k.
Lots of people would be pretty amazed at the cost these days to put on a respectable wedding. The decent reception places are just stupid expensive these days. My daughter is at least 10 years away from that event and she's going to have some tough choices to make because my part will be capped at $10k.
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Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:43 pm to Kujo
Around $75k if you include the rehearsal dinner.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:44 pm to Kujo
Is this going to be like your other threads that start with an innocuous question and then you start brow beating everyone whose answers differ from your personal beliefs?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:45 pm to Kujo
After the time and headaches marriage has caused me... priceless
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:45 pm to Kujo
About $275. Same chapel as Michael Jordan, Britney Spears and the Great Stone Cold Steve Austin. 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:45 pm to notiger1997
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We kept it under $15k
Same
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:46 pm to Kujo
I don't know nor do I want to know. My wife's parents paid for it, but I would say somewhere less than 10K. I found out after the fact that they offered to give us the money and we could use it for whatever we wanted, but my wife wanted to whole nine yards.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:46 pm to Kujo
There's an appropriate amount for a wedding, believe it or not. You spend less than that and it can come off as cheap and trashy, or you spend well over that and it comes out as gaudy and trashy. I've been to all three types and there's definitely a sweet spot in the middle
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:47 pm to Perrydawg
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but I would say somewhere less than 10K
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but my wife wanted to whole nine yards.
It was well over $10k then.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:47 pm to Kujo
I think it was about $100.
With nobody helping pay for it, we hit the local JoP and used what we had saved for the honeymoon.
It was either spend all we had for other people to feel good about coming to our wedding and not have a honeymoon or say screw the people and have a nice honeymoon. The honeymoon was much better than I can imagine the wedding would have been.
I would recommend this to anyone and tell my daughter the same. I'd rather give her enough for a small family get together, a kick arse honeymoon and put a big chunk down on their first house than to drop it all on a wedding.
With nobody helping pay for it, we hit the local JoP and used what we had saved for the honeymoon.
It was either spend all we had for other people to feel good about coming to our wedding and not have a honeymoon or say screw the people and have a nice honeymoon. The honeymoon was much better than I can imagine the wedding would have been.
I would recommend this to anyone and tell my daughter the same. I'd rather give her enough for a small family get together, a kick arse honeymoon and put a big chunk down on their first house than to drop it all on a wedding.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:48 pm to lsunurse
I think ours was in the $10-15k range. Basic wedding and reception. But the reception was worth it. 15 years later and I still get compliments on the reception.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:50 pm to Upperdecker
$12,000. We both wish we would have gone very small and spent a good chunk on an expensive honeymoon. Better to blow money on a week than a day IMO. Plus Weddings suck when you have a photographer telling you to pose constantly and a ton of family to go around talking to.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:54 pm to Golfer
I didn't ask I paid the preacher and split to cost of the rehearsal dinner with my parents. Every time my wife asks me why I want nothing but sons my response is that the rehearsal dinners are cheaper.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:54 pm to Dough
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I think it was about $100.
With nobody helping pay for it, we hit the local JoP and used what we had saved for the honeymoon.
It was either spend all we had for other people to feel good about coming to our wedding and not have a honeymoon or say screw the people and have a nice honeymoon. The honeymoon was much better than I can imagine the wedding would have been.
I would recommend this to anyone and tell my daughter the same. I'd rather give her enough for a small family get together, a kick arse honeymoon and put a big chunk down on their first house than to drop it all on a wedding.
Did the same and couldn't agree more. I got lucky in that my wife didn't spend years planning a wedding and she doesn't like half her family.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:56 pm to Golfer
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Around $75k if you include the rehearsal dinner.
This is so depressing for me to think about.
And I actually make pretty good money for my age. Hopefully majority of that was on FiL's tab.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:59 pm to Kujo
think our actual wedding was about $35k (didnt pay for it)
rehearsal dinner was probably about $10k (didnt pay for it either)
rehearsal dinner was probably about $10k (didnt pay for it either)
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:00 pm to Kujo
25k. Couple weeks after I proposed her dad pulled me aside and handed me a check for 15k. Said if I can convince her to go to the courthouse then the money is ours. He'd rather give us that and save 10k than pay it out for the wedding.
Guess who wasn't 15k richer?
It was a helluva party but who the hell turns down 15k!?
Guess who wasn't 15k richer?
It was a helluva party but who the hell turns down 15k!?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:00 pm to Kujo
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And in hind-sight, do you both still feel it was worth it, or wish you spent more?
I didn't spend anything. My wife's mom paid for the wedding. As to what she spent, I have no idea. I do know she got this place for the day....
Carraway-Davie House
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:01 pm to STLhog
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And I actually make pretty good money for my age. Hopefully majority of that was on FiL's tab.
Parents and inlaws. We paid for most of our honeymoon, wedding party gifts, and our suite the night of the wedding.
We also invited 625 people and had 450 attend. Rehearsal dinner had 120 at it. All things considered it was a modest event in terms of location, etc. but just had a lot of people.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:01 pm to Kujo
$2.5M
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