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re: Married OTers: How much did your wedding cost and did you stay out of debt?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:14 am to PurpGold 14-0
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:14 am to PurpGold 14-0
You don't even want to know. My wedding was in NYC. From some of the posts, my wife's dress was more than some people's entire wedding. 
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:16 am to PurpGold 14-0
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Part of the reason we are doing it in Hawai'i is to get away from the family members I don't like in Florida and the family members she doesn't like in the Northeast.
Yeah that is a plus of a DW, you don't have to invite people out of obligation. You can just say you want to keep it a small close friends and immediate family type thing and people understand.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:17 am to PurpGold 14-0
My advice... Go to Justice of the peace and handle it there. Then have a reception for close friends and family. 
Ours was somewhere around 7K...
Ours was somewhere around 7K...
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:18 am to notiger1997
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Can't tell you how many people I know that had to borrow money just to pay for their token engagement ring.
If you have to borrow for the ring, you can't afford it.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:22 am to MSTiger33
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You don't even want to know. My wedding was in NYC
I have been to a few 100k+ weddings in NYC. Those same wedding would be about 50-60k in New Orleans.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:37 am to notiger1997
Less than $1000.
Married at a friend's home by judge. Had a party about 1 month later with live band (part of the New Leviathon Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra) in the new home we purchased. Spent the $ on downpaymet for home. Wedding and reception a waste of $, IMO. Still married, 33 years now.
Married at a friend's home by judge. Had a party about 1 month later with live band (part of the New Leviathon Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra) in the new home we purchased. Spent the $ on downpaymet for home. Wedding and reception a waste of $, IMO. Still married, 33 years now.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:40 am to PurpGold 14-0
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How much did your wedding cost
I don't know. Her parents paid for the wedding and mine paid for the rehearsal dinner.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:43 am to Salmon
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but if you want to cut some costs, alcohol is a big one
Brew the beer yourself... or have friends brew a beer instead of giving a gift.
We also have a free venue, so that's helping costs a lot.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:44 am to Isabelle
Im getting married soon and my girl is completely on board to elope to Hawaii or St Lucia. Realistically, we'd be looking at a $10-$15k wedding with the size of my family and the amount of alcohol my family drinks. We can probably get away with spending around $6k if we elope. To me, a big wedding seems like a complete waste of money. Id rather put the money we will save toward a down payment on a house or toward paying off her school loans.
Btw, her parents said they would only give us a grand or two--same with my parents. Both of our parents are encouraging us to elope.
Btw, her parents said they would only give us a grand or two--same with my parents. Both of our parents are encouraging us to elope.
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:44 am to PurpGold 14-0
Didn't pay for my wedding. My wife's uncle did try to convince my FIL to just give us 20k and not have a ceremony to "save (my FIL) money". So I guess a little upward of 20k. We got married in the church and had the reception at my inlaws house but it was bomb as frick so idk how much.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:46 am to notiger1997
30-40K all in?
In-laws paid the bil
In-laws paid the bil
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:52 am to PurpGold 14-0
About 11k. But the inlaws covered it, sooooo 
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:54 am to PurpGold 14-0
60k. Thanks paw in law
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:56 am to PurpGold 14-0
i am not sure of the exact cost because i had nothing to do with the planning. i do know that my father in law offered us 10K if we did not do the wedding. so i assume somewhere in the neighborhood.
this was 19 years ago though, and we had a fairly big wedding
this was 19 years ago though, and we had a fairly big wedding
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:57 am to LSUballs
In laws paying the bill, $30-35K
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:58 am to lsuhunt555
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Have no idea what mine cost. Inlaws paid that bill.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:02 am to PurpGold 14-0
$0 for the wedding as the inlaws paid; Spent $7K on the honeymoon
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:06 am to PurpGold 14-0
About $50k. We paid half, FIL paid the other half.
We stayed out of debt, and I am pretty sure he did too.
We stayed out of debt, and I am pretty sure he did too.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:27 am to MSTiger33
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my wife's dress was more than some people's entire wedding
So ridiculous. She wears the thing one damn time.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:29 am to PurpGold 14-0
I think our wedding came out to about 35k. In laws paid for it. It was a very good deal for getting all the stuff we did in NOLA. We had live band, buses for guests, the whole nine yards.
I recently went to a wedding that I know they spent upwards of 75k and I have no idea what the extra 40k was spent on compared to ours. It's amazing how much more money a girl is willing to spend to have stupid shite like raised monogramming on their napkins or something stupid like that which nobody notices.
I recently went to a wedding that I know they spent upwards of 75k and I have no idea what the extra 40k was spent on compared to ours. It's amazing how much more money a girl is willing to spend to have stupid shite like raised monogramming on their napkins or something stupid like that which nobody notices.
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