Ten guests in Hawaii on a private estate...venue on the water (got to enjoy it all afternoon and night), with planner, photographer, makeup and hair, dinner and apps and cake, guitar player, flowers and officiant I think was $10k. Our group isn’t a big drinking group, so we brought wine from the store. My dress…

Congratulations on the upcoming wedding! I got married almost a year ago now and I’ll never forget how shocked I was at how expensive everything was. I’m a bit of a DIY-er and love a bargain, so my favorite tidbit to share is that the Costco website has wedding flower sets that they deliver to you, pre-arranged. A…

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Weighting in to represent massive weddings: 300 people, 30k. Had it at a convention center, buffet to accommodate many pallets, full open bar. Our parents each paid about 1/3 and we got an unexpected windfall that paid for the rest. So luck had a lot to do with paying for it tbh. (The husband is Indian, it’s either…

I got married for about $2500 in 2003. We chose a December date so the church and reception venue were already decorated. We had our reception in a very old historic house that we rented for $600 for three stories, including a ballroom. The city owns the house and had had a competition the week before between interior…

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Most of the costs were booze and food, as two people dining at that restaurant will easily rack up a $120 bill. Our family also unfortunately enjoys expensive scotch.

I don’t like wedding planning much, and at the time I was a research assistant and my now-husband was in law school. We’d been engaged for five years with no wedding planning, and then in October we decided to get married in early December that year on a date significant to us (not for pregnancy ;).

I’m from a family of literally 30 cousins (mom is one of 8). My husband has 2. For us it was have a bigger wedding or don’t have one. I can honestly say I wanted my whole family there because they’re lovely and they dance all night. Don’t worry about lopsided if you all are going to get along and have fun. If you can…

My partner and i initially eloped in Vegas ($200) and then saved money for two years to have a reception. Our reception was in a dinner theater where you got married on stage and then everyone was already seated for dinner. I never had the urge to be involved with every little detail and just wanted people to eat and…

Mine cost a total of 2000€ we were 18 people, open bar, nice venue. Got married on a Tuesday in June in the local town hall, everyone wore black and white and we had a blast!

YAS! My partner and I have always had “light” convos about what our wedding will be like, but all the sudden I’m on 100 effing wedding blogs, browsing BHLDN, and crying at strangers’ overdone wedding videos. What am I becoming...

Ours was around 7K. One of my friends told me that the only thing people remember is your dress and the cake. My sister picked my dress and it was beautiful (and relatively inexpensive) and our cake was the BEST. Chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache filling and whipped cream icing. SO AMAZING. To save money we…

My husband and I eloped. My dress was $40. I did spend money on having my hair done professionally. We took the people who came witness the event to lunch. We have huge famlies and have lived all over the country. We did it how we wanted to and spent the money on an awesome trip to Hawaii.

I also got a JCrew wedding dress for $150 on eBay and it was like my favorite thing about my wedding!! I will forever be secretly ashamed that a lot of my.wedding wasn’t what I wanted or hoped it would be but hey, at least I liked my dress.

Ours was around $15K (SoCal area) but my family paid for it. There were quite a few things I didn’t care about, but they really wanted to do, and since they were paying for it.. eh, sure we can do a breakfast the next morning (and they also paid for some of our family’s hotel rooms). We only had about 60 people, but…

We are not religious at all, so did a courthouse wedding with immediate family only. Had a big party (reception) about 6 weeks later. 100 or so people. My husband has a big family, I have a small family, but have more friends and co workers. We invited them all...put a strict limit on number of people our parents…

I know that feeling when it comes to having a large family. We could hardly afford to invite any friends, but we had 110 guests. When I showed my fiancé the guest list, he said, “Who are all these people?!” “Your new family,” I told him. And that was the short list!

I also have 47966 cousins who I grew up with and my husband has 4 that he had only met 3 times in his whole life so it was just lopsided but I couldn’t not invite mine, we are all super close. I specifically asked my cousins to be nice to his and include them so they all ended up hanging out together. But I am Indian…

My wedding was 15k, but a full 5 of that was alcohol and my dad paid for that because I refused. We had it at a hotel on the harbour in Victoria, BC. It wasn’t crazy expensive for a venue, but not overly cheap either. I think 6k for all of that including food and ceremony/reception space. My dress was cheap AF (my mum…