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MoneyIsTheRoot said:

Oppps forgot to add the guest list is between 250-275 people attending.

Nothing to be embarrassed about – it's your wedding.  After all is said and done my honeymoon could cost more than the wedding – and I dont care one bit. 

Ours cost about $10k in 2004. It was a destination wedding and all guests came for the weekend; we provided meals for three days for 50 and activities with this budget. My parents paid about a third, his mom paid for a small portion, and we paid about half ourselves. 

It doesn't include the rings and we didn't have a honeymoon.

My husband and I eloped, so I am not sure if that counts, but we only spent a few hundred dollars. We've been married almost eleven years. Not one regret about eloping.

That included the "ceremony" at the clerk of courts and the marriage license. We wore our normal clothes and we didn't even have rings. Later my husband purchased a ring for himself. I am still ring-less, but I plan to get something at some point soon. 

We put together our wedding in three weeks. I think it cost about $2,500, if that, and my parents paid for it all. I paid for my wedding dress ($40 and I LOVED it), we got married in the courthouse (our brother in law paid for the marriage license), and we had the reception in my parents' backyard. We had live music, and the food was a mix of catered and homemade. We only had about 50 people.

I really REALLY wanted to have a big wedding, but I don't think that will ever happen at this point. I also know I'm the kind of person who gets stressed out about the planning and the cost, so I think it was meant to be this way.

I was one of those "I want a small wedding" people, my wife agreed.  Part of our plan in having the small wedding is to have it out of town, so we decided on vegas, but we wanted it to be a bit nicer, so we picked Caesar's Palace.   Long story short, our wedding cost about $15,000.  We invited less people (40 attended) than we would have if we had it local (approx 200 would have attended) but vegas weddings are expensive, and the meal was twice the price it would have been at home.  I am still happy with our wedding, especially after hearing some of my close friends spent close to $40,000 on a wedding.  I can't imagine spending that much on one day of your life, even if it is the most important day.

It's very tough to swallow spending so much on one day – it really kinda bugs me, but on the other hand, I want to have a good time. 

We just got married in October!

I wanted a small wedding and did a lot of DIY stuff. In the end it cost us $6,000 for the wedding and a second smaller reception for friends and family who couldn't come to the location of the wedding. We saved and paid cash for it so I felt really good about staying with what we could afford and I think it was still a pretty great wedding.

My wedding was about $7,000 (but when you think that everything here is way more expensive than the USA, like up to 4x more I think I did ok). My wedding was very cheap by Aussie standards. The average wedding cost here is $30,000 – $40,000 apparently. My parents put like $5k to it and we paid the other $2k. Plus there are some Tongan traditions which were done at the wedding (dances where ppl give money), so we got $3k from that, which you could say bought the total of my wedding cost to $4k.

Most expensive wedding was in the vicinity of $75,000 years ago.

I know of a few weddings I have coming up that will be in the $50K plus range. 

2 of my sisters did their weddings for $1k ea.

Ours was about $3k. We got married 2 weeks after college graduation, so there wasn't anything else to really work with. Overall, I'm glad we didn't spend more! Our biggest one expense was the venue + food. Next up was my photographer.

From what I recall our wedding and engagement party was about $3500, shared between parents and family. We rented a park and rec center for the engagement party and did a come one come all with costco appetizers because we knew we wanted a small wedding and the engagement party was about 250+ people.

Our wedding was close family and friends only, about 90 people. We had it at my Aunt's house, most of the decorations were from Dollar Store and Big Lots. It was an afternoon wedding and we did a deli style buffet. Our mothers and a could Aunts have "famous" salads that everyone requests at reunions so we asked them to make them. We had so much food left over.

My dress was only $180 because it wasn't labeled as a wedding dress and all my jewelry was vintage inherited from my great-grandparents with the exception of some earrings I bought.

It actually cost more than we wanted it to. We wanted to "elope" but since my father passed away it was apparently very important to my family that they gave us a special day and we couldn't say no.