wedding

[skyhightree1]

Ok yall I am my cousins best man in his wedding tomorrow and we are like brothers and we were doing the rehearsal tonight and its in this big fancy hotel with everything you probably could ask for in a wedding 150 people on the guest list. open bar all night your plates are custom cooked dj dance floor even a casino night after the reception. I said man that girls parents dont bs around do they.. he said umm.. we are paying for the wedding... I said wow well umm...ok I thought the daughters parents were always to pay for the wedding but I guess not. My question is am I wrong do the couples pay for the weddings these days or is it still supposed to be the parents? I saw what he paid for the wedding and by the time my daughters ready to marry it will probably double.

 

[Craig Miller]

I think it depends on the situation. What i mean is if her parents got the money they pay for it. If they aint then the couples are paying with a little help from the parents of both sides.

 

[greybeard]

Traditionally, the bride's parents pay for the wedding, since it is the girl that wants all the expensive crap anyway, but if the bride's parents don't care for the groom, they don't pay for it.

 

[Commercialfarmer]

Probably depends on how sensible the parents are and how ridiculous the bride is. If couples spent half as much effort on the actual marriage as most do on the wedding, more might stick the first go around. I've seen too many instances where the lady is in love with the idea of a BIG wedding, and the guy is running in second place.

 

[highgrit]

I have always heard that the bride's family pays for the wedding. But that's not writing in stone. These girls and guys now a days are getting crazy for their weddings. My Dad always said big weddings end up with big troubles. Good Luck and best wishes to your cuz and his bride to be.

 

[Bigfoot]

We paid for ours. It's been 20 years or so. Dress and everything was about $4000. I thought that was rediculous. Still do kinda.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

We paid for ours when my wife and I got married seven years ago. Cost us less than $3,000, but we kept is short and simple. I cannot understand why people have extravent weddings unless you are very rich. There are many things that two young people starting out could use $30,000 for. A 30 min ceromony that is going to take years to pay for is at the bottem at my list. What came after the wedding is what was important to my wife and I (not just the honeymood either ;-) ).

 

[Craig Miller]

9 years ago yesterday my wife and I paid for ours. All it cost was taking the preacher to dinner after we said our vows in his living room.

 

[TexasBred]

Traditionally, the bride's parents pay for the wedding, since it is the girl that wants all the expensive crap anyway, but if the bride's parents don't care for the groom, they don't pay for it.

That's when you go to the JP and forget all the frills. :nod:

 

[john250]

9 years ago yesterday my wife and I paid for ours. All it cost was taking the preacher to dinner after we said our vows in his living room.

As I read obits in the local paper I see a lot of folks were married in parsonages. Most 50+ years married. Not a bad way to start.

 

[cow pollinater]

I paid for our wedding. It was right around three grand. Two thousand of that was the dress that my mom and sister told my new bride she simply HAD to have... When I saw it and heard the rest of the plans that they had made for my checkbook I told my soon to be bride it would be in the front yard this weekend or not at all.
I rented a tux coat since she already had the dress and wore it with boots and wranglers and my sister and brother in law came up and other than that it was just us and my parents and the preacher. Afterwards we went to lunch and called it good. :lol:

 

[LLCFARMS]

Over the last 3 yrs both of our boys got married: We paid for the rehearsal dinner, the brides flowers and gave the kids $1000.00 to use on whatever they wanted to. The brides parents paid for the rest. One son's wedding was at a winery and was very nice and cost around $10,000 which included a 2 week honeymoon in Rome! The others was at our church and the kids waited and went on a cruise 4 months later.

As for me and hubby it cost us $30 28 yrs ago.

 

[skyhightree1]

ok everyone im back on c.t. It was a truly great wedding ... I had a ton of fun... we had good drinks... good food... good drinks... good music... good drinks... and did I mention good drinks lol I am sore today from dancing so much and feeling rough from drinking WAY too much. The food was great while we were talking saturday morning he showed me the wedding total and it was $57,000 I figured it wasn't cheap. My wedding we only paid for rehearsal hall and food and drinks everything else was on my wifes parents. I tell ya I haven't had that much fun in a long time kids too they were tired and wife. I was so sore and hung over wife drove home kids laughed as I groaned getting up on the tractor to bushhog and normally I love the vibration and sound of being on a big diesel... today was not one of those days.