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To all those who got married, how much did you spend?

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$10,000 for a friggen ring! $20,000 for a friggen reception for 300 people? That's $66 per person and does she really expect all 300 people to show up?

I'd tell her to take a hike and a good practical economics class!

I think my wife and I spent $4500 total for everything. Our reception had about 100-150 people.
 
I'd start to rethink things over if my girlfriend started making requests for extraordinary things. That's surely a sign for future things to come. I'd think the house is more important hell if you live in Cali and wait another couple of years homes are going to be astronomical. Your girl is going to have to compromise with what you want too. If she doesn't you're in for hell of a ride if you get married.
 
Ok, if this girl is worth even close to the amount this wedding might cost you ....
Then I think we should see some PICS.
I don't normaly ask this, but I will make an exception. 😀
 
how much I spent? or was spent by all parties?

i spent ~$500
rented my tux and the tux for my best man
paid for the wedding night hotel/fancy dinner
oh, and if you count the rings, i guess add ~$1000 on top of that, for her engagement ring, wedding ring and my wedding ring

thats all i remember

my in laws paid for the reception in my wife's town and my parents paid for the reception in my town

i think people that aren't super rich that spend 10's of thousands on weddings are NUTS
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Originally posted by: SCSIfreek

Total cost from my pocket : $45K god damn!!!!

🙁 I aint getting married if this is for real....but I'll soon to find out

--Scsi
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dude, if you don't make > $100,000 a year, that is insane :Q

she needs to marry a rich dude or get realistic
 
Originally posted by: sheselectric
As a woman I understand the desire to spend a lot of money on a wedding but I think your g/f is going ove the top. $10,000 for an engagement ring? Something she's gonna wear for less than a year? That's ridiculous. I think you need to explain to her that you're thinking long-term about this, and that you two need to compromise on this. A lot of what she wants sounds like a waste of money.
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I thought most engagement rings were part of a set and worn all the time. 😕

Oh, and I think $10,000 is waaaaaaaay too much for a ring.
 
$3,000 for wedding and reception

wedding was at the little chapel in the woods and thew reception was held at a local large open room art gallery that we decorated ourselves.

140 invited, 102 showed up. we wanted to invite about 500 people, but our venue was a limiting factor. <<<--good idea

a lot of friends helped us out in ways we never imagined.


it was a fabulous wedding. you don't have to go cha-ching'n to get perfection.



 
Total was about 15k. Although her parents didn't pay much, we got plenty of $$ as gifts to cover things. 😀

ring: 3k
chapel and musicians: 1k
reception for 125: 3.5k
photography: 1.5k
dress: $500
honeymoon to Puerto Rico: $3.5k

can't remember the other costs, but there was a ton of 'this and that's'.
 
Well, if I would have gotten married next week 🙁 this is what the costs were:

Airfare to Bonaire: $3700
Hotel & accomodations for 10 days: $2000
Wedding ceremony costs: $600
Rings (inc. engagement): $5000
Misc spending: $3000

$14,300 total give or take.
 
Total was just under $10k including the rings($1800) and honeymoon($2800).

Her parents are by no means well off, so I paid for the rings and honeymoon, didn't even tell them the cost. My folks threw in a bit as well to help out.
 
Originally posted by: sheselectric
$10,000 for an engagement ring? Something she's gonna wear for less than a year?
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My wife is still wearing her engagement ring. It's a part of her wedding ring now. I thought that's how most of them are now-a-days?
 
10K for a ring? wow!

I always figured if I ever got married I'd spend < $15 K (future value) for everything and that is most likely not for another 6 years.
 
I've been to weddings that were as high as 50k and weddings that ending up being a few hundred bucks (including the ring). I've got to say, the less people have spent, the happier their wedding day was and the happier their marriage has been. There will always be exceptions to the rule, but I've never seen the need to spend so much money on one day. The more you spend, the more likely you are to be more stressed. The more stressed you are, the more you drink on that one day. The more you drink that day, the less chance you have on actually having sex on your wedding day (not that you haven't had sex before that, but that's not the point) A marriage is about love and compromise, and by letting your girlfriend dictate how much a wedding should cost, or how big it should be without your input, then you're off to a bad start.

Talk to her. Try to find a middle ground. Maybe you can get her a 1 carat ring with slightly lower quality (still unnoticable to the untrained eye) for less that 3k. I don't think spending 5k on a trip to Europe is too bad, but you'll have to work on bringing the cost down of the actual wedding. You probably will end up regretting it after.
 
$35 for a justice of the peace in Las Vegas. No entourage, no friends, no family and no party seekers, just the two of us.

The wedding band for my wife cost $48 at a discount store when we got back to L.A. the next day (gotta have some fun). I have never and will never wear a wedding ring or any other jewelry. I don't even wear a wrist watch. Never have.

We have been married 29years, 9 months and 3 days. My sister is throwing us a 30th anniversary party in a few months. All of our friends, relatives, acquaintences etc. will be there because we have been the rock that all of them have leaned on when they have had problems.

We are thinking about going on our honeymoon next year.

 
I'm with HappyPuppy and the other guy who said the cheaper wedding usually turn out better in the long run. Well at least you know the girl isn't high maintenance, demanding and marrying you for money. I know one of my college buddies got married in Vegas and he's extremely happy and one who's has moved away to live with her and saving every penny for the big day (his tone of voice implies to me he isn't too happy).
 
I spent $5,000 for a ring, $2,000 for a honeymoon and my in-laws spent about $18,000 for the wedding (thats what they are for)!!!


But, like Electric Amish, I've been paying every day since!😀
 
thanks for the replys everyone. I'm seriously thinking about this issue. Last night, I had a little chat with her and discussed some of the issues i have. I told her a house in North California normally cost 500K...etc.... Finally, we both agreed to budget our wedding now 🙂 hopefully it'll atleast cut some of the cost.


--Scsi
 
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