How Much Do Weddings

[grandmoon]

Cost these days ??

If the couple have been living together who pays ??

[alexander*beetle]

Yes, they asked for and got a thermo kitchen thingy from her mother, a garden shed from my brother. Don't know about his parents.   And they had one of the lists which you buy from at David Jones which I refuse to participate in. I got them a good quality kitchen knife $49 . They've been living together for 6 years. It was a nice wedding though. 

[Anonymous]

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@lal-au0 wrote:

the celebrant cost us about $400 a few years ago.

we didn't shop around though.

foolishly bought a $500 suit.

i guess you could get away with a total of $500 (including the celebrant) if you do a BYO.

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a byo wedding ???

i'd rather not have one at all 

[zanadoo_56]

My wedding was done on the cheap and it was fun.  You don't need to spend a fortune, especially when the money is in the thousands and thousands....and could be better spent on a house deposit.

[zanadoo_56]

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@alexander*beetle wrote:

My niece recently got married. My brother and his wife are divorced and remarried so she asked them to contribute $10,000 each and the groom's parents contributed $10,000. Apparantly they cost cut on everything so they would have enough for a 6 week honeymoon.  My brother and his ex are ropeable as they were happy to contribute to the wedding but not the lavish honeymoon.

They are staying in 5 star hotels and restaurants, have been shopping in designer stores and generally living the high life. Both of them, nephew and new wife, earn good money but felt their parents should pay for everything. They go overseas just about every year anyway so it's not like it was a once in a lifetime thing.

My brother only got told about the extent of the honeymoon on the day of the wedding so he's had time to seeth. My niece is lovely and has been spoit most of her life but this time she's pushed my brother just that teensy bit too far and I suspect daddy's little girl will be told a few home truths . Oh to be a fly on the wall. lol.  

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Wow.  I don't know your family and I'm not usually so nosy....but for that showdown I'd love to be a fly on the wall too.

[Anonymous]

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

My wedding was done on the cheap and it was fun.  You don't need to spend a fortune, especially when the money is in the thousands and thousands....and could be better spent on a house deposit.

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of course.  you can have an inexpensive

wedding - but  byo is just  tacky.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

my brother is an expert in paying for weddings. He's already paid for two full-on jobs for his daughter - that's right daughter. She has done the live-with-them-for-several-years-get-married-and-then-break-up-a-few-months-later thing TWICE. She is now living with another guy for 6 years and wants to get married. I wonder if he'll be stupid enough to pay for another one.

[opmania]

We got married just over 7 years ago

Both had been married before

For me it was 24 years between husbands

The first one scared me off but this one chased me

 Around for three years so I thought he's keen I had

better give him a chance

Our wedding all up cost around $8, 000

The ceremony was in a civic Park

Which cost nothing

We paid the celebrant $450 for a deluxe ceremony

By the time we deleted this and that it was more like 

A budget

But still lovely 

We hired a   local soccer Hall

Hired white table cloths and by the time we decorated

It looked great

Hubby used to be a mobile dj

So we already had smoke machines, strobe lights

Flashing  rope lights and a cd from every band 

Of The 80s & 90s

We hired a mobile caterer with a three course 

Ala carte meal 

Bought about $2000 worth of spirits and wine 

Over the year leading up to it

Was a memorable day on a shoe string

Every one had a great time and several people we 

Know have hired the samel Hall since

For christenings , engagements etc

So they must have enjoyed themselves

[zanadoo_56]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

My wedding was done on the cheap and it was fun.  You don't need to spend a fortune, especially when the money is in the thousands and thousands....and could be better spent on a house deposit.

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of course.  you can have an inexpensive

wedding - but  byo is just  tacky.

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Tacky is definitely in the eye of the beholder (my wedding wasn't BYO).

Remember that 4 brides on TV series.  Talk about tacky!  The money rolled but they never seemed to get value for money.  The reception food would be badly cooked or the cake WAS tacky and as for the dresses....they'd wear something that didn't suit them, or didn't fit well or it'd make them look like a giant meringue.  And it all cost a fortune.  Very tacky.

[i-need-a-martini]

Not sure how to do a wedding for $5000 unless it is a total DIY and there is no alcohol.

If you have a 100 people and food and drink is $200pp then there is $20,000 before you even get started.

Venue hire $5-10k. Cars $2k. Entertainment $2k. Flowers can cost $2-4k. Weddding cake can cost up to $2k. Dress up to $3-5k. Bridemaids $1k. Makeup for all $2k. Photography and video can be up to $3-6k. 

There goes $50,000+ before you even book the honeymoon.

[lurker172602]

The first thing you do is NOT mention the word wedding. I saw an article just recently where they got quotes for exactly the same catering, venue, hair & makeup, drinks, photography etc. One they said was for a birthday (I think), the other for a wedding. The wedding quotes were astronomically more expensive.
I'll see if I can find it again.