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I paid for most of it myself. My dad gifted me $2000 which covered the venue and wedding photos. I had a pretty small and simple wedding.
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Cash. Hired a notary and baked a cake. Most expensive thing was the marriage lisence and DH's ring.
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Line of credit for us. It was paid off within the year.
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My parents gave us a cash gift which covered about 1/3 of the wedding. They also paid for DH's suit. Inlaws paid for flowers and rehearsal dinner. We saved and paid for the rest.
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We saved like crazy and paid for it all by ourselves (and bought our house at the same time!) our bank accounts went from $$$ to (nearly) $0 in 3 months flat
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I sold so many things on craigslist!
Our parents (especially mine) contributed - it was very important to my dad. But we also had an extremely small (14 people including us) and did things differently to save money, like getting married on a Wednesday!
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My parents paid for everything except the photographer which we insisted on paying for. My MIL paid for the rehearsal dinner.
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I didn't want a wedding, we went to court and had dim sum after. I really wanted to elope but our parents wanted us to at least go to court so they could be present. Our weeding was less than $100 as well.
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Our parents gave us some $ and we cash flowed the rest.
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My parents paid for it.
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My parents came to us after we got engaged and told us they would give us x amount. So we did it for that amount, lol.
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My parents and savings. About half each.
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Was less then $100 since we went to the courthouse, and we paid cash
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We got married courthouse style with just our immediate families and a celebratory lunch, so we paid cash, well, credit card that was paid off immediately.
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Our wedding was just us, so we only paid for the officiant and photographer. We did throw a fancy wedding dinner and a night's stay at a nearby hotel after we got back from our honeymoon. But it was only for immediate family, so it didn't cost so much. Everything was paid in cash.
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We paid for some and my parents paid for some
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We paid for some, but my parents paid for the majority of it.
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I sued my previous employer!! True story!
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We did all of the above.
My mom paid for everything related to the church (tips for the priest, organist, etc.) and the food at the reception. We paid for the rest.
DH worked out deals for a lot of it (he managed a bar so had relationship with liquor venders, linens, DJ, the band, etc.)
We paid cash for a lot of it and he charged a few things that are almost paid off (not quite 2 years married)
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My parents paid for it-- we were very grateful! DH's parents paid for the rehearsal dinner (and even worked together to plan it despite being divorced and having pretty much no contact for years-- a good example of putting aside their differences for their kid!)
@Cherrybee: I want to hear this story!
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We paid cash for the wedding/honeymoon and my parents and FIL split the rehersal dinner.
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Parents and cash.
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My parents mainly paid for our wedding. We did make a number of purchases on our own for it. Inlaws paid for the rehearsal dinner.
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It was split pretty evenly between us paying outright and my parents. Didn't mean to, but just worked out that way.
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My parents paid for about 15%, and we paid for the rest with cash. I was in college full time, so I had to work my little ass off. His parents paid for our flights for our honeymoon (such a surprise and a big blessing)!
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50% parents, 50% cash from savings.
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My parents paid for the reception (just the space and food/drink package), IL's paid for rehearsal dinner, and we paid cash for everything else (dj, photography, florist, honeymoon, etc.)
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We paid for our wedding ourselves, in cash.
I was definitely not interested in taking out a loan to pay for a party.
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Our parents paid for most things, but what they didn't we paid for item by item. Our wedding cost was about 15,000, but I think we only spent 4,000.
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my mom paid, but I was very frugal with the planning which she was grateful for!
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DH and I mostly paid for it in cash but our parents helped out too.
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My parents paid for the entire thing, which was incredibly generous considering it was not a low-budget wedding and we had over 350 guests. Otherwise, we would have had to elope because DH and I were fresh out of college with hardly a dime to our names!
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Dad and mom chipped in about 10 percent and we paid the other 90.
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We paid 50%, my parents paid 50% and my in-laws paid for the rehearsal dinner. All cash.
We could have paid for the whole thing had my mom not insisted we invite 400 people, but she was offering to pay for half of it, so there were things like that where I let her have what she wanted vs what I wanted.
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My parents paid for the $25K reception in cash (plus flew in 10 guests from Taiwan!), and my dress. We paid maybe $18K for all the other stuff, photo, video, flowers, decor, etc.
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I voted CC, but we payed for it ourselves and had the money saved, we wanted the points.
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Our parents contributed some and we paid for the rest in cash. No debt for this girl.
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We did a combo of ourselves, my parents and ILs. Had the cash to do it but I got a rewards credit card specifically for the wedding. I paid it off each month so we ended up with $0 wedding debt and got a nice dinner out with the rewards.
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We saved and paid cash for most of it but we also have parents give us some $$ for some things.
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Our parents split the cost 50/50, and we contibuted some for "extras" we wanted but didn't think our parents needed to pay .
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