did your family help with wedding expenses

that was a very beautiful wedding. i myself had a similar experience with my ceremony at the beach.we only had three people there. afterwards we had a small gathering for a reception. we did it all ourselves. we didn't want a big fussy traditional wedding ceremony.

Our parents paid for a lot of it, but then, we had a small modest one.

There are times that some of the families offer help for their son or daughter marriage and here in my place that was ordinarily happened. When i got married i didnt seek help from my parents because i know that my future husband has the responsibility to do finance our wedding. Now that was ordinary to some families. Well we have an options to help or to accept help from parents. But the best thing is better to prepare things before to settle a wedding so that no one will disturbed, and i feel that it is more good to give a surprised.

When Tom and I got married almost nine years ago, we paid for almost everything ourselves. I mean my mother did help out a little bit in that she paid for some of the food for the reception and she also bought our cake for us as well. However, that was all that she was able to contribute. My in-laws didn't contribute anything to the expenses of our wedding, however their wedding gift to the two of us was an almost all expenses paid trip to Miami for our honeymoon so I'm not complaining at all.

When Randy and I got married almost 6 years ago (it will be in August) we paid for our wedding. We had a joint savings account where we both put money into. He put in 25.00 a month minimum and I did the same. We also put in our spare change that we wrapped up each week as well as any extra money we had left over after paying our bills. We did not do a big wedding either. We got married at a local park and had a barbeque reception in the backyard. We had a total of 12 people at our wedding. I made all my own bouquets, boutineers for the men, my center pieces and my wedding favors. The only thing we bought were the corsages because Randy's mom had passed away and we ran out of time to make the corsages. I only bought three (one for me, one for my mom and one for my grandmother).

sometimes family on the guy side need to help their son on wedding expenses. mostly this are their traditions inside the family to help one another.

When my husband and I got married we both had extra jobs in order to save up the money for the wedding. When the day arrived we had enough money to pay for everything, but my parents told us that they would like buy the wedding cake and pay for the coffee that we had between the ceremony and the dinner in the evening. They would have been hurt if we had refused to to let them pay, so we accepted their offer and they picked out the wedding cake and made a reservation in a small restaurant where we had coffee and wedding cake.

I'm just planning the wedding, but I'd never accept any money from any of parents. Firstly, I can do it myself. Secondly, I don't want any of them trying to alter my plans just because "well, I've put money in it, I have a right to make decisions", which, I believe (from what I kn ow of them) both my parents and my fiancé's mother is prone to do. My fiancé's mother wants us to only have a simple dinner at a restaurant after the wedding, with nothing reception-like. OK, I'm not too posh, but if we're going to have a reception, it's just so bland if we arrive at a restaurant, and, everyone, order what you want... without any music, any dancing, any decoration. My mother, for example, would freak out at the color combination I have in mind (it's not too crazy, it's peach with greyish blue, but she opposes anything which is not just cream and brown)...

Web hubby and I decided to get married, we paid for everything. W never asked nor accepted any help from our family or friends. W paid for the licenses and paperwork, the venue, the reception, our clothes and the rings, invitations, everything! Before that, we made sure that we are well able to pay for our own wedding. We want to start our marriage that way and to show everyone that we are doing just fine so there's no need for them to worry.

Got married 13 years ago and my parents did not help me financially in pushing through the marriage. But my husband and I did not mind because knowing our family's financial background, we just could not expect from them. Good thing because at that time we were both ready in every aspect and we had a very wonderful wedding. We were very proud of it because we put all our savings together and we did not bother any people, friends or family and relatives to give their share.