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My FH parents are giving us $1000, we are taking a loan out for 3-4 thousand and my parents are giving us 2-3 thousand..We won't know for sure how much we need for the loan until we have all of our vendors picked out but that is pretty much the gist of who's giving how much. Oh and my mom is paying for my dress, which her limit is no more than $1000.

Doing all but the flowers ourselves. His parents offered to cover the flowers, and we're considering that a gift from them... it was an unasked for/unexpected offer. Doing it ourselves is partly necessity (my parents aren't able to contribute), but mostly choice. We like our independence. ;)

my dads giving us $1000 my mom might do the same

We have to pay for every single penny of it. And I've suggested we take out a loan, but my FH says he doesn't want to begin our married life already in debt. So we're just setting aside $400 a week, and we're going to just do a little bit at a time.

We are paying for it. This is my second wedding. My parents paid for the first one. I would not dream of asking them for help. My FH is going to give us a nice cash gift to help. Im not sure how much. We are not considering the gift in our budget. Any amount would be a bonus.

FH and I are on are own for paying for the wedding. Lucky for me FH must of known he'd meet me one day and I'd fall in love and want to get married...so he saved up money and me not so much. He's picking about about 70 percent of the cost...basically he's paying for the whole reception and everything else I'm handling.

I guess I am one of the lucky ones. We never asked and would have been happy to finance things ourselves. My parents are divorced and are contributing different amounts. His parents are so generous and have the resources that they would pay for anything we asked them to, but we're going to try to save their help for the honeymoon. FH's sister-in-law is a professional photographer and his mom is doing most of our flowers home grown on his grandma's farm. There are things we wanted to do ourselves, I am paying for everything I wear and FH wants to take care of the alcohol...see where his priorities are ;) One thing that comes with the help is more opinions, I have a much larger guest list than I originally wanted but am so thankful for all the help.

Good luck to everyone with finance, probably the most difficult part of planning is the budget. Even with help I HATED that part.

we are paying for it!
FFIL is paying for the rehearsal dinner tho

My fiance and I are paying for it all. My dad lost his job around a year ago, but he still thought he'd have to pay for the wedding. We obviously told him not to worry about it and that we'd handle the costs.

I am blessed to have my parents, FH parents, and me and FH all split the bill. FH's parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner as well as the beer/soda/champagne/wine at the reception. My parents are paying for just about everything else. FH and I are paying for extra things we'd like that are not necessary, and gifts for the wedding party and our parents, wedding rings, and honeymoon. Like Morgan, we would have been happy to pay for our own wedding, but both sets of parents have the resources and offered their help. I am the only daughter, and my parents are pretty traditional in thinking that the bride's parents should pay for the wedding. We are planning on getting our parents big gifts showing our immense appreciation after the wedding!

My parents made a large contribution towards my first wedding so this time I wouldn't even think about asking for help. They did offer their timeshare points which is what I was hoping they'd do and that is covering our lodging for half of our honeymoon. His dad gave us $1000 and his mom gave us a couple hundred towards our honeymoon registry. I sold my motorcycle and have been saving up what I can. He's financing what he needs to and then will pay that off in a few months when his townhouse sells. I hate to have debt from this but it'll be a small amount for a small period of time.

All along I was planning on paying for everything myself. Then my FMIL informed me that they want to pay for the reception part of it. I know that my dad can't chip in at all, and I don't want to even ask him to. I would rather pay for things myself. About a month or so ago my FFIL won a state lottery so now they are paying for a lot of the wedding. I guess I am just blessed to be marrying into such a kind family :)

Every single thing from my gown & reception right down to the rehersal dinner and flowers are being paid by my FH and myself. My family and I don'tbother and his really can'tso we are doing it, no worries, feels good actually and the great thing about it is, NOONE has a say, our way only :) lol

We are paying some and our families paying the rest which was completely unexpected. My parents decided they wanted to pay for most of it because we had already spent approx 10000 in flights, phone calls and visa costs to get my fiance visa. His parents said they were putting in 2500 because they had paid for his brothers wedding and wanted to help us as well. Its been wonderful to have the help and support of our families after the six month visa process.

my mom & dad (divorced) are going to be chipping in and we will be supporting the rest... i feel lucky to have their contributions. makes it so that i can save half the time for the wedding and the other half can go to the house saings. the perks of living with his parrents... no rent and lots of savings!

I am very lucky and my parents paid for the whole thing. I did find lots of things online and purchased things here and there myself. But my Mom paid for 99.9% of it. And my husband's parents paid for the rehearsal dinner.

@ southergirl: you sold your motorcycle?! Oh God, that's so sad!!! *hug* I couldn't dream of selling mine, or of asking Stephen to sell his. I suppose it's for the greater good, but my heart breaks for ya.

i know your pain.. me and my fiance are alone on this one too! we will not be getting married in march any more as we have come to realize that we will not be able to afford it!
Good luck!!

we didn't get a single penny from ANYONE for our wedding....but we were happy it was that way because it truly was OURS and we didn't have anyone holding money over our heads, deciding things for us like I see happen to so many other brides.