Are you paying for your own wedding?

My parents gave me money but i didn’t want to use it. So me and my Fh is paying for everything

We are paying it for it ourselves. 😊

We are paying majority of our wedding my mom is helping a lil and so is my fmil. But everything else we are paying for because my mother and future mother-in-law are throwing me a nice bridal shower

We paid for the majority of it ourselves, but our parents did help out a bit. Like my mom paid for my musicians, my dad paid for my dress, and his parents paid for the rehearsal dinner.

We paid for ours ourselves

My boyfriend and i are planning on paying for it all ourselves, but have a $5k budget so we dont go into debt over one day

I'm paying for 80% of my wedding, which includes a reherasal dinner/ceremony/reception in Chicago and a second "reception" in my fiance's small town in Spain a month later. I'll be just shy of 31 when I get married. But I'm pretty sure most of my friends who got married in their early 20s had their weddings paid for by their families, considering none of us had any money right after college!

We paid for just about everything ourselves. 2 people contribute towards the band and my mom let me skip my car insurance bill one month (lol) I am in my early 20s, but my husband is 30.

In this day and age, more couples pay for their own than those who don't. Even if we had to elope and just send announcements (no party), then we would pay for it ourselves no matter what.

We went into planning assuming we would be paying for everything. Once planning out underway and we started making decisions on vendors, etc., my parents surprised us by graciously offering to pay for certain items.

We paid for a majority of it ourselves. My mom bought my dress and his mom paid for our rehearsal dinner otherwise we paid for everything. We are both in ours twenties.

We are paying for our wedding. We are both in our 20s. As you mentioned, no one really offered per se. However, my mom and stepdad did buy my dress, my mom has helped purchase a lot of decorations, and paid and cooked for the bridal shower. My fiance's mom wants to help us by buying the cake.


I think it's pretty normal for individuals to pay for their own wedding nowadays. If family members can fund or help with the costs that's amazing. I feel that the family of the bride doesn't pay for the wedding anymore like in the past.

We're paying ourselves. Fiance and I are mid twenties. It just really depends. The extra help is always nice though lol. No one offered for us but my mom wanted to pay for our honeymoon so that's one less thing we'll have to worry about

My parents gave us $5K, his parents did absolutely nothing. So, basically, we are paying for it ourselves.

When we eloped at 18 & 23 years old, it was all donated or borrowed. All means the minimum flowers were donated by previous wedding before us. I didn’t even know I would have a bouquet even though it was from previous bride that morning. My simple dress was a super cheap kids communion dress made bigger for my pregnant belly. Again, it was donated and I didn’t choose or expect any. Super simple wedding bands was a gift from dh’s older brother. I didn’t see it before the blessing at a tiny chapel at all. I didn’t even expect a ring. Dh’s aunt took me to a cheap mua near by, I remember it was $30 for hair in make up. It was in Southeast Asia in 1998 mind you. I didn’t expect any of those, and was thinking to go to with my street clothing. Everything was not my taste at all. But it was not my place to be picky. It was better than nothing. That’s it, I had nothing else special on my elopement because we were young and had no money.


As you see, I didn’t say anything when someone else pay anything my elopement. Thank you was the only thing comes out of my mouth.
Now we are planning an intimate destination wedding, on our 25th anniversary. We are in our early 40s. We are proud, very proud, to choose things we want and pay everything with our saving.
In my opinion, not every parents are planning or have saving to pay their kid’s wedding. Some parents are working hard to save for their own retirement and I respect that.
If your parents would like to pay anything, they would offer you in the first place. I would never dare to ask parents to pay for my “luxury”. Yes, a wedding is a luxury to me. Not when I was 18, not now, and would never ask anyone to chip in for my wedding. There’s my 2cents, but that’s just me 🤷🏻‍♀️

We're in our early 30s and paid for the majority of the wedding ourselves. That being said, our parents did give us generous monetary gifts during the planning period to help with costs, but we never asked them to do so.

My fiance and I are paying for our wedding completely on our own.

When my fiance and I get married we will be both in mid and early 30s and we are paying it for our selves

We are paying for everything ourselves. I'm in my late 20s and FH is in his early 40s.

Each family is different but if it is the first marriage, I don't assume age would have anything to do with whether a family wants to financially assist or not?

I'm 23, FH is 29 and we are paying for 1/4 of our wedding. My parents are paying for half and his parents are paying the other 1/4. This is because our parents want us to have a beautiful day, and have also invited quite a number of people to the wedding!