Are you paying for your own wedding?

We are a young(ish) couple 24/25 and we are paying for everything ourselves. Parents offered to pay for my dress and mother is throwing my bridal shower but 90% of the expenses will be out of pocket for my fiancé and I.

We're paying for most of our wedding and also our rehearsal dinner. My mom is paying for my dress and flowers.

We are both in our mid 20s and paying for it ourselves. Neither of our parents are in a position to offer financial help, so we weren’t expecting anything. They are supportive though and have offered to help in other ways.

I am 32 my FH is 31 we are getting married in 2022. We are paying for everything ourselves. I may have help paying for maybe my dress but that it about it.

From a parent's perspective, I gave my daughter $25,000 for her wedding. Why? Because many parents fund or help with college tuition. My daughter joined the Army for 6 years, earned her AA while in service and then went to a $40,000 year university for her BS using her GI Bill. I didn't pay a dime. So, I basically paid less than one year's college tuition for her wedding.

I'm 24, my husband's 27 and my grandpa offered to pay for our wedding. Because of this, I set a budget of $6k - my grandpa would've been more than happy to pay for a more extravagant wedding but I chose to budget as much as possible. I bought my dress, all of the decor, and paid for some other things. He paid for the larger deposits, food & beverages, photography, etc.

I am 20 years old and my fiancé is 26. This is also our first marriage but we are having to pay for also everything. I think it’s how your parents want to contribute to your big day. For my parents they want to do other things like our after party or decorations, but to pay for the venue they said it was up to us. His parents wanted to just pay for my dress and his suit because it was up to us to figure out how to pay for everything else.

My husband and I paid for everything ourselves. We're both in our late 20's. Everyone and every family is different through. Our family offered to help pay but my husband and I were lucky enough to be able to afford our entire wedding on our own.

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My fiancé and I had had friends asking who is paying for the wedding!! If we are having this or that. I would love them to pay for my wedding, but they are not obligated to pay for it.

We are paying for our wedding since we moved in together, we started to save money here and there so we will be paying 90% of the wedding, my parents offered to pay for the welcome party ( International wedding) and his family will pay for the liquor for the wedding.

Both our parents contributed some money towards the wedding, but I made sure that they didn't have an active part on dictating how I planned the wedding. However, my fiancee and I are definitely paying for the majority of this wedding.

My parents are giving us 5,000 to help.. but that’s it. They did it for my one sister, and they’re doing it for my other sister & I. As for my fiancé’s family, I have NO idea.. They tend to help out more than I would ever expect them to for everything, but I am incredibly grateful for it!

My fiancé & I are paying for everything.

One thing to always remember is that it's not the olden days anymore. Parents on either side are not obligated to pay for your big day. Unless the parents have a ton of money which then I could see why you would expect them to pay, it would not be right to expect your parents to pay for your wedding and them probably have to work overtime, retire late, get a loan, build up debt on their credit, or get a second mortgage on their house for you a grown adult to have a wedding. When kids become adults it's time for parents to take care of themselves and worry about their retirement and health. Obviously it's nice when they offer money to help you guys out for your big day, but don't expect it or be upset with them if they don't because they probably just can't do it. I know most parents would love to give their children the wedding of their dreams but financially they just can't afford to.

Yes we are paying for it our selves .

We are paying everything ourselves. I wanted it that way due to the fact i didn't want anyone having much opinions on what we decide to do for our wedding. My mother did pay for my wedding dress so now she feels the right to keep adding people and its people i don't even know ugh.