Independent couples out there?!

My fiance and I are also covering the cost of our entire wedding ourselves.

View Quoted Comment Okay cool. I guess both of us are pretty rare :-)

We are also paying ourselves

We paid for our wedding on our own. We also kept it all under $5,000 total.

We are paying ourselves as well! We opted for a long engagement to save for our dream wedding so we are paying cash for everything

My fiancé and I are paying for the entire wedding and honeymoon ourselves.

We paid for the whole Wedding, $15,000 budget. But our families brought their kids. A "destination " wedding in the catskills so everyone could drive between our families, not 6-8 hour drive or fly for about 70 of the people no matter whose house.
We did not have kids under 15 at the wedding. So we planned a cookout for any friends of family who stayed. 170 adults and 167 under 15 plus 15 tiny babies. We had budgeted $4000, and no honeymoon. But several of FI family are provisioners, or wine business, any my family brought caribou and
bought bread and rolls. So in the end we used leftover alcohol and beverages we already bought for the weather. but a couple nice wines , his family, a keg keg mine. The families really paid most of the cookout in donations. We only paid about $500. And my parents and his paid rooms at the Inn for any with little babies, near their grandparents etc. We had no rehearsal dinner. So we did wedding, I treated my ladies and he his guys to bachelorette weekend. And parents paid rooms for family who could not come, and the second day cookout. Oh, and we did a night before wedding meal for those already there Fri night. I only know a few people whose parents paid for their whole weddings, in a lifetime. All rich, or else kids had home weddings. Everyone else pays themselves, with single items like a dress, or liquor, from parents.

My brother's father helped us with flowers and my mom took it upon herself to gift us a honeymoon. Other than that, we're paying everything else ourselves.

View Quoted Comment Oh nice! Good for you. Many of our vendors wont accept cash so we are paying on our debt cards, but still no debt. Yayy

View Quoted Comment Good for you. Best wishes on your new marriage

My partner and I paid for our own wedding.

Maybe this is regional, but I know way more than 1 in 10 couples who paid for their own weddings (I realize anecdote does not equal data). I wonder if The Knot's survey results look like that because their respondents are self selected for people who had big, "traditional" weddings, which tend to have more parental involvement than my own wedding and the weddings of many people I know. Interesting stuff, for sure.

We are in the same boat! It's a little stressful but I think we will be happy that we did it all on our own! Best of luck!

We are paying for the majority of our wedding ourselves. We didn’t ask our parents to contribute in any way, but my mother had an issue with the original (free) officiant I wanted for our ceremony. I appeased her by getting a different one (which will cost $400), so she did offer to pay that expense. She also really wanted to purchase my wedding dress for me.

View Quoted Comment I'm not sure. Maybe it's because ppl are telling you that they paid for the entire wedding when perhaps someone gifted them something minor such as a tie or one bouquet.
I do think you make a valid point, I bet courthouse weddings and other non traditionals may have not been included in this statistic.

We are planning on paying for our wedding ALL on our own... budgeting at $5,000 total.

View Quoted Comment Right! No taking orders or suggestions from others since they are not paying. Lol

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Right no suggestions needed unless asked for lol!

View Quoted Comment Ok that was nice of her. No way could I let my parents pay for my dress, they would choose something I don't like. Lol

View Quoted Comment Nice! Good for you. Much luck to you.

View Quoted Comment Yes! This is exactly why we have chosen to pay for things ourselves – didn’t want to take the risk of money coming with strings!