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Mrs. Spring
Master April 2021

The Piggy Bank

Mrs. Spring, on September 14, 2020 at 9:23 PM

Posted in Planning 97

According to CNBC, the average wedding in 2019 costed $33,900! If any of you feel comfortable sharing, where is all your funding coming from? Parents? Gradparents? In laws? Loans? Credit card? Direct savings? My FH and I are paying for everything by ourselves. None if our family offered to help us...
According to CNBC, the average wedding in 2019 costed $33,900!
If any of you feel comfortable sharing, where is all your funding coming from? Parents? Gradparents? In laws? Loans? Credit card? Direct savings? My FH and I are paying for everything by ourselves. None if our family offered to help us with planning, organizing or financially. I didn't expect it, nor would I accept any of their money; but it would have been tiuching if they had offered.cfb_2x_1425203.jpg

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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Very good and smart idea. You go girl! No debt!!!!
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Okay. Thanks for sharing. Yes, according to statistics, the grooms family offers very little or nothing at all.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Oh cool. That was very nice of her.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Oh Wow. This would be the ideal set up. Good for you!
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Im in cincinnati, Oh. The average wedding here is about $21,000 including the reception and engagement rings.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Nice of your parents to contribute. My FH and I will be paying for everything on our own.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Wow, what an accomplishment! Good for you and that was very generous of your father.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Very Nice. You are blessed to have such a contributing family.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Wow, that was geneous of your dad and step mom. Thanks for clarifying on the statistics.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Okay that is a smart plan. Good for you!
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Oh my goodness. Thanks for sharing. That is different compared to the states.
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  • mrswinteriscoming
    VIP December 2021
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    Haha yes definitely a different culture. I know that a lot of American users have BLASTED me for having a wishing well saying it’s ‘against etiquette’ but here they’re very common, as is parents contributing to the wedding in the Russian culture.
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    My dad just retired from over 30 years in the military. If we would have gotten married before he retired we would have done something much more intimate from the start. Because he was in the military he didn’t save a college friend for us (GI bill would pay for his kids college) instead he set money aside for weddings, if we ended up wanting to further our education past a bachelors degree, he would’ve given us the money that he saved for weddings to go towards whatever our G.I. Bill would not cover
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    Master July 2019
    Hannah Online ·
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    Yes, it was! We are both the 1st to get married in our families, so I think they were very excited about the idea lol.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Nice! My dad was dumb and retired from the military one year before the GI bill was able to be used for personnel's children.
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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Lol. My FH and I are the first as well, but no excitement here. Best wishes to you.
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  • Emily
    Expert September 2020
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    Yes - sometimes I see people's budgets that seem crazy low and I'm like dang, did we do something insane? Location has so much to do with it. Based on my friends in the NJ/NY area, $30k seems middle of the road for an average wedding there - and my Indian friends' budgets? Holy crap 😂
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  • Annika
    Expert November 2020
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    We are paying for half and my parents are paying for half.

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  • Mrs. Spring
    Master April 2021
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    Annika, you have a lovely name. Okay, that's very generous of your parents to help. Best wishes to you.
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