2006-11-03 18:28:27 · 12 answers · asked by mellygirl 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Traditionally the breakdown goes something like this:
The Bride and Her Family:
Engagement party (if held)
Groom's wedding ring
Wedding gift for groom
Bridesmaid's luncheon (if held)
Pre wedding parties
Gifts for bridal attendants
Flowers
Bride's wedding dress and accessories
Trousseau and lingerie
Invitations, announcements and stationery
Mailing costs associated with invitations and announcements
Wedding Guest Book
Transportation for bridal party from bride's home to the ceremony
Cost of ceremony - all related costs, i.e. rental fees, flowers, music, etc.
Transportation of wedding party from ceremony to reception
Cost of reception - all related costs, i.e. rental fees, food, beverages, decor, music, etc.
Photography/Videography
Wedding consultant fees (if applicable)
Bride's physical exam and blood test (if applicable)
The Groom and His Family:
Bride's wedding ring
Wedding gift for the bride
Gifts for best man, groomsman and ushers
Bachelor dinner (if not given by best man)
Groom's physical exam and blood test (if required)
Groom's wedding attire
Marriage license
Rehearsal dinner
Fee for wedding officiant
Honeymoon
Alcoholic Beverages at reception (if applicable)
The Maid/Matron of Honor and the Bridesmaids:
Own dress and accessories
Gift for the couple
Parties or entertainment for the bride
Bridal Shower
Shower gift
Own transportation to and from wedding
The Best Man, Groomsmen and Ushers:
Own clothing rental
Gift for the couple
Bachelor dinner
Parties or entertainment for groom
Own transportation to and from wedding
Bride and Groom:
Gifts of appreciation for those who helped with the wedding
In current days though, the couple often pays for the entire thing themselves (with exception of services offered by family as gifts)
2006-11-03 18:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a traditional American wedding, the groom's family pays for the rehearsal dinner, the wedding ceremony (ie the church and minister but not the flowers or music), the bride's bouquet, the gifts for the ushers, and the groom's and ushers' flowers.
2006-11-04 05:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by sq 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Years in the past, while i replaced into growing to be up, I look to undergo in concepts the two mom and dad had particular factors of the marriage that they paid for. i do no longer undergo in concepts precisely what the two sides paid for, yet i think of the groom's discern's paid for the booze, on a similar time as the bride's discern's paid for the corridor and the nutrition, and we will not forget the cake. the element is wedding ceremony are very high priced and that they are starting to be in basic terms worse by way of the years. yet then, there are those persons like my spouse and that i, who have been given married and celebrated in our very own way for under $600. besides, the element that lots of persons look to forget is the bride and groom. Hell, they even forget themselves and get all under pressure, each and every from time to time to the factor the place they finally end up calling off the marriage and breaking up. i know, using fact i replaced into in basic terms at present conversing to a girl (offline), who replaced into engaged and that they broke up and cancelled the marriage for that very reason. i think, it incredibly is a sturdy element they found out previously hand that they should not be getting married. If I have been you, i might sit down which incorporate your spouse, your daughter and her fiancee and his mom and dad, and communicate it. don't get offended. attempt and save and open concepts. undergo in concepts, you're no longer in basic terms gaining a son inlaw you're starting to be an , so the extra helpful you may get alongside with them the extra helpful off issues would be interior the long-term. i think of, the belief of determining to purchase one hundred% of your daughter's wedding ceremony replaced into an un-lifelike thought. in spite of the reality that, it replaced into an quite superb and beneficiant one! I propose, you enable them that may additionally assist you pay for the marriage as much as they want. in case you incredibly desire to furnish your daughter and her new husband a dazzling present, how approximately utilising the funds you shop to purchase low value expenses bonds or another investments if and while they have babies, so as that the babies could have funds in direction of college.
2016-10-21 05:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These days, with both the man and woman working, they usually pay for the whole wedding. If parents want to kick in some bucks, they can, but it is not required. That trad. is gone.
2006-11-03 22:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It really depends on your culture. In my culture the grooms family pays for everything. So dependant on how well off my inlaws are, determines how extravigant my wedding will be.
2006-11-03 18:31:35 · answer #5 · answered by wherenai 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this is 2006. Those old rules hardly apply anymore. Get a wedding ettiquette book and it will tell you. Me and my husband did it by ourselves with the help of my mom and my sisters. Both our fathers are deceased and his mother is sick. We just did whatever we had to do and ended up having the wedding of our dreams.
2006-11-03 20:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by babyj248 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Usually having to put up with the wife for the next few years.
2006-11-03 18:36:20 · answer #7 · answered by Just Me 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The rehersal dinner
2006-11-03 19:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by luscious_tori 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just for the wedding rehersal dinner
2006-11-04 02:45:30 · answer #9 · answered by smiley 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Traditionally they are supposed to pay for the reception dinner. but now-a-days, i would think they should pay for half or something.
2006-11-03 18:30:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋