How much did your wedding cost?

American 1997 dollars

My engagement ring I think cost about $5000.

Wedding bands were about $400.

Two dresses, each about $30

I don’t remember how much the license and county clerk cost. Minimal.

A party in our apartment for about 40 guests, including painting, decorating, chafing dishes, food, cake, beverages around $1500

Honeymoon around $5000

ETA: I can’t imagine ever wanting to do any kind of ceremony ever again ever, but if I did it would be different

My son just got married in May; my hubby & I paid for the venue, $1500 and the food which we prepared ourselves, approximately $300, and the beer, about $200. The photographer was a family friend so she did the pics for $300. I bought a couple tents and some flowers for decorating the inside of the covered bridge where the ceremony was held, so thats another $250. My son rented the sound equipment and his bride bought her dress and a few other decorations, but total I'm sure there was less than $5000 for the entire wedding weekend, which included use of the cabin where the wedding party spent Friday night and the bride & groom spent Saturday night.

It was a simple ceremony but it matched my son & his bride's personalities to a T!

My daughter is getting married in October and although her venue is a little less expensive, $1200, she is planning on a lot more decorating, a DJ, and her grandparents have already spent $1400 on her dress. Her reception will be catered so that will be more and she has hired a photographer. I'm going to guess her wedding will be more in the range of $7 - $10,000. BUT she is going to be a beautiful bride!!

1984 Canadian dollars.

My engagement ring cost around $450 and the wedding band was $100. His band was $5 or $10 more because it was larger.

No wedding as such, just a ceremony with a clergyperson and the two required witnesses. I wore a dress that I already owned, probably the only one I owned at that time. We took the witnesses and their spouses out for a fancy dinner that evening. No honeymoon. No flowers. Somebody took a few photos with my camera. Total cost around $400.

I refused to spend more than $5K. I didn't even want to get married, was quite happy to continue to co-habitate but my husband has old fashioned ideas and dind't want to live in sin any longer (eyeroll)

I don't even like calling him my husband.

My dress cost about $100 from one of those young people shops with nightclub dresses.

The rest I don't even know exactly how much it cost, but some $ to the church, some $ (not much!) for the floral arrangement thingy the church said we had to have (so that they could keep it for the rest of the week) and the small bouquet. Some $ on a marquee that we stuck up in my parent's back yard and some $ for the food/alcohol. There was one caterer/waiter person too so that we didn't have to worry about that. But it all came in below $5K.

There was no honeymoon.

Oh, also, judging by the American values above, in Australia alcohol costs WAY more than $200 for the 30 odd people I invited. $200 of alcohol here is seriously what, 4 bottles of spirits. Or 2 cases of beer and 2 bottles of spirits.

My $5K AUD is pretty cheap for Australian monetary values. Stupid expensive-*kitten* country.

I got married in 2000 (and divorced 2015) - my wedding cost $15,000. We had about 100 guests, really good food, open bar (and friends who are serious drinkers). We also paid for hotel rooms for all the wedding party. My dress was originally $1800 but I got it off the sales rack marked down to $750. I loved my wedding and wouldn't have changed a thing. Except the groom If I get married again it will be a totally different event however (except for the serious drinkers). Something simple, outdoors.

I asked this question on another website and the costs varied from a couple of hundred to tens of thousands.

I had a NYC wedding in 2013. It cost about 35k. I loved everything about my wedding and wouldn’t change it.

$125. Got our marriage license at the courthouse while on vacation in Myrtle Beach. It was the most relaxing wedding I have ever been to. We did have a friend that went with us (who got ordained prior to the trip) do a mini ceremony for us on our condo balcony... which was kind of cool

I have spent a lot in money, yau and time on relatives and friends wedding planning, pre wedding events, engagement parties, hens nights & bucks parties, receptions and weddings.

Going the traditional route ( White Wedding, which means an island State one (bleh!)+ Cultural) is SPENDY. I know my mum wants to pay for it all, which will give her the opportunity to flex her financial muscle to my father's family . Shrugs. I will corral her though and limit her excesses to the traditional gifting and events (cultural), which I don't really need to be physically present for, should the opportunity present itself, allowing my man to have a say about how he wants it to be - the engagement, wedding & reception, as I am perfectly contented with a Las Vegas wedding and buffet at a Las Vegas hotel for catering or just the court house then dinner with my sister & selected friends .

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The wedding itself, including clothes and food cost under $300. It wasn't the first marriage for either of us so we wanted something simple, casual and fun for everyone. The wedding was/is not as important to us as the marriage. We were travelling to Montana for a family reunion and secretly contacted my cousin who is an ordained minister and my aunt who was hosting the reunion. I bought a sun dress for me, hawaiian shirts for my husband and sons to wear. We had my aunt pick up custom cheesecakes that we ordered over the phone (the most expensive part of the whole wedding). They kept it a secret until the day of the ceremony. If they hadn't, it would have turned into My Big Fat Greek Wedding minus the Greek part. We said our vows in front of family on the shore of Holter Lake. It was inexpensive and meaningful. We spent quite a bit on the family vacation itself but not on the ceremony.

This made me smile.

My wife and I paid for all the tuxedo rentals, bride's maids dresses, venue, DJ, video and photography, etc. and there were about 230 people at our wedding. Now mind you this was 1998. $18,000 for everything.

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Not sure about the Australian conversion, but that seems like a lot. We had a fairly simple wedding. Our costs are below in American dollars.

My dress:$500 dress, $180 for alterations.
My husband and son's outfits: maybe $125.
Wedding/reception venue: $400
Catering: $1800
Photographer: $500
DJ: $800
Cake: $350
Decorations: maybe $100.

Total cost: ~$5000.

about 8k.
most of it was food
second was the photographer
it would have been less but the groom was a bit of a groomzilla.
we did the honeymoon for about 1.5k