How much did your wedding cost?

[Anonymous]

About $100,000 in DC in 2007, not including rings or honeymoon. We paid about $20k, my parents paid the rest. And we felt like we made some cost-cutting concessions in a couple of areas.

[Anonymous]

35K, Napa Valley, 90 guests for totally elegant and gorgeous party.

[Anonymous]

About 25k, which is ridiculous (Indian wedding, hard to do such an affair on the cheap)...though my cousin's wedding was around $750k. (yes, seven hundred fifty thousand, including gifts of cars)

So I guess it's all relative. In retrospect, I would have invited the same people and just had a fun party at my parents' house.

[Anonymous]

20K, Miami, 80 guests, great food, enough booze to sink the Titanic.

[Anonymous]

$100K for ~230 guests in DC in 2000. A great day, but if I had to do it over again I would opt for smaller, more intimate wedding.

[Anonymous]

After being the maid of honor at my sister's wedding I decided big, formal weddings were not for me. We eloped at the Arlington Courthouse (no blood test like DC). I think it was $50? A nice lunch out with our close friends and family, about $300. The best was our wedding gift from my Dad, a check for 40k, the cost of my sister's wedding, a complete surprise that we used towards the downpayment on a house.

[Anonymous]

$150K for 300 guests, including the honeymoon. Our parents paid for it. In retrospect, we should have had a much smaller wedding and saved the money towards the downpayment of a house or for our kids' educational funds.

[Anonymous]

Some of these are so expensive.

Mine was $12k in 2008, for 150 guests. We held it at the (nice, large) reception hall of our church- so the venue was basically free, and we were able to use any vendors we wanted and supply our own alcohol. The $12k figure includes everything except the rings. My parents paid for the wedding.

It was important to us to have the wedding in the DC area, on a Saturday night (an issue for many venues), and to invite lots of family. It was a really, really nice wedding and everyone had a great time.

[Anonymous]

I should clarify, the $12k included the reception, invitation, dress, etc.. (not the rings, not the honeymoon).

[Anonymous]

About $50-60K, but that includes the cost of a photographer, videographer, and everything (not including the $12K honeymoon). It was in 2008 in an NYC suburb, and I don't feel that it was in any way extravagant. We cut costs wherever we could, so the median cost on here is surprising to me.

[Anonymous]

60K for 90 people in DC. Includes rehearsal dinner but does not include rings or honeymoon.

[Anonymous]

$200k for 175 guests in Georgetown in 2006

[Anonymous]

$40K for everything in NOVA, 2009. Worth every penny. We had already bought a house. We paid for it, in cash, no debt.

[Anonymous]

50k in 2009, southern maryland. 200 guests. Only spent $175 on my dress. We paid about 10k, 5k from his parents, my parents paid the rest.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing @$250K in 1996, 300 guests