What did your DC wedding cost?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so happy I only have boys. The stupidity on here is astounding.

Most boys parents pay equal to brides It's 2019 after all

We paid for DDs wedding. The grooms parents paid for the rehearsal dinner. In 2019. And that’s the case for most people I know whose kids are getting married.

Only accurate in very limited circles today

[Anonymous]

Fort McNair Officers Club. About $100 per person and had 110 guests. Add in a photographer and a few other plus ups and we spent about $15k in 2013.

Great venue too, right off the Potomac and had the whole building reserved

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so happy I only have boys. The stupidity on here is astounding.

Most boys parents pay equal to brides It's 2019 after all

We paid for DDs wedding. The grooms parents paid for the rehearsal dinner. In 2019. And that’s the case for most people I know whose kids are getting married.

Only accurate in very limited circles today

We got a 2K gift from his parents and mine contributed nothing because they couldn't afford it. Of my friends, not many had parents paying for it. We're millennials many of us have to foot it ourselves.

We didn't get married in DC but the small town I grew up in. We got great deals because everyone knows everyone. Fantastic party 130 people for 10K.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$200 K. 200 guests, multiple days..."modest" respectable Indian Hindu wedding. Baltimore Waterfront Marriott.

That's almost $1000/guest. When was this? Also curious who paid for the wedding? Parents? (If so whose) or you? Seems comparable to costs in India for a high-end wedding (200K would have been Rs. 1.4 crores)

No. Full cost of multiple events over multiple days. Bride's parents paid for the bulk of it.

[Anonymous]

In 2010, 10k with 40 guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 2010, 10k with 40 guests.

Oh, and we paid for it ourselves.

[Anonymous]

The new formula is 1/3 groom parents, 1/3 brides parents and 1/3 couple

BTW when grooms parents paid 100 percent the groom was expected to pay for home and let wife be a SAHM.

The grooms today wife expected to work, pay 1/2 everything and do 80 percent of child rearing. And actually give birth.

If anything in 2019 groom parents should pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new formula is 1/3 groom parents, 1/3 brides parents and 1/3 couple

BTW when grooms parents paid 100 percent the groom was expected to pay for home and let wife be a SAHM.

The grooms today wife expected to work, pay 1/2 everything and do 80 percent of child rearing. And actually give birth.

If anything in 2019 groom parents should pay

THIS X 1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In 2010, 10k with 40 guests.

Oh, and we paid for it ourselves.

Different poster, but the exact same cost, # of guests, and year for me. Also paid for it ourselves.

[Anonymous]

80-100k, 200 guests. My (DW) parents paid. If they hadn’t, we would have just had 20 guests in a park or something because I don’t think it would be a priority. It was a great party though. It was important to my parents.

[Anonymous]

$50k for about 180 at the Reagan Building downtown in the Rotunda room. 2007. Most of the money went to catering and the venue. I spent very little on the dress, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new formula is 1/3 groom parents, 1/3 brides parents and 1/3 couple

BTW when grooms parents paid 100 percent the groom was expected to pay for home and let wife be a SAHM.

The grooms today wife expected to work, pay 1/2 everything and do 80 percent of child rearing. And actually give birth.

If anything in 2019 groom parents should pay

+1 This is how I am doing it for my upcoming wedding and most of my friends that have gotten married have some "combo" arrangement like this. (I am 28 FWIW.)

[Anonymous]

Loew's Hotel downtown, spent 90k, 100 with rehearsal. Not including honeymoon. This was in 2012 for 120 ppl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$200 K. 200 guests, multiple days..."modest" respectable Indian Hindu wedding. Baltimore Waterfront Marriott.

That's almost $1000/guest. When was this? Also curious who paid for the wedding? Parents? (If so whose) or you? Seems comparable to costs in India for a high-end wedding (200K would have been Rs. 1.4 crores)

No. Full cost of multiple events over multiple days. Bride's parents paid for the bulk of it.

Geez, we had two nights, 220 people, $50K in Bethesda. Pretty lavish, actually.

[Anonymous]

2011- MoCo park lodge facility, 110 people, ~$20k