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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don't do it afterwards. DH and I married at 25 and couldn't afford much. His parents gave us money after the wedding (like 1k) but it would have been so amazing before since we had to pay all our vendors 30 days in advance. It's cool, we were just a bit broke that month. [/quote]

Probably they knew you would spend more if they gave it earlier. If you didn't have money, why there were vendors? Why not a simple exchange of wows and dinner in backyard or a restaurant?[/quote]

We wanted a wedding with our families present. We paid cash. It was 27k, so it was simple. It was the best day of our lives. Inlaws said they'd pay for the rehearsal dinner, but wouldn't give us money. We planned a very simple rehearsal dinner that we could afford since we didn't know if they'd pay. We wouldn't have spent more on our wedding, but we did have a lot of out of town guests upset they couldn't be invited to the rehearsal dinner.

The main issue was that our car broke down right before the wedding which used up any spare cash we had.

My whole point was that if you're a parent who says they'll pay, pay ahead of time so that it's less financial strain. [/quote]

We're the counter point. We had a nice wedding, but there was a set budget. On our first anniversary the inlaws gave us a 50k check. I am so glad they waited because when we were planning we probably would have spent most of it on the wedding or honeymoon. Instead, we invested it and it became a large downpayment three years which helped launch us financially [/quote]

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