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[quote=Anonymous]My family and my wive's family give good wedding gifts. Even the poor blue collar people and the retired people.  they dont go a lot of weddings just nieces and nephews as both are sets of parents are immigrants.

As such we usually throw really nice weddings but not huge. Mine was only 120 people but super fancy and nice  But remember, most of my close relatives gave $1,000. For that they are expecting super high quality event. Which I did. I just kept it a low amount of people. And of 120 guests nearly all couples. So 60 checks and of that 60 checks only the the closest 15-20 couples  gave really good checks. In end I broke even counting in DJ, Limo and flowers. Which is perfect. But if I did a 300 person wedding how would that work?  If only the first 15-20 couples giving decent checks I go bankrupt. I dont have enought rich friends.

I did go once to a 500 person 500 a plate wedding in 1996. OMG was crazy. But close couples were giving  $5,000 each in 1996 and further out they were giving as little as $250 a couple. They actually got around $250,000 in gifts so also broke even.

I also went to a VFH hall wedding with tap beer catered by delli. That couple was very young in college and parents broke and did not support weeding. They also broke even. They knew guests giving like $40 or $50 a couple so planned it that way.

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