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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tradition is the groom pays FLOP- Flowers, liquor, orchestra, photographer and rehearsal dinner. Turns out to be about 50-50.  We’re lucky in that neither of us had student loans so we were able to use our wedding gifts as part of our down payment. [/quote]
Never in my nearly 50 years of walking on this earth have I heard this. Sounds like something made up by a Bride mag. Not saying it’s terrible; it’s certainly not “tradition”. [/quote]

Yeah I never in my life heard this. I’ve heard rehearsal dinner or alcohol. Dhs parents said they’d pay for rehearsal dinner but Dh wouldn’t call to discuss (this should have been a warning sign for how the rest of our life would go!!!). We were soooo broke so we moved forward with the rehearsal dinner we could afford at 24 after paying for our own wedding- pizza at my apartment. Dhs dad went to pick up the pizza even and didn’t bother to even pay them (it went on our credit card like a bazillion other things that month!). They eventually paid us back the $140 for pizza and that was all they paid for our wedding. I got some nice shower gifts. They paid for SILs wedding in full which I’m sure was over 50k. I was salty about how they didn’t even pay for their plate at their own sons wedding. I probably won’t ever get over it. Ha. My friends really did judge our rehearsal dinner as they flew in and my family is UMC. [/quote]

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