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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every kid gets $20k for wedding and 20k toward down payment. I encourage them to put it all toward down payment. [/quote]

20k is 1995 prices for a wedding. 20k is a rounding error on a downpayment [/quote]

Is that true? How much does a wedding cost? I had earmarked $25k for each kid and thought that sounded like plenty.[/quote]

I looked this up recently because our children are approaching this age. Average US wedding costs $29,000. PP is just being a rude jerk. [/quote]

USA- 30k was the average for 2022 ceremony and reception only- 117 guests.  DC was 40k.  Exclusions might be over 20k [rings, clothes, rehearsal dinner, any transport/hotel, brunch, honeymoon, etc].  Wedding planner? somewhat redundant if a venue has coordination staff/event planners, guidelines. 
https://www.theknot.com/content/wedding-data-insights/real-weddings-study

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Doesn't seem like weddings have evolved that much over the years despite all the complaining about conservative or boomer families refusing to pay their fair share. Why haven't wedding also evolved to be smaller, more streamlined, and without all the icky traditional trappings for modern couples?  Brunch? Rings? Rehearsal dinner? The parties have just gotten bigger and more expensive and now the fights over who should ultimately foot the bill.[/quote]

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