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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Myself and my husband are the parents of the groom and we are married.  The bride’s  parents are divorced and giving money separately. In total, there are 3 sources of money for the reception.  As I said in my OP, the bride and groom are very aware that this $$ is their budget and will spend accordingly.

My question revolved around their handling of the bill paying.  My thoughts were that they would open a shared checking account (let’s call it the Wedding Account) and pay vendor deposits, and ultimately the final bills, from this one account.  This way, it is their budget to manage, not mine.

Just wondering how others have managed their wedding events. I have been married for decades and my parents paid for almost everything. [/quote]

You are all being very generous. I hope it's a wonderful wedding.

Assuming that no one in the picture is prone to wild spending that is out of line with the budget - I'd say just give them the check and trust that they will do what's expected with it. My parents and my husband's parents gave us checks for $10k each when we got married 10 years ago - that was the entirety of our wedding budget. (And we loved our wedding!)

We put it into our shared account and paid bills out of it, as we would have paid any other bills. That would be my recommendation here, too - why overcomplicate things. Just give them the $ you intend to give them, and let them handle the rest.[/quote]

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