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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]To all the couples who paid for their own wedding.  Your parents sound cheap and selfish.[/b]  Maybe they don't like who you married and felt it was not worth the investment.  Do you also have huge education loans?  Sounds like you were not a huge priority.  Break the cycle.  Parents do not have to provide everything.  I can see why a lot of you DCUM parents don't vauee your kids grandparents.  [/quote]

DH and I paid for our own wedding.  When we got married, we were 40 (him) and 36 (me), and were working professionals.  Our parents were retired.  Why on earth would we expect them to foot the bill for our party?

My parents put seven kids through expensive private colleges and universities, debt-free, and my mother, who passed away last winter, left almost a million dollars to her seven kids upon her death.  She lived in assisted living for several years prior to her death to the tune of almost $10K a month and never asked any of us for a penny towards her bills.  Not a dime.  She saved and saved and scrimped and paid her own way so as not to be a burden to her children.  (Highly unusual among the DCUM grandparents crowd.)

I hardly think any of these choices are "selfish."[/quote]

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