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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is paying off their student loan debt with weddings.  Even weddings in which only cash is requested, they're not making out that great.  And that cash is always used for the honeymoon, definitely not balls.  [/quote]

Apparently you know nothing about Asians wedding.  My parents and in-law parents paid for the wedding and they invited about 500 guests to the wedding.  498 guests gave cash as wedding gift at $250 for single and $500 for couple.  Close relatives, brothers and sisters each gave about $1000 per person.   We collected about 150K in cash in wedding gifts.

Asians people are very generous with wedding gift in CASH.[/quote]

Woah. I have several close (UMC) Asian friends. They did receive similar but their parents used the amounts received to pay off the wedding. [/quote]

Here is how it works with Asians, specifically vietnamese, wedding.  At least that's how it worked with my wedding, brothers and sisters wedding.

In the morning, the groom and his family pick up the bride to be and her family from the bride's place and drive them to the groom's house where the ceremony will take place.  For some, it can take place in the budhist temple or in church.  The bride and groom will exchange vows.  After that, close families members and close friends will give gifts to the bride and groom, This is where the large gift amount in cash occurs.

In the evening reception, this is where it normally takes place at a chinese restaurant where about 500 guests are invited.  Each table will cost around $1000 for food and service.  If you invite 500 guests, that will be 50K with 5K in tip.  That will be 55K in cost.  If each guest give $250, you get 125K in CASH.  However, family members such as aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins  and close friends give much more, like $1000 per person.  150K is a good number

Even if the bride and groom pay for the restaurant cost, they still have 95K left in cash.  However, in most cases, the parents of both the bride and groom will pick up the restaurant cost. In my situation, my wife and my younger sister are BFF since high school and my sister is wealthy so my sister gave my wife a brand new Mercedes C class.[/quote]

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