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[quote=Anonymous]My FIL & MIL are paying for SIL wedding, a huge destination event, I'm pretty sure FIL even took out a 10k loan if rumors are to be believed.

My husband and I got married in his mothers backyard with 10 people, all family, no bridesmaids/groomsmen or rehearsal dinners or anything like that, we paid for it. My mother is fairly poor and my dad died years ago so no monetary help from my family at all. My MIL did have her house professionally cleaned and paid for the food (Under $200).

Same year for both weddings, all of us are about the same age, no resentment on me or husbands part about things not being "fair." I got exactly the wedding I wanted (planned in 2 weeks! we just wanted to be married) and SIL will get exactly the wedding she wants.

For us, what was important was for his grandparents to be there without inconveniencing them as they're in their 80's...we are very close with them and they live in town where we got married. We only wanted very close family there, the theatrics around everything seemed stressful and unnecessary to us, so kept it super simple and it was beautiful/perfect! A 2 week timeframe also dictated that we didn't have much choice in keeping it simple lol!

No help for us for down payment, I don't know about SIL but I don't think they've had any help either. It doesn't matter to me either way though, we're all happy and healthy and get along great so no need to "keep score."
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