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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rich people problem alert! (none of this money will effect our retirement money or plans)

Do you try to make that "fair" with your sons? DH wants to just offer each of the kids the same amount, say $100,000, and let them use for wedding and house downpayment. But in truth, I cannot see denying DD the fancy wedding (which we will all truly enjoy) and also helping her get into her first house. For the oldest son, we paid closing costs and whatever else after DS first secured a mortgage loan on his own, which came to just under $100,000. [/quote]

Yes but probably 1/2 of that wedding cost is about you and your husband and all your friends and family. The wedding isn't about just the couple. It's about the couple and the family and the family friends (and sometimes business friends) that have known the couple all of their lives and that their parents insist must come.

My parents paid for the wedding so I invited their friends (who knew me my whole life and I had a relationship with obviously) but had they said here is 100K I would have had a much smaller cheaper wedding and left off their friends (but they wanted them there to see me and celebrate).[/quote]

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