So how big was your Wedding?
Reading the Postal thread got me really laughing at the money people spend on that one day... Maybe they needed 100 Toasters..[:D][:D]
I am married 31 years ago come this Sept. Priest, witness , Best Man, Brides Maid and my soon to be wife were the only ones present. Her Mom and Dad had another daughter getting married and couldn't afford the cost. I sure as heck wasn't spending my hard earned $$$$$ and we agreed NOT to have the big impressive Church Wedding.
So HOW MANY people attended your Wedding Day?
I am married 31 years ago come this Sept. Priest, witness , Best Man, Brides Maid and my soon to be wife were the only ones present. Her Mom and Dad had another daughter getting married and couldn't afford the cost. I sure as heck wasn't spending my hard earned $$$$$ and we agreed NOT to have the big impressive Church Wedding.
So HOW MANY people attended your Wedding Day?
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quote:Originally posted by select-fire
Reading the Postal thread got me really laughing at the money people spend on that one day... Maybe they needed 100 Toasters..[:D][:D]
I was married 31 years ago come this Sept. Priest, witness , Best Man, Brides Maid and my soon to be wife were the only ones present. Her Mom and Dad had another daughter getting married and couldn't afford the cost. I sure as heck wasn't spending my hard earned $$$$$ and we agreed NOT to have the big impressive Church Wedding.
So HOW MANY people attended your Wedding Day?
For simplicity's sake, I'll only count the last time I was married. There were about a hundred folks in attendance.0 -
Oh I almost forgot, My oldest son was there too.. but no one but the Bride and Groom knew it..[:0][:0][:0] 0 -
We rented a cabin at a local park...pretty and rustic like....there were maybe 100 people there in all. We even got the deposit back at the end. It was funny when it came time for the actual wedding. The pastor was trying to get everyone's attention and when he did people began pulling rocking chairs out to sit in during the ceremony. We had about three rows of rocking chairs all in a semi-circle around us. We just laughed and had a great time. The people who were there were family, and friends....they understood we just wanted a simple easy wedding. 0 -
i am with you select fire. we kept it simple. her father didn't have the money and yes my wife did want more of a wedding but we didn't have it either. he father bought the dress (about 300) my mother bought the cake, and my father gave us $2500 (don't tell my father in law he thinks we paid for it)(damn pride) we had it at a local fansy hotel, local judge/family friend, and about 15 close family memebers(parents, grand parents adn siblings) invited for the ceramony and dinner. that was on valentines day(cant forget my anny) in the summer we had a pig roast and kegs to celabrate with friends 0 -
Just had immediate family at our wedding. We went to Gatlinburg and got married in the middle of that stream behind Mrs Rogue. Actually it was on that rock we're standing on. Went out to eat afterwards with the family and spent the rest of our Honeymoon in a hotel room[:p][:p]
Couldn't have asked for a better wedding. Mrs Rogue made the bouquet herself. We just spent about 250 bucks on the whole wedding I think.
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Ours was about $20k and 100 or so people. Everyone that was invited showed up .... ACCEPT the azzholes that I work with. 8 from work invited, 6 did not show up. 7 people total RSVP's and did not show, the 6 and 1 other cousin.
We also got every single item off our registry.
It was a great party!0 -
150 people at the wedding.
About 200 at the reception.
We were 19 and our parents and grandparents wanted a nice wedding.
It was a summertime wedding(August), had club sandwiches, potato salad, chips, lemonade, iced tea. No liquor. Live DJ. Wedding was in a Chapel built in 1860, reception hall was fully decked (buffet line, walk in coolers/freezers, etc. Reception lasted until about 9pm. Tori and I left for the honeymoon about 7:30-8pm.
With the dress, tuxes, food, resvervation (everything) cost us $4500.
Pretty good when the average wedding costs $20k+
Now my brother-in-law and his wife's wedding cost close to $200k
Wedding and reception at the SeelBach Hilton in Louisville, KY. Open bar(top shelf liquor), black tie, two waiters/waitresses per table. Choice of wine. $150/plate for dinner alone for 350-400 guests (remember the open bar). Live band, it was awesome.0 -
As I come from a Polish-Catholic family, I had the big Catholic Mass church wedding, and it was an exercise in futility to try to limit the attendees.
Fortunately, my ex's famly was large, but not very close.
Wedding party consisted of my ex and I, my Maid of Honor (my sister), his Best Man (his best friend), a flower girl (my goddaughter), and a jr. usher (his little brother).
We kept expenses down by soliciting a friend to do the flower arrangements, bouquets, and buttoniers, and take the pictures. My dress was bought at J.C. Penney's for $200, and a seamstress friend made some embelishments and alterations to it for a nominal fee. Dad was the soloist. Reception was held at the local Polish heritage club, and was buffet style. DJ, and open bar, of course.
Had about 250 guests in attendance.
I think total expenses came to about $2000, but then, I thought what the heck, you only get married once...
All in all, it was a social success, very relaxed, very fun, but I wouldn't want to do it again.0 -
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also 100+- people, 20k$$$ i still get sick thinking of that huge waste of money! 0 -
Second Wedding, (the one that "took"), My Wonderful Wife (to be) chose her Sister's Home for the Wedding and reception, and it was in a small town in the Mojave Desert - Her parents bought the dress, and I paid for everything else - I think it cost around $2K, soup to nuts. Her last act as a Travel Agent, before I took her away, was to book our Honeymoon - two week Bahamas Cruise, for only the tax $300!
My Job was in Long Beach California, but my company had a Corporate Meeting (that was scheduled after I had gotten my Leave for Marriage approved) following our Sunday Marriage with two weeks (starting Monday) in "Beautiful New Jersey", so they paid for Two Weeks in a Bridal Suite (in a not bad at all hotel) while I attended...They sent us to Broadway Plays (2), Central Park Carriage Ride, Meadowlands Football Game, Meadowlands Horse Race, Bought us both every Dinner, some at really fine restaraunts, Champagne and flowers every day, gave her over $1000 to shop with while I was in the stupid meetings, and let us leave a day early to go on our Cruise. They even sent Champagne and Flowers to the Cruise ship, and to our home after we got back! We actually got sick of expensive Champagne, even to this day, some 25 Years later.
My First Wedding, the one that failed, was a HUGE production, took place on the Ship "QUEEN MARY" in Long Beach Harbor, and the reception on board - over 1000 people, full-on sit down Dinner, Six Courses, Dancing into the Night, 20-piece Orchestra, Dress was over $5000, Flowers cost over $3500, Bar bill was over $25,000, I think the meal service was over $25,000 and on and on...This was in 1978 dollars...fortunately, her Parents and her Brothers paid for it all.
To top it all off, about half of our gifts were stolen while the Photographer ($7500) kept us busy...0 -
It was a small cheap wedding. the divorce is going to be big $$$ . 0 -
quote:So how big was your Wedding?
... big enough to last 25 years!0 -
Me and the wife wanted to keep it simple. Me, her, and two more in the wedding, along with the immediate family. By the time my and her mom gor finished putting the whole thing together, ended up with fourteen people in the wedding, along with about a hundred guests or so. At the reception, we had about 150 guests. My out of pocket expense was about six grand. That included the ring, and the honeymoon. Mine and her parents incured the rest of the cost. Equaled to around twenty thousand. 0 -
Think we had about 250 people...we both have pretty big families and everyone gets along. My parents (4 of them) and her parents split up alot of the costs. 0 -
About 35 people at the wedding and i'm not sure about the reception. I was thinking of only one thing during the reception. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by bpost1958
It was a small cheap wedding. the divorce is going to be big $$$ .
sounds much like my first.0 -
All in all there were about 30 people there. Very simple wedding at the base chapel. My wife didnt even want me to spend money on a wedding gown so she wore just a regular dress.
People swore it wouldnt last because she was only 17 and I was 20...that was almost 24 years ago now. [:p]0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
quote:So how big was your Wedding?
... big enough to last 25 years!
You two haven't changed at all in the last 25 years![:0] Maybe a little less hair!0 -
quote:Originally posted by rogue_rob
Just had immediate family at our wedding. We went to Gatlinburg and got married in the middle of that stream behind Mrs Rogue. Actually it was on that rock we're standing on. Went out to eat afterwards with the family and spent the rest of our Honeymoon in a hotel room[:p][:p]
Couldn't have asked for a better wedding. Mrs Rogue made the bouquet herself. We just spent about 250 bucks on the whole wedding I think.
A very attractive lady you have there Rob!! You are a lucky man! Nice place to get married and a lovely setting![:)]0 -
All together, maybe $50K - Honeymoons would add perhaps another $30K.
Had some damned nice honeymoons.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
All together, maybe $50K - Honeymoons would add perhaps another $30K.
Had some damned nice honeymoons.
Doug
The advantages of being married multiple times! Many exciting Honeymoons in far away places!
Of course the divorces double the cost of the relationship, Wedding + Divorce = Bankruptcy!![:0][:0]0 -
(Yeah - but you've got a GREAT one THIS time!
A2
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It cost the $30 for the marriage license, $40 for my wife's clothes, $10 for gas to drive to the court house, and $1100 total for the rings. I'm not including the "party" my family threw, because we didn't want one or ask for one. 0 -
The minister, wifes parents, and my parents. Afterward we had a big party at wifes parents house with all our relatives and a bunch of friends there. Party was plain and simple with a minimum of snacks and drinks (mostly beer) and kept inexpensive. I paid for the most of it. Was in the Army home from leave having spent time in Europe and on my way to Nam to finish out my time. That was 38 years ago the end of August. 0 -
we made it simple, i figured marriage is such a gamble so no better place than las-vegas me and the wife flew out for a week end got it done
when i was in the chef business around once a month we would hold a reception as cubs described, any where from 12,000 dollars to 54,000, we had one where the rehearsal was 25,000, and the reception for them was well over 50,000, i catered a party once where the alcohol tab alone was 36,000
glad i have boys, i tell my father in law i'm still waiting on my dowry, for taking her off his hands, he keeps telling me "no refunds, no exchanges"0 -
quote:sig232:
You two haven't changed at all in the last 25 years! Maybe a little less hair!
I dumped the face junk - Lazik - and the beard, in the 90's ... Gale's
gotten prettier! Other than that ... pretty much the same!
- nothing much new!
... and, NO, you CAN'T clean my guns!
A2
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
quote:sig232:
You two haven't changed at all in the last 25 years! Maybe a little less hair!
I dumped the face junk - Lazik - and the beard, in the 90's ... Gale's
gotten prettier! Other than that ... pretty much the same!
- nothing much new!
... and, NO, you CAN'T clean my guns!
A2
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Ha!Ha!Ha! A little inside joke![:D][:D][:D]
I wish you a long life Zip![;)]0 -
Our second wedding. 100 people in attendance. The entire thing, including her wedding dress, food, everything was just under $3,000. I didn't think that was too bad. We wanted a nice party for us and the family and friends but since we were paying for it we did some crative shopping. 0
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