Almost $20K worth of reception.
Or a very decent down payment on a house…
OR, they go to Reno and get married, send out announcements and use the money they WOULD HAVE SPENT on essentials. My parents and her sisters and my Uncles, did the same thing. My parents offered me a wedding, paid for with motel rooms for 5 days, do it in Reno. My future wife would not go for it, her parents paid beaucoup bucks, and I regretted getting married for 4 years, then got divorced.
Found me a woman who doesn’t care about the foo foo frilly BS, and I am happy. Say Yes to the Dress? These people are insane..
Exactly!
My grandson got married recently, he and his fiancee were paying for their own wedding. They planned to have a fairly simple wedding, and not big by today’s standards- around 100 guests.
While making plans they realized it was going to cost $20,000+. They are both bright people and realized that was insane when they could use that kind of money to get into a home instead.
So they decided to be more practical. They got married in the backyard of a family member with about 50 guests. Food was prepared by family, yard was decorated by family. It was a perfect wedding!