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Not in the hole when you consider that my wifes mother paid for her dress and rehersal dinner. My parents kicked in a sizable amount of cash toward the costs and paid for our honeymoon.

$20K was the total expense for the whole ball of wax. Not what we paid out of pocket.

We ran a pretty good profit on the matter. And it is likely that the place we had the reception at lost money on us. Through a comedy of errors, and our guests ability to eat and drink massive amounts.

First, my wifes madien name is Glick. There was a reception at the same time in the adjoining ballroom where the brides madien name was Gluck. As one would expect, hotel reservations were all screwed up for many guests and rooms had to be given away for free and some at greatly reduced cost. Something we should have had they had and vis versa.

And our guests then proceeded to drink the place out of several liquors and beers and they were forced to go to a local liquor store and grocery store to replenish their supplies and because of this we got an additional hour of open bar. Not to mention we put a real hurtin on the buffet.

Several things also got screwed up on the honeymoon. From airline flights, to hotel rooms, to rental cars. We ended up getting free flights, cars, and rooms.

When all was said and done, we profited cash wise, and bagged a lot of free stuff.