We spent $500 for our full wedding. Dress, flowers, Preacher, 2 deli trays, Tea, Coffee, and a sheet cake from Walmart. Included paying the lady who set it up in the church lunch hall. He already had a nice expensive suit from teaching committees along with shoes. Rings were on sale half price..
Who says a wedding has to be expensive? All you need is a license and a JP or preacher.
Our reception was dry, and catered by my hubby’s church’s Ladies Aid. We had the reception at the church hall. And my late dad provided his Swedish meatballs. They were so popular, hubby and I never got any. They were gone by the time we ate. And my late mom-in-law, whose family was from Sweden, was after my dad for years to give her the recipe. Lovely memories, all done on a shoestring budget.
That’s pretty much what mine cost. Wedding dress off the rack, cooked a turkey and a ham with the fixings for dinner, JP married us at my parent;s house and only invited people that we actually wanted there. As my wife put it, “I don’t want a wedding, I want to be married.” Hard to argue with that logic.