Your next step is to determine your costs
for your dream wedding. Traditionally the responsibility for payment
for each of the following was as follows.
The Bride’s Family Paid
For The:
- Announcements
- Invitations
- Wedding gown
- Bridesmaids’ party
- Photography
- Ceremony site expenses
- Musical performers at the ceremony
and reception
- Flowers at the ceremony and reception
- Transportation for the bridal party
- Total cost of the reception
- Groom’s wedding ring
- Gifts for the bridesmaids
- Hotel accommodations for out-of-town
bridesmaids
The Groom’s Family Paid
For The:
- Rehearsal dinner
- Marriage license
- Brides engagement ring
- Brides wedding ring
- Clergy or other officiant’s
fees
- Brides flowers, boutonnieres for
men in the wedding party, corsages for mothers, grandmothers
- Gifts for the best man and groomsmen
- Hotel accommodations for out-of-town
groomsmen
- Wedding night accommodations for
the bride and groom
- Limo to airport
- Honeymoon
Today’s more personalized weddings,
however, give the bride and groom freedom to discuss and re-allocate
responsibility for the costs. At this point you can bring to the potential
financially responsible parties (i.e. parents of the bride and parents
of the groom) your plan for the wedding and your thoughts on a division
of the expenses. Then you should know your overall wedding budget, and
you can search for reception sites that fall within it.
