Wedding are not inexpensive and it takes planning and budgeting to be able to afford the wedding of your dreams. Who pays for the various costs is a good question. With couples getting married later in life, many times the couples themselves are paying for the wedding. Another plan used for paying for the wedding is to split the cost is thirds, with the Brides family, Grooms Family, and the Bride and Groom each paying for one third of the costs. But still many will follow the traditional guidelines listed below.
Traditional Responsibilities
The bride’s family pays for:
- - Reception costs, including food, music, decorations, rental fees and entertainment
- - Ceremony Costs including rental fees, decorations
- - Flowers for Ceremony and Reception
- - The bride’s wedding dress and accessories
- - Invitations, announcements, programs, and mailing costs
- - Favors
- - Photography
- - Transportation
- - Their own attire and travel expenses
The groom’s family pays for:
- - The rehearsal dinner, including food, invitations, decorations and entertainment
- - Their own attire and travel expenses
- - A wedding present
The bride pays for:
- - The groom’s wedding ring
- - A wedding gift for the groom
- - Her hair, makeup, beauty treatments
- - Gifts for her attendants
- - Sometimes accommodations for any out-of-town bridesmaids
The groom pays for:
- - The marriage license
- - The bride’s engagement ring and wedding ring
- - The honeymoon
- - A wedding gift for the bride
- - The bride’s bouquet
- - Gifts for his attendants
- - Corsages for the mothers and grandmothers
- - Boutonni’res for the men in the wedding party
- - Sometimes accommodations for any out-of-town groomsmen
- - Fee for the officiant
The beautiful picture to the right was taken at Saguaro Buttes at a recent wedding on the stairs leading up to the back patio next to the waterfall.