If you had one who paid for your wedding ?

We paid for all of it bar the cake which my mum paid for,my hubby to be paid for my wedding dress ,we had a buffet meal .
We honeymoon ed in a cottage someone lent us for free .

My husband and I paid for most of our own wedding as we married in middle age.
However one of my oldest , dearest friends catered all the food as her wedding present to me.
My younger sister married at a "traditional " age and when she was still living in the same city as our parents. My father paid for that.

I hired a brand new wedding dress and bought shoes, headdress, flowers etc myself.

My Mum made our wedding cake but paid to get it professionally iced.

My Dad paid for a wedding car and the reception in a community centre. My cousin was a chef so he did all the food which was excellent and Dad paid.

We could not afford a honeymoon but went back to our rented cottage.

My husband’s parents were very well off but as tight as could be and didn’t offer to pay anything towards the wedding at all.

My mum and dad paid for most of it.
Not honeymoon.

It helped that a relative was the manager of the hotel where the reception was.
Plus we had various people that could help out with this and that.

I ended up having a "designer" dress.
As in it was designed for me.
But again I was fortunate as I was her first customer[so we both took risks].
I had looked at lots of dresses[I am not usually a fussy type of person]. Had found a dress I liked the top of, and a dress I liked the bottom of. So the new dressmaker made one with that in mind.
I loved it.
And she didnt charge any more than an average bridal gown would have cost.

My parents paid for everything.

We paid for the honeymoon.

That was in 1968.

My parents paid for the day reception and my DH parents paid for the evening buffet reception, it was all held in the same place and we had 50 guests in the day with a few more in the evening. I think I paid for my dress and I offered to pay for the 2 x bridesmaids dresses but they said they would pay for themselves as if they were guests they would have to buy and outfit. Our wedding anniversary today 48 years.

Why would the taxpayer have to pay? I'm sure Crown estates could cover it.

I think that if C & W's wedding cost a total of £500,000.00, then, considering the number of guests and other costs, then the taxpayer must have paid the rest. I expect the dress alson cost more than that.

married in 1968, my parents paid for the wedding reception
hubby and I paid for everything else, my wages at that time were about £8 or £9 a week

My Dad paid for our wedding. It's traditionally the brides family who pays. He had had a savings account for it specially since my sister and I were born .