Wedding Planning

Who pays for what?

Fortunately for parents blessed with daughters, the modern trend is for the families of the bride and groom to share the expenses involved in a wedding, so that the bride’s parents are not lumbered with the full amount. The following outlines the usual payment arrangements.

Generally speaking, the bride’s family pay for:

• invitations and all wedding stationery for church and reception
  
• bride’s and bridesmaids’ dresses and accessories
  
• flowers for the church and reception
  
• photographer/videographer
  
• all reception costs, music, etc. (excluding drinks, barmen and related expenses)
  
• the wedding cake.

The groom and his family pay for:

• legal expenses (antenuptial contract)
  
• ceremony expenses (marriage officer’s fee, organist, choir, soloist, tips, etc.)
  
• the bride’s and bridesmaids’ bouquets, as well as buttonholes and
• corsages for the wedding party
  
• hiring of clothes for himself and best man, if necessary
  
• gifts for the bridesmaids and best man
  
• drinks at the reception and related expenses, i.e hiring of barmen,
• hiring of glasses, etc.
  
• transport for the bride to the church and reception
  
• accommodation on the wedding night and for the honeymoon.