# How much did your wedding cost? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-wedding-cost/549051 "2010-08-03T20:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-wedding-cost/549051/101 "2010-08-11T19:47:51Z")
$1500 tops for 25 people in 1978, with lunch at a nice restaurant and including renting the hall and the Ethical Culture Society guy who married us, and a “rehearsal” dinner for everyone who attended the wedding and was there. It might have been less - it was well within budget. It was also the biggest wedding that anyone in three generations of our families had. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-wedding-cost/549051/102 "2010-08-11T20:05:39Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > $1500 tops for 25 people in 1978, with lunch at a nice restaurant and including renting the hall and the Ethical Culture Society guy who married us, and a “rehearsal” dinner for everyone who attended the wedding and was there. It might have been less - it was well within budget. It was also the biggest wedding that anyone in three generations of our families had. That’s $4,000 - $6,000 in todays dollars, depending on how you calculate the relative value of a dollar. But using the Consumer Price Index, it is equivalent to $4900. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-wedding-cost/549051.md?page=5)