1991, and no idea.
It was the last part of my life paid for by my parents.
About ninety bucks, for the license.
Getting married at the height of Covid had a lot of drawbacks, but not being able to invite anyone sure kept the wedding costs down.
I guess a corollary thread could be: “Do you regret how much you spent on your wedding?” This could go either way…the el cheapo wedding (like mine, which I don’t regret for a minute) or the super expensive wedding which may or may not involve regrets.
If I had to do it again I would expend about 200 dollars and invite everybody to an asado at my home, something I couldn’t do in 2003 because I didn’t have the money, the asado making skills (I still don’t but my wife learned amazingly fast once she got her hands in our new parrilla) or the home (I lived in an appartment).
That said, I do not regret my cheap wedding, it was beautiful (specially my wife!) and everybody had a blast.
1990 maybe $500, we were both broke university students.
Wedding at local park; only invited parents, siblings and grandparents; reception was at my parents home; maybe a $100 for fabric, my mother and wife are both fine seamstresses; $100 for cake; $200 for flowers; $100 for officiating; And just basic wedding bands
35 years later and we are still married, so pretty good return on investment.
When you count the sunken jet ski and the $20k of damage to the pontoon boat, pretty sure my wedding to Laura (first wife) easily exceeded $50k. The harpist alone was $1k. 1994 wedding.
I didn’t spend this, of course. My parents did.
Regardless, not including the damage, I ‘just’ put $10k-$50k.
That’s a big advantage for having a wedding in a nonstandard venue. We had our daughter’s at a city park, and got a couple of cases of wine from the local BevMo and had the caterer pour it for a lot less than it would have been at a restaurant. We’re drinking that type of wine to this very day.
Got married in 1992, just a few months after graduating with $16,000.00 of college debt.
My parents paid the approximate $8,000.00 for the wedding, and we took over most of the college debt, which originally my parents were going to pay.
Wedding was at a restaurant on the water and we had food stations, plus wine and champagne. The wedding was at 1, and we had had the pictures done before the wedding, so everyone was able to go directly from the wedding to the reception and start eating appetizers. No beer, as I didn’t like the smell. Basically a buffet, but with different tables, each one having different food. One of them was seafood, but I couldn’t tell you what else we had, besides a wedding cake which was half spice cake and half mocha. We also had a string trio. We had to be out of there by 7pm, and I think there was no problem.
About 3 weeks later we went to a friend’s wedding. The pictures took about 3 hours, so the bride and groom were so late to the reception, and people weren’t allowed to eat until they arrived, that there was only about an hour for everyone to eat. And it was a sit-down dinner / late lunch.
Some € 3000 perhaps (or 3500 € with all incidental cost), in 2018, between the civil wedding and the church wedding three weeks later. That covered admin fees, a small lunch with immediate family after the civil wedding, rent of a chapel in the wineyards for the church wedding, a donation for church music in acknowledgement of the extra work the organist put in for playing a piece of my choice, from The Pirates of Penzance, and mostly catering for 25 guests in my father in law’s house. The opportunity cost of my wife’s time and mine would have much exceeded the cash cost of course.