Who pays for weddings?

[Kumbaya12]

Did anybody have their parents contribute? Or entirely self-funded? What stage of life were you at (young couple, already living together with kids etc)

Just curious

My parents paid for everything for our wedding, we didn’t go OTT and including honeymoon it was less than 10k. We were in our 30’s had our own home and 5 children between us but they wanted to do it for us.

We are late 20s/early 30s and have just had a £50k wedding (paid for accommodation for 80 family and friends, some for 2 nights).

We earn significantly more than either set of parents and would not have felt right letting them pay. My MIL paid for the photographer as her gift to us and my parents gifted us £5k- their stipulation was that they wanted this to pay for my dress and anything left we could put towards what we wanted. They also asked for 4 of their friends to be added to the guest list in exchange for this but I would have invited them anyway as they are my godparents. As a lot of our budget went on accommodation for our own friends/partners family from overseas I would not have been comfortable accepting any more from them.

30s
We paid for everything.
Ma money, ma rulz.

Made it much easier to tell the in-laws to do one when they started with the random demands.

We are paying for our own.

We are a couple in our 30’s and have a child, own house etc.

My mum paid £200 towards my dress and my partners dad paid for her suit. Other than that we’ve paid the rest.

Married once and have a second booked this year. Both self funded.

We self funded. We were late 20s, living together, no kids at the time. The guest list was entirely our choosing, some relatives were invited to the whole thing, some to the evening and some weren't invited at all.

Late 20's/early 30's, pre-kids. Fairly low key wedding, having bought a wreck of a house a year earlier that we were renovating. Both wedding and house were entirely self funded, we didn't expect or ask for contributions. Neither of us is from wealthy backgrounds and no one in our immediate families has had a big/expensive wedding.

But we were totally shocked to receive wedding gifts of a few thousand from both sets of parents, which not only paid for an incredible honeymoon but helped a lot with the house too.

Self funded.
I can't imagine being a grown adult with a home and children, or even living out of home for years with no children, having mummy and daddy pay for my wedding. Such a waste of money I'd prefer them to enjoy themselves.
If I, or now my children, are old enough and responsible enough to be completely independent then asking, or having someone else, pay for your party just feels entitled.

First marriage my parents paid a third. Exh parents paid nothing as they were paying for all of sils wedding.
Second wedding my parents gave 2k dh parents gave 5k (same as sil. ) this paid for whole wedding so we paid honey moon

Our parents paid for everything and my lovely mil planned the whole event. We literally had to just turn up!