Wedding expenses in your wedding?

I bore a tiny part of the wedding expenses and most of the expense was bore by my father. Reception is by my husband

 

our wedding was held at dh's place, so the total wedding expenses was bore by dh and his father.
the reception was held at my place, so the total course was held by my mother and brother.

 

Mine is an inter-religion marriage. The wedding was a registration only. We had two small receptions, for one my husband and I paid. The other one was paid by my in-laws My parents and family attended both the receptions.

 

My wedding was paid for by my dad at my place and the reception at my in-laws place was paid for by my inlaws

 

I paid for my wedding. I sent money as part of dowry or whatever my ILs called it, to my ILs, which they used for the wedding expenses. For the expenses from my side, gave close to 20L to dad, to buy gold etc, and all the other nonsense. Irony is that I didn't receive a single gift from PILs. But who cares, I have stood up to my values and my family.

 

Ours is a love marriage. Both families shared the expenses. My dad had saved a good amount for the wedding and he spent from there. We did not have a lavish wedding so the expenses were reasonable. I did not buy any gold. I used whatever I already had and for the actual ceremony used my mom's, aunt's and grand mom's jewelry.

 

Our wedding expenses were shared fifty fifty. Actually in our custom we are supposed to have separate marriage halls for both bride and groom with expenses being borne by respective parties. Since we didn't get two marriage halls, we settled for one and shared the expenses (basically Hall, food)

 

nowadays it is common to see wedding paid by girls and reception paid by the boys side