Next to decide, will the ceremony be formal, semiformal or informal? The more formal the more expensive the wedding will be.

So once decided, who pays for what at the wedding? Over the last dozen years the lines between what the bride’s family and the grooms family pays for have begun to blur.  No longer does the father of the bride bear all the responsibility, quite often the parents of the groom share the costs and the bride and groom chip in.

Below is nothing but a guideline to start form, there are no longer any hard and fast rules as to who pays for what.