Saving Money On Your Wedding - Try the Courthouse

Now, there are plenty of people who dream of a frilly white wedding that costs the earth. I’m not one of them, and neither, apparently, is Jennifer whose wedding (and wedding night) cost a grand total of $303.50.

Some people can easily spend $30,000 or more on a wedding, and that’s a huge amount of money that - especially these days - would be better spent as a house deposit or (more likely) in paying off debts, rather than creating more. Few people can expect their parents to have that kind of spare cash lying around either.

Jennifer managed to keep her wedding costs to $300 by getting married at the local courthouse, then having a nice meal and staying at a resort overnight with her new husband. When I got married, we also had the ceremony in the town hall (in Germany) and had a lunch afterwards with family members, and a night in a nice hotel in a nearby village. I bought a wedding dress that was on sale, but I loved it. I don’t feel any less “married” and it sounds like Jennifer doesn’t either. And neither of us are in debt from the minute our marriage starts, which certainly seems like a smart thing.