Mix, we paid cash..... 50% up front, 25% 1 week before, 25% day of, if I remember right, but it was 15 years ago.
I told my wife that if she wanted that many people ( I LITERALLY wanted to invite less than 30 people, but she had a fit about the un-eveness ( sp? ) that would create ), that if she wanted so many people, we had to pay cash because I wasn't starting our like together in debt. So we sold some stocks and used the profits to pay for the wedding. In the end, I had about 75 of the 227 guests. And really, I would have been fine if there were only about 20 people there. I would have been happy at a fire hall, beef and beer style. But my wife is the exact opposite of me in that regard; she likes to do things all expensive and showy.
I told my wife that if she wanted that many people ( I LITERALLY wanted to invite less than 30 people, but she had a fit about the un-eveness ( sp? ) that would create ), that if she wanted so many people, we had to pay cash because I wasn't starting our like together in debt. So we sold some stocks and used the profits to pay for the wedding. In the end, I had about 75 of the 227 guests. And really, I would have been fine if there were only about 20 people there. I would have been happy at a fire hall, beef and beer style. But my wife is the exact opposite of me in that regard; she likes to do things all expensive and showy.
