Please offer guidance on traditional american wedding?

In a traditional american wedding, I understand that bride's parents take care of reception expenses. Who would be responsible for alcohol, photography and flowers? Thank you in advance.

Please offer guidance on traditional american wedding?
The thing is, very few weddings are traditional in that sense anymore. For my own wedding, my fiancee and I are paying for the ceremony and reception, and my dad is paying for the honeymoon.





I don't think you can automatically expect parents to cover any of the expenses; you need to discuss it with them first and ask what (if any) they are willing to pay.





While I do know some people whose parents have paid for a large part of the wedding, I also know others whose parents haven't had the resources to help much at all. So, it really all depends on the family.
Reply:Alcohol is included in the price of the food, unless you requested to not have it.





Pictures will be kept by the couple so should be covered by the couple. Flowers are not needed so whoever wants them should pay for them.
Reply:usually on first weddings,brides parents pay for reception expenses. the grooms parents pay for the rehearsal expense and the bride and groom pay for the rest.
Reply:well. the groom pays for the Elvis impersonator, and the couple shares the expense of the slot machine
Reply:In a "traditional" wedding those expenses are on the bride's family as well.


But weddings aren't as traditional as they once were. Couples are paying for things themselves as well as both sets of parents. If what you are choosing is out of your parent's budget you need to pay for them yourself or find a less expensive option. No wedding should put a financial burden on any one.
Reply:alcohol the grooms parents are usually responsible for.


Photography and flowers the parents if they agree to pay for your wedding I got lucky mine did
Reply:It used to be the brides parents paid for those things but that's not really the case anymore at all. It not the responsibility of any parent to pay for anything..it's nice if they do but not a responsibility.
Reply:In "traditional american weddings" the brides family pays for EVERYTHING. Luckily, the word traditional has been thrown out the window. Anyone can pay for anything now. Groom's parents are helping out. Brides and grooms are paying for it themselves. Everybody's chipping in. A girlfriend of mine got married last year and neither set of parents could afford to pay, so her best friend footed the bill. There are no laws that say any one person HAS to pay. Happy planning!
Reply:usually the bride's family pays for the dress, reception,and truseau. the groom's family pays for the rehersal dinner, the groom pays for the clergy or officiant. you might want to pick up a bride's magazine or ettiquette book. all that information would be in there.


good luck!
Reply:no one has a traditional wedding nowadays.... however usually (as tradition goes) the brides family takes care of all the wedding arrangements because this is like a "sending off "of their loved one to someone who is going to take care of her the rest of her life. today we live in a society where most familys have two incomes and the husband and wife share in the expences and the brides family is just there for moral support. so if your husband is going to take care of you then as tradition goes you and your family would take care of all the arrangements from the church to the reception ( the man payes for the honeymoon)


Dont forget you have to have someting old , something new, something borrowed, and something blue for your traditional american wedding (congradulations)