For any who care to help, a personal question for you. BF and I have been discussing weddings (gasp, choke, I'm too young for this!!) and trying to figure out a budget. He's VERY much of the mind that we will not accept a dime from our parents and must pay every penny ourselves. If they wish to contribute (as I know my parents will), then they can give us a large gift at the wedding. yeah, fine, whatever. So I'm curious, what was your wedding budget? Did you stick to it? What's a decent range for a non-massive but still nice wedding? I've seen everything from 5k to 50k and it seems that 25k was the most common. This just seems like an EXORBITANT amount of money, but maybe I'm just being cheap? So, how much did ya'll fork out for your big day? :P