Got married in 1988. Bought my wedding dress through a jcpenny catalog $300 because the model that was wearing kinda looked like me. Which is unheard of in today’s society. I actually didn’t try on any wedding dresses beforehand. Fortunately it looked great and I had a friend who was a seamstress offer to take it in at the waist as my gift. Bridesmaids bought their dresses thankfully. Groomsmen tuxedos rentals his mom paid. She paid for reception, catering, and hall we rented. We paid for church, singer, pastor, flowers, invitations, candles, photographer, cake plus our rings. His mom made fans for the bridesmaids to walk down with. Both our rings were a grand total of around $800? My parents paid for nothing. Sooo we paid maybe a total of $1500-$2000 including rings. We’ve been married going on 32 years. On our 30th anniversary my husband bought me a beautiful ring with 3 diamonds that I now have connected with my wedding band.