A bit of advice please...
We've booked our venue, food, music (still a way to go with other suppliers but thanks to covid our wedding is now 2023...) General planning is going pretty well and I feel like I can finally get excited about wedding planning again!
I'm just wondering how everyone is/has managed their budgets... I feel a bit awkward bringing it up, but there's a few things bugging me about our wedding budget. I've always been very independent, owned my own home etc... so maybe I'm just stuck in that mindset. Any thoughts/advice would really be appreciated...
My parents are contributing a significant amount to our wedding, my fiancé's parents haven't offered anything (we've been engaged for 2 years and had the venue booked for at least 6 months)
I have a very small family and my fiancé has a very big one. He has added a lot of family to the guest list (aunts, uncles, distant cousins that I have never met and that he hasn't seen even in the time before covid)
He has recently asked can we add another 2 couples to the guest list (friends of friends who he has socialised with recently)
Really, I want to know - do you think the wedding cost should be split 50/50? Even when the difference in guest numbers and parental contribution is so vast? Am I just being tight? Am I overthinking it?