Is it OK to call off a wedding after discovering how much everything is going to cost?

Question

Suppose a couple just get engaged and start planning a wedding. They decide to break the engagement after they find out how much everything is going to cost.

Answer 1

there is no reason to call off a wedding because of the cost. the only things one absolutely must have at a wedding are the couple, the wedding officiant and one or two witnesses. the rest is all icing on the cake and not at all mandatory. a wedding can cost anywhere from 100 dollars to 100,000 or more. the costs are totally in the control of the couple who are being married. if they don't have much to spend, then they have a small inexpensive wedding...but they do not call off the wedding and certainly do not break the engagement. if the couple breaks the engagement over this, then they had no real intentions of being married to start with and are better off separating.

Answer 2

Call of wedding to save money? Sure, then reorganize and make sure this time the wedding costs less. But to call off a relationship forever, like never getting married because your partner pissed you off for wasting so much money? Then no, and talk to your partner about expenses and how you can decrease it (if there is still time left). If it's too late to save any costs, then pls just get married unless you don't want to get married for the right reasons (like your partner being a douche, cheater, ungrateful or not compatible with you).

Answer 3

If you love each other you don't need to have a big wedding. You can just have two witnesses and get married or if you can afford say to have your very best friends and your immediate family. You haven't said who is paying for it but the marriage might last for years and the wedding and maybe a reception for a few hours so which is more important the years of being married or the few hours? Get your priorities in order.

Answer 4

Sure. Any marriage based on the cost of the wedding would seem a bad decision anyway. People can get married, or not, for next to nothing. If one of the couple demands a wedding they are not able to pay for... call off the wedding!

Answer 5

You don't need a reason to call off a wedding. That said, that reason is a pretty bullshit reason when you realize that a wedding costs whatever you want it to cost. It can cost as little as the price of a license and officiant, it can cost six figures, and it can cost anywhere in between. You set your budget, not the wedding industry.

Answer 6

If you're going to get married, you need to be financially ready. You should think about this before hand. Once you're engaged, you don't need to rush into planning a wedding and telling family and friends a date and time. You can have a long engagement while you work on saving up enough money to have the wedding.

Answer 7

That's really no reason to call off a wedding, if you truly love each other and want to be married. You can either elope or have an inexpensive wedding with just your nearest and dearest present.

Answer 8

As others have pointed out, a wedding can be as small and simple as you want.



I would suspect they didn't "break the engagement" over the cost of the wedding. I suspect the engagement was broken because they realized they had very different philosophies about how money is wisely spent.

Answer 9

By everything do you mean the wedding, or your entire married life? If you just mean the wedding, you can make it as small and affordable as you want. If you mean you can't afford to be married, period, then that's a different thing. But even then you don't have to break the engagement if you don't want to. You can just wait a few more years to get married.

Answer 10

They are doing the right thing by planning! If they are in love why break off the engagement? Have a small engagement party with close friends only. Plan for the wedding when they both can afford to do so.

Answer 11

It's always OK to call off a wedding if that is what the couple wants. The reason doesn't need explaining. If both parties agree, then it's fine to call it off.

Answer 12

I guess it's very culture dependant but to me that sounds so silly. Make a wedding as simple and small as needed, the important is to get married not to have a big wedding.

Answer 13

You don't need a reason to call off a wedding.

Answer 14

Sure, call off the wedding but why break the engagement? You can get married without needing to make it a production. Go to the courthouse and get married.

Answer 15

IMO its a STUPID reason to call off a wedding. Figure out how to have a smaller and less expensive wedding.

Answer 16

Yes because they're too immature to be married.



Either plan a wedding you can afford (translation - scale back) or save some money until you can plan the wedding you want.

Answer 17

A bit silly. They could always replan the wedding to be cheaper.

Answer 18

There is no reason to have such an expensive wedding in the first place.

Answer 19

Sure but you can still go to the courthouse and get married, but only if you both are truly in love !

Answer 20

Rather than breaking the engagement cut down the cost and proceed .

Answer 21

Well if they wait and earn enough money then they can plan the wedding

Answer 22

It sounds like the two are way to immature to understand anything about getting married.

Answer 23

If they are that stupid that they can't simply plan within their means, they probably have no business getting married.

Answer 24

That wouldn't make any sense. Just budget, that's all.

Answer 25

NO..Just scale back a little

Answer 26

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Answer 27

Just do it cheaper... Elope!