What traditionally are the groom's parents responsible to pay for during the wedding planning and wedding?

Answer 1

Parents of the Groom

Traditionally, contribute financially to the following:

-Purchasing engagement ring/bride's wedding ring

-Rehearsal Dinner the night before the wedding

-Honeymoon

It would be very offensive to the bride's family for the groom or his family to offer to pay for anything else, unless it is under very special circumstances.

The groom's family is NOT obligated under any circumstance to pay for alcohol, except the alcohol at the rehearsal dinner! If it is agreed that alcohol be served at the reception, it goes on the bride's parents' tab!

Parents of the Bride

The bride's parents may be responsible for hosting the wedding, if they will be completely financially responsible for the event. In some cases, the father of the bride escorts his daughter down the aisle alone, but in other instances or in religious ceremonies, both parents may accompany the bride. In all cases, it's her preference. The mother of the bride may help fund or contribute to the planning of the bridal shower if the Maid of Honor needs assistance. These parents may also foot the cost of an engagement party or dinner to meet the groom's family.

The old tradition is that the Groom's parents should pay for the alcohol. Since there are always those few that make pigs of themselves when the alcohol is free it's acceptable to give tickets to the bar for two free drinks (legal for driving after a meal of course.) Some father's pay the whole bar bill, but it can be expensive. Since there are so many divorced parents now and one may be a single parents the above suggestions are right on.

The rehearsal dinner

It is perfectly acceptable and tradition for the the parents of the groom, (or groom), to also be financially responsible for the

-marriage license

-Brides bouquet

-Transportation of Bride and Groom after reception (get-away car; limo)

-Transportation of Groomsmen to ceremony

-Grooms/Groomsmen formal wear

-Boutonnieres for groom/groomsmen

-Corsages for bride and brides family

-The bar tab at the reception.

Additionally, it's perfectly acceptable for the grooms parents and/or the brides parents not to pay any of the associated costs of the wedding if the couple to be are being disrespectful little pigs.

Traditionally, the bride's parents paid for the ceremony and reception, the bride's attire, and her dowry. The groom's parents paid for the rehearsal dinner and the officiant, and sometimes the alcohol. The groom paid for the honeymoon and the rings.

For the most part, these traditions went out the window when women stopped being property of her father and then husband, and when the couple stopped getting married right out of their parents' homes. Today, anything goes. Typically, the couple pays for a large portion, and sometimes the parents gift whatever they can afford to help out, sometimes in exchange for control over some portion of the planning. No one has any duties or responsibilities other than the couple.

Answer 2

Traditionally (in western culture) the grooms' parents paid for the rehearsal dinner, the alcohol, and according to tradition, sometimes the minister.

The brides' parents paid for the ceremony and reception, the bride's attire, as well as the brides' dowry.

The groom paid for the rings and honeymoon, as well as his own attire.

The bride couldn't have her own money, so she was unable to pay for anything.

Today, those traditions are gone. Now, the parents on either side offer what they can/want to contribute, and the couple is ultimately responsible, and covers whatever their parents' gifts don't.

Answer 3

Typically they pay for the rehersal dinner only.

Answer 4

Traditionally it is the bride's parents who pay for the wedding.

Answer 5

The groom's parents typically pay for the expenses of the rehearsal dinner. I think that's all.