Question by : Wedding Tradition- Bridesmaids and Groomsmen Attire?
I need a little advice! I'm from the US and my fiance is from England. We're getting married this summer and our wedding is going to be in the US where we currently reside. We had planned on paying for the whole wedding ourselves, but both sets of parents have offered to help out since neither one of us have the finances to manage a wedding alone.
My parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner, reception, and my wedding dress. His parents are paying for the church and transportation to the ceremony. My fiance and I are responsible for additional costs such as music for the reception, photographer, invitations, favors, gifts for bridal party, flowers, marriage license, fees for his green card, honeymoon etc.
The additional costs are adding up and I explained to my fiance we might need to cut some of the unnecessary items off our list (honeymoon) in order to pay for what we really need. Such as his green card, the marriage license and music. Just yesterday my fiance explained to me that we were responsible for paying for the bridesmaid/groomsmen attire for the wedding. This is something I was unaware of, and every wedding I've been in I ended up paying for my own dress- and thought nothing of it. But my fiance explained it is English tradition and he doesn't want to insult anyone. He was also only planning on paying for the bridal party that are from England, not the ones from the US. Which whether we have the money or not I think that would offend my US bridal party members- one of them being my brother who is a groomsman.
Is it wrong of me to say that I think the bridal party would understand that we're just not in the place financially to afford their attire? Would his family be offended if we didn't stick to this tradition?
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