<prompt> Human: If youd like, please include your age at the time and how you received financing. And why. Thanks! Edit: Thanks for all the replies! So many great things to think about!  <response>: This will be unpopular here Id imagine, but we had a lavish wedding, cost of around 50k, which we saved in the two year engagement period. We put a further 10k or so on credit, which was the honeymoon, but we asked our guests for cash which paid off more than half of that. We were 22, with several benefits being that we graduated very young into high paying jobs, both had no debt and very little overhead cost of living during our engagement. While that 50-60k would have stood us in good stead had it been saved in stead, we never ever regretted it. Its not possible to look back on our wedding with any tinge of regret, no matter what wealth we might someday accrue, there will never be a single thing we wish we could have done better or spent more on honeymoon included and it developed in us an excellent savings habit, a great base for our relationship, and an enormous sense of pride having been able to afford our dream wedding at a young age. We wouldnt have gone into tremendous debt to do it, but seeing as we were afforded the unique opportunity to do what we did at our young age, we still view it as an investment in us that paid off. 1.5 years later, we are still very happy, look back on the occasion often, and greatly enjoy our photosvideosmementos. We are now starting to save for our future a little more diligently, as our savings did continue after marriage, but have been spent on an amazing first few years together really nice apartment, lot of travel, setting up our house together, etc etc... Anyway, theres my story. 