Zelda Pienaar said:

Our wedding date is set for the 11 December 2010. Only me and my future husband is paying. (Don't really have an idea if we will be able to make it) We opened a savings Account at CAPITEC Bank, and we're putting all our savings every month into the account.  When birthdays come up, we would rather ask for money into the account than a gift. 

Ayanda Boco said:

Well seeing that Africans have to pay the lobola, we used half of the money for catering. Everything else me and my new hubby payed everything. It seemed a lot st first but now the wedding is over it was just all worth it. I am also proud to say we owe no one all our suppliers were fully payed before the wedding.

Nicolette van Niekerk said:

We got a lump sum from my parents, but the greater sum (about 90%) will be paid by us – by choice. At least when you pay for your own wedding, you get to have the final say!

Gerda Rosenthal said:

Both the bride & Bridegroom's parents

Shirley Strachan:

The bride herself is paying

Ziyanda Ndlovu said:

My husband and i are both paying for our western wedding. We got married in December 2008 and will only be doing the white wedding this year 2010. We are getting some assistance though from my family but the major expenses are on us.

Phidelia Cornelson said:

Me and my fiance

Nosiphiwo Mbata said:

Me and my fiance

Tanya Lotz said:

Oh my goodness, I have been scheming and plotting and planning for about a year now, but there is just no way that I can afford to spend so much money on one day,  the best day of my life and the day I have been dreaming of since I was a little girl playing in my mothers shoes, dresses, and... make up,  and I am definitely not able to manage to pay for such a high loan amount monthly. Since neither mom nor dad are around anymore, and it is not really my poor fiance's fault that he fell in love with a young lady who has no parents,  it is entirely up to me to pay for my wedding. My fiance and I have been together for over four years now and are one of those very special tight couples that just go very well together, we have discussed a wedding many times but both of us are just not at the right financial high,  this makes me sad sometimes because we are just so good together and love each other intensely, we also do not want to have any children before our wedding day. We met when we where 17 years old and over time we where sort of pushed together due to the circumstances in which we where surrounded, this made us very strong as a couple and led us to create new possibilities for our life together. We got engaged in March 2009, and have agreed to disagree on a court wedding due to the fact that... I only want to do this once and feel that it would only be once, I don't want to go and get married in court and for the rest of my life continue dreaming of that day that didn't come. Others always say, don't spend too much money on the wedding, and keep it small and this and that,  they are not the bride and they simply do not understand how much a well put together and descent wedding would mean to a bride,  a cheap wedding that is not well put together and does not represent a couple or lifts their spirits is just like sending your child to school with half of the amount of books and stationary in a little plastic PicknPay packet, in my opinion. Yes, the right thought in this scenario should probably be that money does not really matter, lets just do it for the love, however,  even though your wedding day might be expensive, you are doing it for the love as well as the love of your future together, you are not doing it for the money.  Can I really put a price to such a memory? Maybe one day.

Lebogang LM. Nkadimeng said:

My husband to be is paying for everything. In the Bapedi culture, the man pays for everything. It makes sense for me!

Natasha Oudbier said:

My dad paid for our wedding, I'm the baby so it was a huge day for him…. And for us…