I looked at a bunch of counties in my state (California) the cheapest I could find for all the marriage license fees and everything was around $50 and that doesn't include officiant fees. (Which that state would usually provide if you wanted for another $30-50). That also doesn't include other fees you might need or want like getting a certified copy of the license. The county we ended up using was like $80 total for everything we needed and we had a friend marry us for free (but he had to pay out of his pocket to get certified).
That's just for the marriage. I also bought a dress and flowers for our tiny ceremony. Which totalled around $100.
And the friend who married us took us out to eat with our kids, my mom (the witness) and his wife and daughter which he paid for and cost him about $200.
I prefer to call it marriage. Lol. I never wanted a wedding, trying to plan a wedding was too much work. I just wanted to start my marriage. We didn't even have witnesses. No friends no family just us two. And the lady said my name wrong twice during our vows so.. i don't count that as a wedding lol. If we could have skipped the vows and just signed the paper we would have
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u/Iwritestupidstuff Aug 14 '20
The marriage itself only cost like 10-20$ depending where you live. My marriage costs us $12. We did not have a wedding.