So it was a wedding with 46 guest consuming 33 packages of cigarettes and 50 cigars.... thats so 1961
And they already seemed to have their Karen. One position of a Strammer Max (warm bread with ham and fried egg) despited having a fixed cold dinner for everyone.
And still a steal by today’s insane wedding package pricing!
Most sites say you’re going full budget if you’re anything less than 10k, and that was when I was doing the research for mine in 2019. :|
I managed mine with honey moon included for $25k. Ceremony, cocktail hour (open bar til 10pm), and reception all included.
It’s expensive but doesn’t have to that outrageous.
I did mine for like $5k. The most expensive thing was having food catered and that was with 100 guests in 2014. Granted I am lucky that my city parks have beautiful facilities you can rent out and back then the rentals weren't online. You just had to camp out the night before so you could sign up at the office in the morning exactly one year prior. My barn that I rented only cost $450. Now it's online and you have to be lucky enough to sign up at exactly midnight.
Here in the U.S., hosts sometimes gave out small packs of two or three cigarettes as party favors.
My mom quit smoking after she married my dad (who never smoked), and they went to a party one evening where everybody got the small gift packs. A guy at the party bet my mom a box of chocolate-covered cherries that if she smoked all three cigarettes, she'd get hooked again. She smoked them but did not continue smoking after that -- but she never got the candy.
They ware social people.
But its was normal also by birthday party's
If frends where coming beer @ cigarettes on the table. Pall mal luyky strike caballero
- Hochzeitskostenendbetrag
- final Wedding expenses
Here you go. Btw there is no _ë_ in German, we only use _ä_, _ü_ and _ö_. ~~Ë is a scandinavien letter.~~
Not to be that guy but **ë** is not used in a single Scandinavian language. It is however used in Dutch, which is similar to German, in English, French and a bunch of others: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8B)
In 2010 I paid over $1000 just for Slovenian sausage for my wedding. And I still have no regrets!
Edit: to the young and in love, if your mother tells you to invite all the distant relatives because, and I quote, “they won’t come but they will send a gift” don’t believe her! I funded an unsanctioned family reunion. Largest check I had written in my life up to that point.
It’s hard to say. I wasn’t crunching the numbers back then. I was just so excited that suddenly the love I had for my wife wasn’t a sin! Never expected god to be so focused on paperwork.
Unconditional love. With conditions.
You don't have to have a $250,000 wedding. Wife and I saved and had a 100 person wedding for about $3000. Got married in a park which was a free reserve, rented chairs from a church was like $100, friend got ordained and was the preacher, wife got a secondhand dress (who gives a shit), rented cheap hall on an off day, simple food for the reception and we provided beer. People loved our wedding.
Can we as millennials and Gen Z “kill” expensive prestige weddings next? I think there have been studies showing that as the wedding gets more over-the-top expensive, it becomes less likely that the marriage will last. This obviously may not apply in places like India, where there’s enormous societal pressure to stay together no matter what.
Our daughter and son-in-law had about 100 guests (they have a lot of family and friends, so had to leave a lot off the list) and had a great party for low five figures. We helped but they paid for quite a lot (they were almost in their 30s and had good jobs). No need to break the bank, even with dinner and adult beverages (thank you, Woodbridge wine). It was also family friendly; we had lots of very well-behaved little ones dancing in a circle. Live entertainment!
Sounds nice and low-key. My cousin is having a reception in a few months, and she’s marrying into a large family of Indian Muslims (she’s white and from the Midwest, but they’re apparently supportive). I’m almost dreading it because I just know it’s going to be a massive deal, and the actual wedding itself will be as well.
My wife & I had only 1 attendant to our wedding: Jesus Christ. No guests, no dance floor, no water pan Buffett food, no dress or tuxedo. Us. Priest. Great outdoors. Submitted the license to the courts, married now almost 4 years
All you can do is try. I spent $2k on my wedding and it was super nice, we just kept it small and didn't buy anything marketed as "wedding". I tell my kids all the time they should have the wedding they want, not the one marketing tells them they have to have, but that's only 2 of Gen Z, everyone else needs to get on the other 100k of them.
It says “1000 DM received, 59,80 DM to pay” and on the very bottom they confirmed to have received the 59,80 DM. The bill was for food and drinks (coffee and cake, and sandwiches for dinner) plus tobacco for some reason.
Likely, this was held at a room at a restaurant, at no additional charge for the room. They did have to pay for a waiter though (“Kellner” billed for 40DM).
My grandpa said he made about 7k as a postal worker in 64... so prolly not 2k lol. Combined with his wife's income, less than 600 for a wedding is insanely cheap compared to today.
Edit. In the 60s and 70s the exchange rate was 4DM/Dollar. So your grandparents paid $250. There’s a more complicated conversion for German inflation as they nicknamed the Euro the Teuero. Teuer means expensive and rhymes in German. But yeah…. On the same note. My German family literally has weddings all the time (it’s a big family). They never spend like Americans. OK I’m locked into this. I found a historic DM to Euro calculator and I’d says that’s only 651 Euros today… So, thank you for the most interesting r/mildlyinteresting post I’ve seen in a while awhile.
My grandparents paid $5000 cash for their whole house on 6 acres in 1963. We're selling it now for a lot more than that....and it didn't get younger or newer.
They had cake and coffee and sandwiches for dinner. I think that would be possible on the cheap side today as well. And it’s only food and drinks and most likely the location.
The titanic was built for 7 million USD (1909-1912). Modern AIDA cruisers are around one billion each. Inflation is wild if you switch from your human perspective on time to a larger scale.
I paid $100 for a retired judge to marry me & my wife in our Studio apartment with my mom & sister and 3 of our friends as witnesses on February 13th, 1999.
I paid $100 for 25 dark chocolate covered strawberries (her favorite) as an anniversary gift 3 days ago.
In 1989, I paid $500 ($1,243 in 2024 money) for my entire wedding including my dress, the minister's fee, licensing, food, etc.
It's about what you do and how you do it, not about the event itself. Weddings are more expensive now because they're much more ostentatious and expectations have really changed. People had much simpler weddings and celebrations in the past.
I feel like that's a lot for 1961. That's probably the most I'd spend in 2024. The concept of spending in excess of $1000 on a wedding is frighteningly normalized in the West.
About what we paid for our wedding in 1973 (people brought food, etc.).
Still married 50+ years later while so many of our friends who paid lots of $$$s for their weddings are divorced.
According to my sources, the average exchange rate in 1961 was close to 4DM / 1 USD, making your dollar figure too high.
1,059 DMs in 1961 would have been closer to 264.75 US dollars!
I paid $250 for my wedding in 2019. We were married by a brewery tour guide, on Valentine's Day, at the brewery, under a pergola covered with fake hops, with a bunch of beer fermenters in the background.
We received the ceremony, a corsage and bouquet, a pair of T-shirts, a cake, two beers, and an order of cheese curds for our 250 buckaroos. Best value ever! We had about a dozen friends and family there in attendance. We wouldn't change a single thing.
We had our "reception" in Italy a few months later, and had about 30 friends attend. We rented a 26 bedroom palace/villa for the week and covered everyone's lodging, wine tours, truffle hunting, etc. What we spent for the week wouldn't even come close to covering the catering bill for the average American wedding. I think the whole shebang was just over $10k. Our friends still tell us it was one of the best experiences of their lives.
My parents had a $1000 wedding in 1980. Buffet dinner. No limo, my mom’s brother drove her to the church (and was late). My mom’s dress was $79 in sale.
So roughly $5,982.67 in today's dollars. Still a hell of lot more than my wife and I spent getting married at the County Clerk's office on our lunch break.
That’s about the right price for a wedding:
Adjusted for inflation, $580 in 1961 would be approximately $5,066.06 today.
The average hourly wage was about $2.25 an hour and about $5,315 average annual income in 1961.
Looks like it was about 4 DEM to the USD in 1961. So that makes it more like $265.
That's just the food/drinks/cake though. Doesn't include the venue, officiant, wedding dress, etc.
(Assuming that this is from Germany) Your inflation and conversion is off. 1059 Deutschmarks from 1961 is the equivalent of $USD 2,730.88 today. Back in 1961 the exchange rate between Deutschmarks and the USD was just over 4 marks per USD which makes it roughly $USD 264.75 and adjusting for inflation makes it $USD 2,730.88 today.
First you'd need to use the exchange rate from 1961, which was 1USD to 4.033 Marks. The wedding actually cost $262.
Covered to 2023 $ is $2697.
Can't find historical data on purchasing power parity from that long ago though, so I don't know how much cheaper it was to buy things during that time period in Germany.
Also, can't read German so I don't know if this includes everything for the wedding.
Looking at each line item and multiplying it by 2.5 (divide by 4, multiply by 10) would give you an accurate price to compare to today though.
I’m from Brazil and I’m paying about 60kish (brl)for a 150 guests marriage. It will be on october. And I’m doing a “cheap” marriage.
For conversion: about 12k USD; the minimum wage in Brazil is 1412 BRL or ~260USD so it is over 40x minimum wage.
Weddings are cheap when you have them in a gymnasium with folding chairs and plastic table cloths.
Weddings are a scam now a days.
If you really want to spend money in 10 years getting a divorce just go down to th court house and get married for 50$
In the 60s my father got a masters degree from Chicago University. The entire degree, all classes for the two years, cost $2k in total. Even accounting for inflation, that still works out to less than a single semester at Chicago University today.
Welcome to living in a country that has been in a precipitous decline for a couple decades. But hey - bootstraps and hard work, and stop complaining. Amirite?
So it was a wedding with 46 guest consuming 33 packages of cigarettes and 50 cigars.... thats so 1961 And they already seemed to have their Karen. One position of a Strammer Max (warm bread with ham and fried egg) despited having a fixed cold dinner for everyone.
$6200 in today's money
And still a steal by today’s insane wedding package pricing! Most sites say you’re going full budget if you’re anything less than 10k, and that was when I was doing the research for mine in 2019. :|
We’re wedding planning now. We live in one of the most expensive states to get married in, the average wedding is $50-60k. It’s ridiculous.
Yeah, that's when you get married at the courthouse and have the reception at a bar or someone's back yard.
A Friend is marrying this summer, pretty sure it won't be that much by a long shot. Keep in mind OPs image doesn't seem to be from the US
I managed mine with honey moon included for $25k. Ceremony, cocktail hour (open bar til 10pm), and reception all included. It’s expensive but doesn’t have to that outrageous.
I did mine for like $5k. The most expensive thing was having food catered and that was with 100 guests in 2014. Granted I am lucky that my city parks have beautiful facilities you can rent out and back then the rentals weren't online. You just had to camp out the night before so you could sign up at the office in the morning exactly one year prior. My barn that I rented only cost $450. Now it's online and you have to be lucky enough to sign up at exactly midnight.
Yep. You can definitely still throw a wedding on this budget, and most people’s weddings were a lot simpler in 1961.
Why didn't they bring their own smokes?
I guess smoking was so normal during that time that it was expected the hosts have enough cigarettes for everyone.
Only light cigarettes for the children
They did have candy or chocolate cigarettes for the non (active) smokers probably.
The children should be lighting the damn cigarettes!!
Here in the U.S., hosts sometimes gave out small packs of two or three cigarettes as party favors. My mom quit smoking after she married my dad (who never smoked), and they went to a party one evening where everybody got the small gift packs. A guy at the party bet my mom a box of chocolate-covered cherries that if she smoked all three cigarettes, she'd get hooked again. She smoked them but did not continue smoking after that -- but she never got the candy.
That's maybe the worst bet I've ever heard
Did she even exisht?
> Did she even exisht? Pretty sure BSB8878 had a mother.
Lol Sopranos?
They ware social people. But its was normal also by birthday party's If frends where coming beer @ cigarettes on the table. Pall mal luyky strike caballero
And 80 cups of coffee? Holy moley.
under 2 cups a person? how is this so shocking? might just be the finnish in me but id expect it to be almost double
At a wedding in 1961? I would’ve thought 80 glasses of schnapps!
I counted 14 bottles of hard liquor on the list, they were probably ok.
Nicotine is a stimulant already, right? So they were doubling up.
They was WIRED.
The DM/Dollar exchange rate in the early 60s was 4.00 So 1059.60 DM were around 264.90 Dollars in 1961, which are around 2733 Dollars today.
Or as the germans say, lötsöffwëddingenmönneyënn
- Hochzeitskostenendbetrag - final Wedding expenses Here you go. Btw there is no _ë_ in German, we only use _ä_, _ü_ and _ö_. ~~Ë is a scandinavien letter.~~
Not to be that guy but **ë** is not used in a single Scandinavian language. It is however used in Dutch, which is similar to German, in English, French and a bunch of others: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8B)
Thanks for correcting me. 👌
I love how you made it more swedish
Not even remotely close to swedish
In 2010 I paid over $1000 just for Slovenian sausage for my wedding. And I still have no regrets! Edit: to the young and in love, if your mother tells you to invite all the distant relatives because, and I quote, “they won’t come but they will send a gift” don’t believe her! I funded an unsanctioned family reunion. Largest check I had written in my life up to that point.
In 2013 I paid $2000 for the entire wedding
In 2021 I paid $60 Thanks, COVID
My marriage license cost more than that.
It was a covid wedding, so they only had to pay for the zoom licenses.
Suckers! I streamed mine on Twitch! Had still spent the money on my dress, cake, and a photographer who refused to refund though. 😑
Nice
But how much Slovenian sausage?
Slovenia!!!!!
Former Yu-go-slav-ia!
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It’s hard to say. I wasn’t crunching the numbers back then. I was just so excited that suddenly the love I had for my wife wasn’t a sin! Never expected god to be so focused on paperwork. Unconditional love. With conditions.
Ha, my mom got me with the same thing!
How much that is adjusted to the inflation?
According to the inflation calculator I found it's $5,982.67 in 2024 dollars.
Despite calculation from DM to USD is off and was 4,02:1 It will only translate to about $2,700 today. For about 50 people with cold buffet ok.
About $6000. Still inexpensive for a wedding today, but a lot more than I'd pay!
Just had my best friend get married in December, his total wedding was 9k for everything and it was beautiful.
You don't have to have a $250,000 wedding. Wife and I saved and had a 100 person wedding for about $3000. Got married in a park which was a free reserve, rented chairs from a church was like $100, friend got ordained and was the preacher, wife got a secondhand dress (who gives a shit), rented cheap hall on an off day, simple food for the reception and we provided beer. People loved our wedding.
Can we as millennials and Gen Z “kill” expensive prestige weddings next? I think there have been studies showing that as the wedding gets more over-the-top expensive, it becomes less likely that the marriage will last. This obviously may not apply in places like India, where there’s enormous societal pressure to stay together no matter what.
Our daughter and son-in-law had about 100 guests (they have a lot of family and friends, so had to leave a lot off the list) and had a great party for low five figures. We helped but they paid for quite a lot (they were almost in their 30s and had good jobs). No need to break the bank, even with dinner and adult beverages (thank you, Woodbridge wine). It was also family friendly; we had lots of very well-behaved little ones dancing in a circle. Live entertainment!
Sounds nice and low-key. My cousin is having a reception in a few months, and she’s marrying into a large family of Indian Muslims (she’s white and from the Midwest, but they’re apparently supportive). I’m almost dreading it because I just know it’s going to be a massive deal, and the actual wedding itself will be as well.
My wife & I had only 1 attendant to our wedding: Jesus Christ. No guests, no dance floor, no water pan Buffett food, no dress or tuxedo. Us. Priest. Great outdoors. Submitted the license to the courts, married now almost 4 years
Kill? Maybe genz can but millenials are making it worse lol.
Millennials just aren’t getting married lol, we’re broke af
All you can do is try. I spent $2k on my wedding and it was super nice, we just kept it small and didn't buy anything marketed as "wedding". I tell my kids all the time they should have the wedding they want, not the one marketing tells them they have to have, but that's only 2 of Gen Z, everyone else needs to get on the other 100k of them.
That's $6000 today and this looks like just the catering/food bill?
Unless the handwritten thing at the end is "entire wedding" (whatever it was cost 1000 marks) then yes.
It says “1000 DM received, 59,80 DM to pay” and on the very bottom they confirmed to have received the 59,80 DM. The bill was for food and drinks (coffee and cake, and sandwiches for dinner) plus tobacco for some reason. Likely, this was held at a room at a restaurant, at no additional charge for the room. They did have to pay for a waiter though (“Kellner” billed for 40DM).
They also probably only earned 2k per year... I don’t get why people keep posting this pretending they had the same salaries as people do now.
My grandpa said he made about 7k as a postal worker in 64... so prolly not 2k lol. Combined with his wife's income, less than 600 for a wedding is insanely cheap compared to today.
~10% of a salary still is a fair amount tbh. That’s 7500 USD, using the same ratio for an average us salary today.
The Median US wage is $46,000. Average salary is incredibly misleading due to incredibly inflated 1% earners.
Also redditors keep confusing individual and household income
Resditors are very often confused when economics are involved.
Thank you for the reminder that everyone needs!
Yea I guess you're right. Time/money is a trip
I mean 7k for the year? Wedding is $600? Imagine something taking a noticeable amount out of *everything* you earned for the *year* !! That's crazy!
The Median household income was $5,600 in 1960
Also, This is in Deutschmarks, not dollars.
87 liters of beer for 46 guests. Less than 2 liters a person!
Edit. In the 60s and 70s the exchange rate was 4DM/Dollar. So your grandparents paid $250. There’s a more complicated conversion for German inflation as they nicknamed the Euro the Teuero. Teuer means expensive and rhymes in German. But yeah…. On the same note. My German family literally has weddings all the time (it’s a big family). They never spend like Americans. OK I’m locked into this. I found a historic DM to Euro calculator and I’d says that’s only 651 Euros today… So, thank you for the most interesting r/mildlyinteresting post I’ve seen in a while awhile.
That is roughly $6080 today. Which is still quite a steal for a wedding.
That's nothin . I paid 300 for mine .. including the ring.
mine was closer to $800, I did buy $600 in booze for an open bar though.
Very smart.
You do know that was over 60 years ago right?
It sounds so cheap, but $580 in 1961 is about the same as $6000 today based on an inflation calculator.
My grandparents paid $5000 cash for their whole house on 6 acres in 1963. We're selling it now for a lot more than that....and it didn't get younger or newer.
that's what it cost me to eat in a month now lol
$580 was equivalent to almost $6000 in 1961
Inflation calculator said that's about $5K in 2024 money.
That’s $6,000 adjusted for inflation.
I paid about $400 for mine in 2017.
They had cake and coffee and sandwiches for dinner. I think that would be possible on the cheap side today as well. And it’s only food and drinks and most likely the location.
In 1960 you could more or less buy a house for 5 to 10k
The titanic was built for 7 million USD (1909-1912). Modern AIDA cruisers are around one billion each. Inflation is wild if you switch from your human perspective on time to a larger scale.
I paid $100 for a retired judge to marry me & my wife in our Studio apartment with my mom & sister and 3 of our friends as witnesses on February 13th, 1999. I paid $100 for 25 dark chocolate covered strawberries (her favorite) as an anniversary gift 3 days ago.
|Quantity|Item|Price \[DM\]| |:-|:-|:-| |80|cups of coffee|40,--| |1|cheese cake|18,--| |1|truffle cream cake|18,--| |1|black forest gateau|18,--| |1/2|butter cake|6,--| ||sand cake (literal translation)|21,--| ||cream|12,--| |3|fruit cake|27,--| |1|plume cake|15,--| ||hot chocolate|6,--| |1|Strammer Max (warm bread with fried eggs, ham and onions)|2,80| |33|packs of cigarettes|33,--| |50|cigars|20,--| |5|bottles Hallerbaum (juniper spirit)|75,--| |1|bottle Kisker (spirit, 1 L)|15,--| |2|bottles liqour|36,--| |1|bottle brandy|18,--| |1|bottle Steinhäger (juniper spirit, 1 L)|20,--| |4|bottles Doornkaat (grain spirit)|68,--| |61|bottles cola and bluna (orange flavoured soft drink)|24,40| |11|bottles apple juice|27,50| |27|bottles malt beer (non-alcoholic beverage)|21,60| ||ice and telephone|3,20| |35+52|litres of beer, with 1,40 DM per L|121,80| |46|dinners, with 5,50 DM per dinner|253,--| ||bread rolls with salmon, cheese, cervelat sausage, ham, meat loaf slices|97,50| |4|shots Hallerbaum (juniper spirit)|2,--| ||fee for one server|40,--| |||1059,80| Handwritten: 1000,- DM recieved \[stamp\] payment recieved 59,80 Signature
In 1989, I paid $500 ($1,243 in 2024 money) for my entire wedding including my dress, the minister's fee, licensing, food, etc. It's about what you do and how you do it, not about the event itself. Weddings are more expensive now because they're much more ostentatious and expectations have really changed. People had much simpler weddings and celebrations in the past.
Mine was $97 in 2021
I paid zero for mine in 2021 by not having one.
I paid $500 for mine in 1988.
My wife and I paid just over $900 in 2023
That's awesome.
Which is c.$5500 once adjusted for inflation...
We paid between 25k and 30k, should have just eloped.
I feel like that's a lot for 1961. That's probably the most I'd spend in 2024. The concept of spending in excess of $1000 on a wedding is frighteningly normalized in the West.
About what we paid for our wedding in 1973 (people brought food, etc.). Still married 50+ years later while so many of our friends who paid lots of $$$s for their weddings are divorced.
They liked it so much they wanted to do it again with someone else!
Why do people out the dollar sign at the end‽ That’s not where it goes!
Because OP is German and that's where we put the €.
Canadians tend to put the dollar sign at the end.
According to my sources, the average exchange rate in 1961 was close to 4DM / 1 USD, making your dollar figure too high. 1,059 DMs in 1961 would have been closer to 264.75 US dollars!
which was like ten grand back then
Just under $7k
Paid $3500 for 50 people.
I paid $250 for my wedding in 2019. We were married by a brewery tour guide, on Valentine's Day, at the brewery, under a pergola covered with fake hops, with a bunch of beer fermenters in the background. We received the ceremony, a corsage and bouquet, a pair of T-shirts, a cake, two beers, and an order of cheese curds for our 250 buckaroos. Best value ever! We had about a dozen friends and family there in attendance. We wouldn't change a single thing. We had our "reception" in Italy a few months later, and had about 30 friends attend. We rented a 26 bedroom palace/villa for the week and covered everyone's lodging, wine tours, truffle hunting, etc. What we spent for the week wouldn't even come close to covering the catering bill for the average American wedding. I think the whole shebang was just over $10k. Our friends still tell us it was one of the best experiences of their lives.
No wonder the boomers think that we're all lazy. None of it scales together like it did back when boomers were buying big things.
And they liked it so much they decided to entirely fuck up any future generation's chance at it!
Yes because it's the little people fucking everything up for the rest of us
You can pay the same adjusted for inflation if you don’t buy into the wedding industry expectations and social pressure.
My parents had a $1000 wedding in 1980. Buffet dinner. No limo, my mom’s brother drove her to the church (and was late). My mom’s dress was $79 in sale.
That’s about $6,000 in today’s dollars.
Just stop eating avocado toast and you can afford it too
I did an inflation calculation online and $580 US in 1961 is $5982.67 US today
I paid $600 in 1997. Parents were not too impressed but it was our wedding not theirs.
That's a lot of booze and cake
This is still only like 5k in todays money
DH and I paid $1500 in 1996… although it was catered by volunteers (my friends) - it was pretty large and fancy
You know that would come out to $5,982.67 in today’s time…
That's not cheap.
After my grandma passed and we were going through her home, we found the receipt from her hospital stay in 1951 when my aunt was born… 94 dollars
So roughly $5,982.67 in today's dollars. Still a hell of lot more than my wife and I spent getting married at the County Clerk's office on our lunch break.
My wedding was 6 or 7k in 2016
Minimum wage was about $1/he
So just under $6k in today’s dollars, adjusting for inflation.
It’s still 5,800$ in today’s money. It’s not bad, but not surprising.
And that is why you don’t hold dollars for a long period of time.
I paid less than that in 2008.
I spent more than that on booze for 30 people at my wedding in 2018
Still too much.
That’s what we paid to elope in 2010.
Back when gas was $0.08 / gal.
We paid $50 for ours in 2015 🤷 happily married with four kids since then. Just family and a few close friends. no debt. Very happy with our decision.
That’s about the right price for a wedding: Adjusted for inflation, $580 in 1961 would be approximately $5,066.06 today. The average hourly wage was about $2.25 an hour and about $5,315 average annual income in 1961.
Roughly equivalent to $6,000 today.
Looks like it was about 4 DEM to the USD in 1961. So that makes it more like $265. That's just the food/drinks/cake though. Doesn't include the venue, officiant, wedding dress, etc.
With inflation, that's almost $6,000 today.
I was married on top of a mountain overlooking two mountain ranges and the entire city I live in. Family was there too. Shit was free. I win.
I went to a German wedding recently and the food/drinks/etc was very similar to this!
Median annual income for men in 1961 was $4,200.
Wow that Abendessen is spendy!
That's expensive considering the weekly wage was 10 bucks
that's a lot of cakes
Lay off the guac toast and work harder and you can do the same
(Assuming that this is from Germany) Your inflation and conversion is off. 1059 Deutschmarks from 1961 is the equivalent of $USD 2,730.88 today. Back in 1961 the exchange rate between Deutschmarks and the USD was just over 4 marks per USD which makes it roughly $USD 264.75 and adjusting for inflation makes it $USD 2,730.88 today.
My whole wedding was under 200$, and was in the last decade but I only had 8 people
Did OP really post this photo and then delete their account?
That's about $6k now accounting for inflation
Affordable houses, affordable education, affordable vehicles, affordable weddings. They really had things easy back then didn't they?
Back then, usually the bride's parents paid for the wedding.
First you'd need to use the exchange rate from 1961, which was 1USD to 4.033 Marks. The wedding actually cost $262. Covered to 2023 $ is $2697. Can't find historical data on purchasing power parity from that long ago though, so I don't know how much cheaper it was to buy things during that time period in Germany. Also, can't read German so I don't know if this includes everything for the wedding. Looking at each line item and multiplying it by 2.5 (divide by 4, multiply by 10) would give you an accurate price to compare to today though.
I’m from Brazil and I’m paying about 60kish (brl)for a 150 guests marriage. It will be on october. And I’m doing a “cheap” marriage. For conversion: about 12k USD; the minimum wage in Brazil is 1412 BRL or ~260USD so it is over 40x minimum wage.
Steinhäger, Kisker, nur das ganz üble Gesöff, so mögen wir es!
WIth inflaction is only 5000$ is good.
Weddings are cheap when you have them in a gymnasium with folding chairs and plastic table cloths. Weddings are a scam now a days. If you really want to spend money in 10 years getting a divorce just go down to th court house and get married for 50$
In the 60s my father got a masters degree from Chicago University. The entire degree, all classes for the two years, cost $2k in total. Even accounting for inflation, that still works out to less than a single semester at Chicago University today.
My wedding in 1987 cost only $500.00.
We paid less in 2020. Courthouse wedding and a pizza dinner 🤘
At that time that was around 6 house payments for the average home
I paid less than that in 2015
Accounting for inflation they paid $6000
Welcome to living in a country that has been in a precipitous decline for a couple decades. But hey - bootstraps and hard work, and stop complaining. Amirite?
Yeah thanks for ruining the economy gramps and Grammy