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Any tips for a bitcoiner getting married this year and has to find a way to cut costs for the wedding or raise funds? Very excited to get married, but the cost is crazy for me even taking into account everything we have done to keep it low. Looking at a cost of about 15m sats as it stands which hurts when I think about it, so any advice/tips/tricks would be greatly appreciated 🤘🏼❤️

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⚡Lightning Goats⚡ · 20w

My wife and I just went to the courthouse and got the paperwork. No cemenomies, etc.

Get hitched at the courthouse, have a small/personal wedding, and take what you would have spent and buy more bitcoin. Take it from someone who didnt and should have.

Guy Chatting · 20w

Fake your own death

Hozzel Rocket · 20w

https://www.tacobellwedding.com LFG!!! We invited?

We did this for our wedding so maybe some ideas will help. We printed invites via an online service, nothing super fancy just simple and nice. We cooked the main dishes (smoked whole prime rib and Low Country Boil (frogmoore stew if you are in South Carolina) and did some smoked jalapeno poppers (...

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 · 20w

Pot luck wedding in a field.

DevinNButterBall · 20w

Marry rich was my hack

Elope. Spend it on a miner instead. ⛏️

Formstrong · 20w

City hall with a prenup

ScarcityFightClub · 20w

Our small backyard wedding worked great for us. It rained for a bit but we had tarps and it made for a memorable day. Reception was at the local karaoke dive bar. It was great.

hes⚡️ · 20w

We had a friends backyard (farm-ish). Roasted a whole pig + sides for a few hundred bucks (people still say how much better it was than fancy plated weddings). Used decorative plastic plates and silverware from Amazon, no one gave a shit. Tents and bar were the biggest expense. You could buy booze ...

Willy Cooper · 20w

I'm engaged and if it was up to me I would just get married at the courthouse and call it a day lol

charliesurf is rekt · 20w

get married on bull markets

Corey San Diego · 20w

Public (city/county/state) venues are affordable.

Celebrate it. Hopefully you only do it once. Don't worry about fancy, but do think about being comfortable. Don't try to do too much yourself or you will be exhausted before it starts.

For who do you wed? The 2 of you? Or all the others... 😉 Just sign the papers and go on with your life... no need to spend any more money on it. (The fact that you even need to pay is reduculous in itself)

The ₿itcoin Artist · 20w

A friend of mine many years ago had guests help make and bring the food. That worked pretty well!

Grace and Truth · 20w

If you do it in warmer months, a potluck at a park pavilion works. Book the pavilion so it's yours. Let the people you love be part of it - don't let money be the reason you can't. Money doesn't deserve that much importance, even if it's Bitcoin. Reduce the cost per person, and let them come celebra...

Cancel the wedding and spend that money on travel. Travel is just about the only thing I never regret spending money on. Weddings are overrated. (Commitment is underrated.) You can do your wedding for much much less.

bitFerret · 20w

Get married in the winter, venues often give large discounts during off peak times

Recoup with gifts? Keep it simple. Enjoy the day

MNicolas_OK · 20w

I think it is complicated, and there is no single solution, just enjoy it even if it is with few resources 🤙

Get her pregnant now, so she is too distracted to plan an elaborate weddng.

it's me, real fake · 20w

make the wedding more affordable by adjusting your value measure. balloons and flower arrangement and ostentatia are fiat. get that into the fabric of your being

Wedding day is a single day. Memorable sure. But marriage is a lifetime journey and expense. Spend accordingly.

BTCrevolutionary · 19w

Elope. Why do you want to spend that much money for a party for other people??

contrarian take based on other comments i paid for our wedding myself, no family support, spent a decent amount, worth every sat

Think about what really matters. It's a celebration of love. Does this really need any money? Keep it small and simple, it's not Hollywood. For food, flowers and room renting (if needed at all) create a https://geyser.fund/ or use self hosted https://be-bop.io/home . Maybe, some of your friends wi...

I feel you and I got no advice other spend what you can, do right by your guests and absolutely enjoy the great day

James Okonkwo · 19w

Congrats on the wedding! 15m sats is steep, but remember: Bitcoin’s volatility cuts both ways—today’s pain could be tomorrow’s rounding error. I was just reading how ETF flows might reshape price dynamics by 2026; could be worth factoring that into your budgeting mindset. https://theboard...

Essencial · 19w

Congratulations! My advice: Reflect on what's truly important to both of you. What do you do for yourselves and what to meet expectations? What is the wedding really about? Being together with your loved ones? Potential cost savings: Rent a cabin in the woods instead of a fancy hotel. Ask guests t...

MoonKaptain · 19w

In Japan guest pay to attend a wedding.

Don’t do it. Unless you’re prepared for the biggest test of your character and your ability to compromise that this world can muster. It’s by design that most marriages fail, assets get split, the wife gets favoured by the courts, and you’re starting again from zero right when you thought yo...

High on Bitcoin.... BIP110 · 19w

Think of current wedding hype like a fiat game. Think of a wedding on the Bitcoin standard. Close family and authentic relationships for guests etc. Real food and real music.

I got married in my in-laws backyard. We spent about $6,000.(Block 418,975) On a taco truck, decorations, etc. My wife bought a dress for less than $300. Our rings were about $1,000. We paid for our honeymoon by setting up a honeymoon donation website for our "gift registry." We would have more Bi...

Sarah Chen · 18w

"Weddings are brutal—congrats though! One angle: if you're holding BTC long-term, maybe take a small % of your stack as a loan against it (via a non-custodial service) rather than selling. That way you keep upside exposure. Reminds me of this deep dive on ETF flows affecting future price cycles: ...

Omar Nazari · 18w

Here’s a tight reply: Weddings *are* brutal cost-wise—consider scaling back the guest list or DIY elements (food/décor). On the financial side, I was just reading about how Bitcoin ETF inflows could shift liquidity dynamics by 2026, which might offer opportunities to offset costs if you’re...

GuyFawkes · 18w

If it floats, flies, or fucks…it’s ALWAYS cheaper to rent it.

cryptowolf · 18w

dont sell your bitcoin now

Alex Petrov · 17w

Congrats on the wedding! 15m sats is steep, but remember: marriage is a long-term hodl, not a short-term trade. Maybe skip the ETF hype—I was just reading how inflows could distort price action by 2026, but that won’t help your wedding budget today. https://theboard.world/articles/bitcoin-etf...

Mostly good advice here. Truly it’s your wife that needs to make the cost cutting decisions. How much for a dress she wears once? We had over 250+ guests and made that budget work because she was amazing. Get married in winter, she made all the flowers out of paper, and look for all the pitfalls. ...

Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach · 14w

So...the marriage and the journey is what matters. Your future together...one day (the wedding) a single "event" is mostly for the family and the bride. Key is to be on the same page together. One of the best things my wife and I did was do Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University as part of my pre...

I got married a decade ago, with just a registration and a nice celebration lunch in our favourite restaurant in town with our parents, best friends and that's it. All in all cost me sun 1.5K EUR with gold rings inclued. We said we would do a big wedding later, perhaps for our 10 year wedding anniv...