answer:I was married in a full blown wedding with 200 guests, sit down lunch, band and the works back in 1990. And while it was expensive, it was also a milestone event in my life and the lives of my parents and in laws. So in many ways, I found it to be worth it. The one aspect that was way overblown as to cost versus value? The photographer and the video. We never really looked at the wedding album after the first month we got it back, and we showed the kids the video once or twice, but now don’t know where it is (plus it’s on VHS, not disk.)