"WEDDING" HOW NOT TO SPEND HUGELY:

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in a marriage or a similar institution.=en.wikipedia.org. Wedding varies as there are diffierent types based on customs and traditions. It varies greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, as well as social classes.
wordnetweb.princedon.edu defined wedding as thesocial event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.
Having undertand what wedding is, the question that remains to be awnsered is " The cost of hosting a Wedding Reception". Wedding is just only a wedding which supposed to mark the beginning of a new era in our lives or relationships and not be a gigantic or hill mountain for us to clinb.

YOU MUST NOT SPEND HEAVILY JUST TO HOST A WEDDING PARTY
It is unbelieveable how much people spends on weddings. You can  enjoy a beautiful and reasonable years of married life surrounded by loved ones and friends if you wish not making your wedding a huge and financial drainning one.I feels worry for anyone who makes their wedding such a huge event, because it seems so out of normal position=voluntarily put a lot of stress and baseless expectations on the marriage partnership itself.

 Be kind to yourselves, don`t spend a huge amount of money on a wedding just to prove that you have money.  Do what actually makes sense. Spending huge amount of money to wedding doesn`t increase happiness. The attitude of you and your partner towards your marriage does. Being able to articulate the true purpose -love-of marriage and abiding in it would guarantee you happiness.
NO TO A WEDDING DAY BOUGHT
Instead of spending more than required on A DAY ACTIVITY, you can invest on a home, plan a wonderful vacation with your partner-spouse, or save it for some financial stability or by doing something creative with it.
Don`t make your wedding day a BOUGHT DAY which only last just only that very day, rather buying yourselves a new START which last forever. The time for such excess and waste should be behind you. Borrow a clue from the economic problems  world over right now and mark the beginning of a new page of your life.