<3 QOTD 5/1/13! <3

happy first day of may everyone!!!

today's question is a sort of follow up from yesterdays (or just related)..

Q: How many of you are paying for your wedding completely on your own? which set of parents are helping, if any? did you ask for any help or was it simply just offered?

my answer will be kind of long:
this subject has come up a bunch of times in our relationship.. before we got engaged, I was fully prepared to pay for our wedding completely on our own. much to my (pleasant) surprise, my parents stepped in and theyre paying for our venue! huge help, but obviously we still have all of these huge other wedding expenses.
a little bit after my parents offer, FH and i were talking about whether or not his parents were going to offer us any help, which i kept telling him we DONT need (although we both agree it would be nice). well our engagement party came and went and we received nothing but $100 from them (which i was excited about!) but FH cant give up on the idea that he wants his parents to help out too. so a couple months ago i read in a bridal magazine that its common and acceptable for the groom to ask his parents for help. i read this to him, and he was like ok im gonna ask then! but i keep telling him we dont NEED it.
he has two older brothers who are married and i have no idea if his parents helped them at all, and neither does he, knowing this information would help.. but his parents are also in a different and better financial place now.. so who knows?!
so thats my story! lol. we are technically paying for just over half the wedding as of now, which is still a 'low budget' wedding for a long island wedding. where do all of you stand?