Who Pays For What?

Does the bride's family foot the entire
bill? Can you ask the groom's family to
pay for part? How do you divide the
guest list? Etiquette experts have all
the answers.

BY MAIDA PORTNOY

I s $500,000 too much to spend
on your daughter's wedding
reception?
Greek shipping tycoon
Stavros Niarchos didn't think so when
his 20-year old daughter, Maria,
married Alix Chevassis, 36-year old
heir to a French chemical fortune on
June 16, 1979. Guests celebrated
under four football field-sized tents,
12,000 bottles of champagne and red
wine were consumed, and the supply
of caviar exceeded the demand.
According to the 1988 Guinness
Book of World Records, this soiree set
the global record for the most

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