Hah - if my and John's parents weren't paying for our wedding, we'd be shit out of luck. Because we are poor, but still want to have a medium-sized wedding (John's mother called the guest list "small" at 100-150... their huge Catholic family looooves weddings lemme tell you). And the location fee alone is $3800. For the location.

Just - yeah. You are definitely on the low side of cost.