6k is ok or not, also depends on another factor. Who is going to pay for the wedding dinner?

Normally there are 2 ways:
1:Pay high ping kam, but the bride side dinner paid by the bride family.
2:Pay ping kam as hou yu tou only, the groom side will pay for all dinner.

You have to know that the ang pau from bride's friends and relatives will all go into bride family pocket.

So for case 1, the ang pau and high ping kam will cover the dinner and other expenses.
For case 2, the ang pau will cover other expenses only.
And also, for case 2, it depends on how many tables are requested. Say if ask for 15~20 tables, can easily cost around 10k~15k on the groom side.

If the groom side pau the dinner, the ping kum can be any amout already loh...

Some people i know, if the groom pau the dinner, the ping kum only like 999 kind of amount...

Some other people who are not in KL. sometimes the ping kum only 5k and the groom doesn't pau the dinner you know... Cause the 5k is mainly use to prepare the wedding, the dinner can be easily covered by the ang pau received.

Just some opinion....
A lot of people are different. I have known a lot of married couples, which the guy pay for ALL THE EXPENSES. Which means, the bridal photo, honey moon, and some even have to pay for the wedding dinner if their family can't support them. And actually, some of them also pay for the housing and car loan alone.

If you got no housing or car loan, saving up 6K is easy. However, if you got some other stuff, then 6K is a lot. If the guy has to support his family (maybe parent too old to work already), then most likely he can't even save any money at all.

On top of that, 6K is NOT ENOUGH for a wedding. Wedding photo easily cost around 3K~6K, honey moon can cost around 2K~20K depending on location, and PING KAM? How about "Ga lui beng", the other MISC ang pau (would cost around 1K), money for "guo dai li" stuff (pig? XO?). How about new furniture? New car? New house? Renovation fees?

After all, it would depends on how demanding is the bride.


In KL, an average wedding would easily cost the groom 20K...