No one asked you to organize a banquet amounting to 1200-1400 a table.
You invite people to your banquet with the aim they celebrate your wedding celebration with you not so they can pay for your wedding.

This post has been edited by Zoopdiidoo: Oct 26 2016, 02:47 PM

If she says that. then you really are not prepared to be married to her and her only.
Most gals like my wife will tell her parents, pls do not complicate things. Planning a wedding is already hard enough.
Dowry, I gave my wife's side 10 tables. I discussed this with my wife and she took that and convinced her parents to take it, not the other way round like what your gf...is doing to you.

Standard wedding criteria is there but there is an option for moderation or luxury. Most hotels will already have decorations already for the wedding.
Churches in Malaysia are not those grand churches such as those in USA. Decoration for a church is wasteful as no matter how much you decorate it will still look old.
Buffet, bridal houses and photographers also has moderately priced or luxuriously priced ones. Take the former.

Your GF is a Staunch Christian you say. She should be the epitome of moderation instead of spending incessantly for things which means nothing ...she should be acting what she preach in church.

We only hear one side of the story but ffrom your story ...shows many signs you and your future wife doesn't seem compatible as life partners. You know those wedding vows you take during the church wedding? show it to your gf...and tell her...even before the wedding and as life partners she cannot even commit to any of those vows. Don't spew those vows, if she doesnt really mean it and ruin the sanctity of Marriage.

This post has been edited by Zoopdiidoo: Oct 26 2016, 03:10 PM