I don’t know about other places. Anyway, I lost money when I got married.
I got married in 2015, and I was also in a five-star hotel. One table was in the 3000 bar, excluding tobacco and alcohol. There were 35 tables, and the hotel’s large screen was 6000. The wedding company said it was because of the high standard. Went there, and the cigarettes and alcohol were not bad either. The cigarettes and alcohol cost 60,000 yuan. The wedding company hired someone from our front line, and it cost 100,000 yuan. It was made of forest-style flowers, and they were all real flowers. I was very satisfied with the wedding effect, because there was a wedding opposite, and the hall and banquet were not as big as mine. In addition, I bought the wedding dress myself. I booked the presidential suite that night because my friends were having fun and didn’t want to bring it home. It would have cost nearly 300,000 to get married. Fortunately, the wedding cars were all driven directly by friends. The wedding car didn't cost anything.
PS: I am in a small city in Jiangsu, with average economic development. Except for my husband's friend who played well and offered 10,000 each, my colleagues all offered 200, and someone even offered 200 for his wife and children. The hotel stipulates that only 10 people can be seated at a table, so this is equivalent to a loss of 700, not including tobacco and alcohol. All our colleagues here have a salary of 200.
The hotel stipulates that the bill must be settled before eating. Later, my husband and I calculated it. Fortunately, he took it, otherwise he would have lost even more. By the way, not counting the trip to the hotel together at noon, it’s not bad. I think marriage is once in a lifetime, as long as you are satisfied with it, it doesn't matter if you lose a little.