No. Private wedding costs are separate from the published government processing charge and gift. Keep the two ledgers on different calendars as well as different pages. A wedding is paid on the couple's own schedule to private suppliers, while the published charges fall due at points the process determines and are paid where the official instructions direct. Neither substitutes for the other at any stage.
Keep relationship planning and government payments distinct
An intended eligible spouse included under the family terms adds US$15,000 and US$1 million. The payment itself does not establish the marriage, and money spent on an event is not an instructed gift to the United States. Budget for the sequence rather than for a single moment.
The processing charge is described as nonrefundable, which makes it a cost incurred whatever the outcome, and it falls due ahead of the determination that would justify it. Decide in advance what the household is prepared to have spent if the answer is unfavourable. Where a company sponsors the principal, the recurring annual charge and the charge on transfer belong in its budget every year rather than only in the year of application, and someone should own that line.
Amounts and terms are published and may be revised, so confirm each from the official source when it becomes payable rather than from an earlier summary.