Posted on 03/29/2017 6:38:26 AM PDT by C19fan
“That doesn’t include the prostitute that interrupted our wedding night.”
Now that is some serious Quid Pro GO
There’s probably going to be problems in that marriage! Seems from what you said the priorities are not “family”
Mainly an east coast band. They often play in southern VA but nowhere close to KY. Maybe someday. :)
Once in front of the JP in his house with two witnesses.
Once at my club, with 50 attendees, a cake, a pianist and a flautist and champagne brunch, less than 1K rings and all.
I remember all the wartime marriages and all the regular middle class marriages of the past:
A good suit, a hat and gloves and a corsage, a negative Wasserman, two rings and a license. Held at the local church, the courthouse, at the JP’s or in a friend’s living room.
“A young man once asked his girlfriend to marry him. She said no and he lived happily ever after.”
I was 23 so technically not that young.
She recently got back with the guy she dated before me.
He’s in Hell. He must have dementia to forget that.
Don’t forget the never ending gift giving:
Engagement party
Bridal Shower
Wedding
This happened to someone I know. An old friend wanted her to be a bridesmaid and she refused, with good reasons. They actually made up later but the bride never really understood and things were never the same between them.
In Sept my husband and I will celebrate our 9th, we were both widowers. His second wedding was a lavish affair as she was the Preacher’s daughter and it was expected.
A preacher married me and late husband in his study, didn’t think the marriage would last LOL it was 23 yrs and till death parted us, I had a simple plain borrowed day dress, he a dress shirt, pants and tie. Cost of license and paying the preacher $25 bucks as it was not a church wedding.
When these two old geezers married in a simple real church wedding, from Dress, cake, food, license, paying the preacher, music from a boom box, no walk down the isle was needed, a friend took photos better than a professional, we pulled it off for around $500. Being 60 the dress was the hardest to find and cost the most, I refused to be married in a hussy’s dress, which is what the brides of today wear. Even Mom of Bride dresses where atrocious.
The prostitute was using our room just before we got there. They gave us another room.
The Wedding Industry is the biggest racket going.
There is actually some correlation between a lavish wedding and a higher divorce rate.
Our church does the same after the Saturday Service. One of our sons got married in our church after the Saturday Service. He and his bride had managementjobs and could get a lot of time off and used money that would have been spent on the wedding to make a down payment on a house.
They had a couple of close friends, immediate family and no other guests. We treated all 15 to a dinner at our favorite restaurant in a private dining room after the marriage. We and their friends paid for a weeks stay in a nice coastal lodge about 2 hours away.
The priest required 3 pre marriage discussions. 18+ years later they are still married and traded their first home up for a larger and nicer home.
Their close friends had similar small weddings and are also still married.
Every BrideZella Marriage of their other friends lasted about 2-3 years or less.
Not my mother. Hubby and I both planned ours. Entire thing from gown to cake to cuff links to the local b&b with 75 guests was $500 and it’s lasted all these mumble, mumble decades.
My friend’s, two weeks later, was $2000 for the gown alone. Way too much hoopla and boring. Well, it may have been not so boring if the wedding party didn’t have to do all the chores like speed across town to get the ugly cake, speed across the other direction (twice) for the grooms’ attire, wash the reception dishes while getting hollered at by the bride that nothing better be broken, wait around for hours for the happy couple’s pictures, the bridezilla intentionally ordered my maid of honor dress in the wrong size and color, blah, blah, blah. Oh, and please, don’t give the bridesmaids $3 ink pens as their gifts. I had given her a nice pearl bracelet which she claimed she immediately lost so I forked over another. Surprise, we’re no longer friends.
When people start learning to just say no, these ridiculous destination events will end.
Or maybe have another reception back home, after the small beach wedding, for local friends/family. I went to one of these and it was nice.
You want to watch out with that one. There was a couple in NY state in just your position, who declined to rent out their barn for a same-sex marriage. Lawsuit and potential financial ruin ensued.
Exactly. They are guests, not paying customers.
If only we'd had a real depression, these frivolous gotta have industries would disappear and maybe stayed gone long after a recovery. Far too much of the American economy is based on fluff and nonsense.
We wanted to elope but bride’s Mom said no way, “I’ve been to so many weddings and this is my chance to host one”. We stayed out of the planning other than the dress and the vows. We got to pick some of the bridesmaid/groomsmen others came with the wedding (mom’s choice) and the bride’s bouquet. That was in 1976.
The real funny part is we were so peripheral to the occasion they forgot us at the church in the Bronx and we had to get to the reception in NJ perched in the back of the photographer’s car with his equipment & empty soda bottles. We called ahead because we were sure they would be worried. They hadn’t missed us.
Exactly. They are guests, not paying customers.
But this is what happens in an everyone-gets-a-trophy society.
Believe me, we’ve discussed this. We found a great way around it from someone else that does this. When someone contacts them, they require facebook communication, preceeded by friending them. They can then ask very simple questions that never even discuss their sexual preference, but the facebook page exposes everything.
They then schedule accordingly. This is an oversimplified explanation, but you get the gist.
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