Posted on 08/27/2018 9:35:40 AM PDT by EveningStar
Okay everyone, buckle up, because this might be the most insane wedding story you'll hear this year. On Saturday, one Twitter user, @0lspicykeychain, tweeted screenshots of a status she saw shared in a wedding shaming group on Facebook. (To clarify, a wedding shaming Facebook group is exactly what it sounds like—a place on the internet where people go to shame weddings.) What follows is a truly incredible tale filled with broken promises, outrageous expectations, and a bride who thought asking each of her guests to contribute $1,500 to her wedding was a reasonable request: ...
In the status, the anonymous woman shares that she and her partner broke up due to "recent and irreparable problems." She then goes onto explain how the two met at age 14, fell in love, got engaged at 18 (with a $5,000 ring), and had a child together in their early 20s. They then saved up about $15,000 for their dream wedding but quickly discovered that their actual dream wedding would cost about $60,000. "All we asked was for a little help from our friends and family to make it happen," she wrote...
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Nope, real.
This is the norm of modern female thinking in developed countries.
I’ve seen some entitled brats in my day, but never one who would expect and basically demand each of the attendees PAY $1,500 to come to their wedding.
Nowadays weddings are funerals, for the man.
He just doesnt know hes dead yet.
I feel very sorry for both of you. who wants to live like that for the rest of their lives? Jeebus.
They’d be getting my card back with sorry, can’t attend, marked.
The one wearing Black on the Left looks like she is closing in on an Orgasm.
Nest is child support payments!!!
Years ago I knew a couple who decided on a ‘ destination ‘ wedding. I do not recall the island but there was only one airline that flew there and a round trip ticket was close to $4,000.00.
So many people returned the invitation with ‘ sorry, unable to attend ‘ that they had a second string of invitees. Still not enough replied ‘ yes ‘.
I was on the list of third string invitees. No way in hell was I going. And by this time everyone knew what was going on and most second and third stringers were really offended.
How it all turned out I have no idea. I really don’t give a damn either.
I learned an ex-girlfriend of mine got married on Christmas Day. Who does that??? The holiest day of the year and you expect people to give up family plans to go to a wedding?
I was shocked. It’s really quite selfish.
I always think back to adversity and hardships our Grandparents and Great Grandparents lived through.
I recall a skit from the old Amos and andy show wherein the Kingfish told Andy when he was taking a bride: congratulations Andy, you have just joined the ranks of the living dead. In those days I howled, today not so much.
Variation on that: Father of the bride decided how much he was willing to spend on a wedding, and gave daughter a check. Told her she could spend the money on the wedding, on the honeymoon, or on a down payment on a house. Suddenly, when it was HER PERSONAL money that would now be spent, she became very frugal in her wedding plans.....8-)
It’s amazing to me that people spend enough on weddings to put a nice payment down on a house ;-)
We eloped. We didn’t have much money, most of our friends and family were scattered far across the country; and we didn’t want to deal with the fuss.
We bought nice clothes and rings, went to the court house, and later family and friends gave us a nice luncheon. We have lots of good memories, as I’m sure you do - none of stress or unpleasantness. What we did is certainly not right for everyone - weddings are often very important to families. But it was right for us.
It was a tongue-in-check comment, but I do appreciate the sympathy.
I new SAM wouldn’t let this one go by...
Oh. I seriously doubt this is the first time this princess has been at center stage. Puhleeeze.
Ding Ding Ding, see post 81.
Do not get me wrong, my in laws are wonderful people.... And the wedding they threw for us was very nice... but it was clearly as much, if not more, for the M-I-L sake...
Of course, this was clear to me even before it happened, but it was my second marriage and I 38 at the time, had it been my first marriage at 24 that was like that, I would have more likely been oblivious to it.
Part of the entitlement generation.
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