This Bride Canceled Her Wedding After Guests Refused to Give Thousands of Dollars to Help Fund It

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...

I saw some research which showed a negative correlation between the cost of the wedding and the longevity of the marriage.

Makes sense. Somebody with visions of a fantasy princess wedding will not be satisfied for long with a mere mortal for a husband.

I'll substantiate your data a little more. I remembered seeing her as a cute little girl on the playground in elementary school in the early 1960's. I was a class ahead of her. I moved away with my family and finally returned about eight years later.

I was fortunate enough to have been invited on a blind date with her. The "blind date" was to see a play at Berry College on May 3rd and we married June 28th. Long engagements are for wimps. The guy that fixed us up had shown me her photograph and suggested that I might remember her from elementary school, so it was not totally a blind date.

When I got back to my parents house after our date I told my dad that night, I was going to marry her. It was not like we were total strangers, because we lived in a very small rural community.

Our wedding was at her sister's house with only my parents and her parents invited. Her sister was her matron-of-honor and her sister's husband was my best man. We have been together 44 years and I suspect this may last a while longer.

As far as I am concerned we did it the right way. Our honeymoon was one night at the Holiday Inn and back to work the next day. My daughter, although they picked a more pricey and scenic venue, also only invited immediately families for her wedding.

My dream wedding would be on the beach at Gulf Shores, Orange Beach or Dauphin Island with just Family and friends. Tasteful but inexpensive.

Of course, with my luck, a hurricane would probably hit on the wedding day.

And if one wanted music for their wedding, I bet this gentleman would play for a reasonable fee.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HMbEuue1N8g

The only challenge would be keeping a straight face (which I couldn’t).

When are normal people going to realize they are POOR, maybe working poor, but normal everyday people do not have $15,000.00 weddings and definitely NOT $60,000.00 weddings. There are so many other ways to have a nice inexpensive wedding without spending huge amounts of money. People just need to be creative and expectations need to be realistic rather then multi-millionaire-delusional.

Read my post again and saw I didn’t put NOT before $60,000.

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