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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The Wedding Industry is the biggest racket going.
What's my point? People don't need expensive weddings if they can't comfortably afford them. JMHO
The perfect wedding for me is to elope to Las Vegas and get married by an Elvis impersonator. I tried talking my wife into that when we married some 30 years ago but she insisted on the full wedding extravaganza. Big weddings are ingrained in the women culture. They are raised from childhood to expect a "fairy-tale" experience with all the trimmings.
So I basically told her to knock herself out. Just tell me what to wear and what time to show up. She and her mother spent months and months with such inanities as interviewing photographers, florists, and DJ's. They must have went to a hundred reception halls. They never could understand why I didn't want to be a part of it. To her, it was the thrill of a lifetime. I was just glad to get through the day itself!
$30,000 they spent on that wedding. And that was over 30 years ago. But that's what she wanted and as I've learned in life, if the wife isn't happy, than nobody's happy.
Wow, that totally makes sense.
Yeah. I forgot to mention that in the comment section. I added it to the keywords.
When my wife and I got married, my first, her second, we saved $4K for the event. Rented a BandB, furnished a catered affair for 60 people and had a piano player, who was excellent, and a minister. We specifically told the invited guests: no gifts, just come to celebrate. That was 20 years ago.
When my wife’s daughter got married to some scum bag she knew, my wife spent about 25K for a country club wedding. The marriage lasted about a year. That was ten years ago. She is back for a second bite of the apple now and we told her, yard wedding and we will pay for food and drink, PERIOD. We estimate about 1K total. We had to ask our minister if he would do the service since neither can even spell the word church.
I hate weddings and as someone said in a prior post, I’d rather attend a funeral.
Gofundme and Youtube begging...yuck
i hope this is bs, cause otherwise, what a spoiled, awful beeyotch. If true- good on the fiancee for getting the hell out- and i hope he gets the kiddo, too.
Let’s review.
This couple merged and had a baby.
The pair needed money and determined a wedding would be a good promotional sales event. We can surmise that they reserved a church for the occasion and she planned to wear a white gown.
Some selfish, stupid and sinful stuff going on.
Then God took charge-—— “Not in My house of worship!!”
ugh! the worst. Pay for your own stuff!!! or do with out.
hate weddings and funeral also. My wife Filipino with 200 ‘cousins’ LOL. No way to avoid it.
Nice weddings are fine - the girl and mom get to work on it together, they have a great time and the Mom can afford it. If the Mom can’t afford the nice wedding then kill the idea off in ten seconds and go to plan B.
LOL! It is easy to see you have been successfully married for 30 years. Having been successfully married for 25 myself... I, um, understand.
my mother in law wanted a big wedding. Football stadium sized wedding. She made me insane and i told my love- “she backs off or this is a deal breaker for me”.
we eloped 2 weeks later at the courthouse (Friday) and moved away Monday AM. Best.decision.ever!
Never went back “home” to live, only visits.
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“ ‘All we asked was for a little help from our friends and family to make it happen,’ she wrote...”
Each guest was asked to donate a minimum of $1500.
What if every wedding wanted that amount?
5 weddings over a year would be quite a sum of money.
You think you had it tough? A friend of mine from the top caste in India had 14,000 guests at his wedding reception. They had to hold it in one of the largest convention centers in India. LOL.
I agree. The way it’s written makes it seem made-up to me.
(But I don’t doubt that there are young people today who are equally ‘entitled’ and stupid.)
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 $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.
Then went to Martha's Vineyard for the honeymoon after cashing back a cruise to Bermuda.
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