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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First wedding was my wife and I at a fire hall... we paid for everything ourselves, with the exception of my parents buying the booze as a wedding gift, I think we spent around $3k including her dress for the whole thing.
My second her parent’s paid (her first) , and it was very nice, but I will be honest, and it wasn’t over the top, but honestly all I thought was how much of it was really needed? A lot of money burned that day, and honestly, most of it was for her parents ( or more honestly, her mother’s sake) than anything else.
To me, all that mattered was the people who mattered were around us. I would have been quite fine, with far less. I don’t know what they spent, but I am sure it was far far more than I would have been willing to spend.
Honestly, I have 2 daughters, and I hope I am in a position to have 10 or 20k when they get married, but I’ll be honest, Daddy is far more likely to put it toward your mortgage than spend it on a 1 day party. I love them both more than life itself... but I hope I raise them well enough to know, the marriage is what matters.. not the wedding.
My mother-in-law went all out for that wedding because my wife was her only daughter. Years later, I came to realize that the big wedding was just as much for her as it was for her daughter. She basically wanted to show off for her friends and family. My wife and I often joke that we didn’t know half the people at that reception and never saw them again.
sometimes you cannot reign them in. 30 years later at my daughters wedding? MIL pissed and moaned on how she “finally got to see someone in a white dress” and EVERY GIRL wants a wedding. Just shut up already!!!
we got the wedding we wanted.
The cheaper the wedding the longer the marriage lasts....keep that in mind before you fork over the cash...
We had a very inexpensive wedding—local small restaurant and we took it over for the afternoon—just very close friends and family—hired a local musician (great singer—had a friend help us find her). We split the cost (her father had passed away..my nasty mother was not invited).
Twenty years married and counting...
Bridezillas are the worst.
My wife's dress was more than half the cost of our wedding. Our reception was held behind the chapel (provided for free) that consisted of a pot of coffee, a gallon of orange juice, and a coffee cake on a folding table. We ate the cake while we waited for the fog to clear, then took off in a hot air balloon.
Total cost of our wedding was about $600.00.
One of my friends went to Vegas. Best wedding I ever attended. About four days before the couple sent out emails with a hyperlink and the day and time they were getting married. I pulled out my laptop, went to the website, put the TV on mute sat on my sofa in jeans and watched them get married.
My parents got married on a bridge in either a car or horses\wagon in 1926, My dad died in 1984 and my mom died in 2007. He was born in 1901 and my mom in 1904. Miss them.
“I pulled out my laptop, went to the website, put the TV on mute sat on my sofa in jeans and watched them get married.”
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Amazing.isn’t it? I watched my granddaughter’s entire out-of state college graduation from my La-Z-Boy recliner.
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If this is a true story, no matter what the father of her child has to pay in Child Support, he DODGED A BULLET. Can you imagine his nightmare had the wedding taken place?? And if true, I really hope he can get custody of the child, especially as it’s a male child. Sheesh.
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I’d rather not attend another funeral for a while. I’m kind of a big guy so always get recruited as a pal bearer. Also always get asked to speak, which I’m honored to do but sucks. Also lost too many friends lately. So yeah, I’ll take an ostentatious wedding over a funeral any day. /Sorry to be so maudlin, but it’s my reality
Yes, it’s crazy that you can participate and not travel.
“No one can possibly be so stupid.“
Mrs. L did weddings for 15 years. They can be this stupid.
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I'm assuming you're happily married and relieved not to have had the pressure of paying for a gala affair you couldn't afford. My experience from weddings I've attended is that guests actually enjoy and respect the event more if the couple showed ingenuity and prepared a wonderful, inexpensive celebration.
You keep them alive in your fond memories. <^..^>
“The purpose of a wedding is to fulfill the romantic expectations of two people: the bride and the bride’s mother.”
- Marcia Seligson, The Eternal Bliss Machine, 1973
Hey, whatever happened to the Bridezilla reality shows of a few years ago?
I can see that being the case. Anecdotal example here, but I spent a total of $88 (eighty eight dollars) on my wedding. This consisted of $28 for the marriage license and $60 as a gratuity to the mayor of our town (a mayor who worked a regular job in addition to being mayor of a small township) who performed the ceremony at the township hall. My wife and I have been married for 18 years (together for 20).
Conversely; I know of people who were still paying off their overpriced wedding receptions when they divorced.
Some put more resources and effort into the wedding than they do into the actual marriage.
I was Wedding Coordinator at a 5-star resort in Hawaii for a few years. They came from all over the world, mostly with too much money and too little smarts. Talk about ridiculous, extravagant weddings! That usually was if the parents were involved.
Many times, though, the parents had been driving the couple crazy at home, trying to highjack the whole event to create a circus. The couple “ran away” to Hawaii, usually bringing two other couples, and got married in a small garden.
Weddings make people insane sometimes.
The guy is extremely fortunate.
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