Posted on 08/28/2018 6:26:47 AM PDT by C19fan
A disgruntled bride-to-be has revealed she was forced to cancel her extravagant 'fairytale' wedding after her guests refused to pay $CAD 1,500 each to attend.
The Canadian bride, who is known only as 'Susan', was due to tie the knot with her childhood sweetheart in a lavish $CAD 60,000 ($46,020) wedding.
But the couple decided to call off the ceremony just four days before exchanging their vows after they struggled to foot the bill.
Taking to Facebook to explain their decision, the furious mother-of-one blamed her family and friends for the breakdown of her relationship as she vented her frustration in a lengthy post.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yep, he backed out of the wedding and avoiding the inevitable divorce from the psycho-wench...
Can you imagine all the other “fairy tale” stuff this bridezilla would want in the course of the marriage? Because she’s oh-so-special? Talk about dodging a major bullet by this guy.
>>I think the story is fiction.<<
I think so too.
It smells too “good” and hits all the emotional response buttons.
My wife and I were once invited to a wedding featuring a cruise. We were to pay for our own tickets. We sent a modest gift instead.
Don’t really see that as a “discrepancy” as the writer clearly was talking about South America. Lots of Canadians have been to the US and she clearly meant she’d never been further south than the US and doesn’t speak Spanish.
I’m sure she looks like Raquel Welch too.
You beat me to it.
I had noticed about the discrepancy in the bride (supposedly) being Canadian and yet her cousin stating that the bride had never been out of the US.
That one detail proves that the story is an obvious fake.
“Lucky man!”
Wonder if Canada will impoverish him with child support like they do here.
What about the kid? It says she has one child. Was the fiance the father? Is he now out of the picture? How can she backpack through the world?
Kids are not furniture or jewelry.
IF I was a friend of that ‘father’ of that child, I would tell him to get a lawyer & get full & complete CUSTODY of that child before that ‘bridezilla’ has another meltdown & harms the kid.
She certainly is NOT fit to raise a goldfish.
Me, my sister and parents, bride, her parents, brides maid, best man, minister and dinner at the Ox Yoke in the Iowa Amana Colonies. Probably well under $200 in 1961. Still going strong 57 years later.
How? Lots of Canadians have been the US. And the cousin is talking, in context, about how the bride said she was going backpacking in South America for two months. I think it’s simply a way of saying she’s never been further south than the US, doesn’t speak Spanish or Portuguese and knows nothing about South America.
“I can’t help thinking that the more spent on the wedding the less likely it will succeed.”
I believe that there was a link to an article statistically proving that here a few weeks ago.
“I doubt our wedding cost more than $50...”
Pretty close here too. The wife and got married in July of 2017. The cost was for the marriage certificate and a side-payment to the county judge who performed the ceremony on a Lake Superior beach. It was a tip of sorts if you will.
It was our first marriage for both of us and being that we were in our early 50’s, we obviously didn’t feel the need for as big ceremony. I guess it might have been different if e were both in our mid 20’s.
“’Am I some h**ch piece of f***ing trash, a hooker? Am I supposed to like the idea of getting married in the heart of shady gamblers, alcoholics, and the get rich fast fallacy?”
Yes and yes.
“...dinner at the Ox Yoke...”
Been there several times. A darned good place to eat too.
We had about 30 guests at our wedding and it cost us a total of $100 ($25 each to the Pastor, Organist, Janitor, and the church fund). I don't count the white Pendleton wool jacket and skirt my wife wore since she used it many times after we married.
Our reception was at my house, my parents paid for the food, my oldest brother paid for the booze, and my best friend's sister made the wedding cake. All those items were our wedding gifts from those people.
The folks who are still around still comment on how wonderful the whole thing was.
By the way, our wedding was almost 37 years ago and we are still together.
"...Susan then explained how her relationship ended abruptly because her guests failed to fork out the $CAD 1,500 ($1,150) they had requested.
'I specifically, I mean specifically asked for cash gifts. How could we have our wedding that we dreamed of without proper funding?' she said.
'We'd sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1,500. We talked to a few people who even promised us more to make our dream come true.
Our request for $1,500 was not f***ing out of the ordinary... If you couldn't contribute you weren't invited. 'My maid of honor pledged $5,000 along with her planning services. We tearfully thanked and accepted. My ex's family offered to contribute $3,000.
'So our request for $1,500 for all other guests was not f***ing out of the ordinary. Like, we made it clear. If you couldn't contribute, you weren't invited to our exclusive wedding. It's a once and a lifetime party [sic].'..."
Wow. I can almost hear her Hillary-like screech:
"I specifically, I mean specifically asked for cash gifts. How could we have our wedding that we dreamed of without proper funding?"
This is what every guy needs in his life, a totally self centered money sponge.
Hopefully he ran as far away as possible as fast as he could.
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