[CIB-173RDABN]

I doubt our wedding cost more than $50 and that includes the license. Good investment, will have been married 50 years in 2020.

I can’t help thinking that the more spent on the wedding the less likely it will succeed.

[dfwgator]

Women want to get married, men want to be married.

[CMSMC]

Same here. The ladies in the church banded together and organized it, decorated, and even did the reception. About all I had to do was get leave approved, get home and be there on time. Don’t remember, probably paid the train fare back to Florida with wedding gift money! Then found out the Air Force had given me a a trip to Vietnam as a wedding gift. Bounced all over the world with her and just celebrated 53 last week.

[Bigg Red]

I can’t help thinking that the more spent on the wedding the less likely it will succeed.

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Yes, especially since harpies like this spend countless hours planning the one-day party while giving no attention whatsoever to planning the marriage.

[Truthoverpower]

Congrats! My folks are at 55 years. Wife’s at 52 years I do think a ceremony in front of loved ones where vows are exchanged is good For me. Second time was charm I’ve learned She’s always right It’s all about her 😊

[Bonemaker]

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.

[CrazyIvan]

“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.

[MplsSteve]

“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.

[ExpatCanuck]

Have to agree. Wedding expenses are the stupidest way to start a life together. I’ve been married 30 years and I think our wedding cost less than $1000 dollars. These imbeciles who spend 10s of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands on a wedding are the ones that are most likely to be divorced a few years later. It’s because they’re stupid and self centered and eventually can’t get along with a spouse who disagrees with them on any issue. If you’ve got the money to burn, go for it, but if you have to beg for it, it’s a bad start.