Eloping is a lot cheaper.
If that seems antisocial, get hold of an old Emily Post manual from about the 1930s. Great instructions for having a lovely but inexpensive wedding at home.
Drives me nuts that people spend enough on weddings in recent decades to have put a sound down-payment on a very nice house - and in a few years, the couple is divorced anyway.
Go Figure.
Well, I refused to ask my parents for the thousands of dollars! LOL!
As father of the groom, I get off rather cheaply. I'm paying for the rehearsal dinner and contributing to the honeymoon. But it will be a $40,000 wedding when all is said and done. Crazy.
Totally agree!
Makes me irritated by a episode of one of my favorite shows, Friends.
Monica wants a huge expensive wedding and Chandler gives his savings to her for that.
I find that selfish.