All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Get married in the woods by a tree, in the name of the Old Gods and the New.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
In my case not really. We had a lovely personal ceremony and spend several weeks visiting my husbands family on the coast in a villa in Sardinia Italy afterwards. After all shouldn't a wedding be what the couple wants and not trying to spend a lot to impress friends or family?
Probably goes without saying, but the cost of a wedding is less important than how much that represents in terms of income. A $500,000/yr power couple having a $50,000 wedding is a whole lot different than two minimum wage workers spending that on a wedding.
Same goes for the ring. Price is all relative -- and the question become how much of your disposable income/future do you want to put towards one day of festivities?
Plus we haven't talked about honeymoons or other costs that are tangentially related.
I generally encourage people to look at what they're potentially giving up if they spend the money on a wedding. Down payments on a house is a pretty big one. There's also family planning often involved that a big expenditure like a wedding could create problems.
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One thing my friends did which I really liked was instead of asking for money or anything like that they had their honeymoon broken down on a website and you could buy them pieces of their honeymoon. Like cover the cost of a hotel night stay, or buy them a tour or a meal at a restaurant. I thought that was a great way of making something typically impersonal into something more personal, plus I got a glimpse into their honeymoon plans and that was cool.
Some people use the cost of the ring as how strong your feelings are for that person. It's usually not the bride either but her circle of friends.
I had my wife build her own engagement ring -- she settled on a white gold band and an alexandrite center stone. The whole thing came to about $1500 and she absolutely adores it because it matches her personality. One of her friends (believing I picked out the ring) said it looked "cheap" and that I didn't care enough to get her a "real ring".
....my wife no longer associates with that person.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
I do wonder how much people actually follow through with that though. I mean, I've done my share of groaning when I find out a wedding is a cash bar or just beer/wine or whatever. But that isn't how I decide if I'm going to attend.
But you can still have an open bar at a wedding celebration and not have the price tag at 27,000.
It's hard to say no to the woman cause a wedding is such a big deal for them and it only happens once. So you got to spend $5 grand on a ring, give money to the preacher, rent the hall, buy the kegs of beer, buy a cake, etc. The groom is just there for decoration.
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All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side