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| quote: | Originally posted by malek
small mindness , i take my own wedding as an example, my parents didn't pay a penny, we paid for it the wife and myself. Nothing crazy fancy...
but, 20g is nothing when you have 175 invited, you know, family and friends, numbers add up quickly.
If you're cheap with your guests, they'll be cheap in return, that wasn't our case and most of the expenses were paid by gifts ($) people brought us. If you think about it, people brought 100$ on average, thats 17,500$ right there.
Party was great, everyone was invited and enjoying themselves, and the best was that at the end of the day, it didn't cost us that much |
Maybe you can justify dropping 20 g's for a one day event... I can't. 20 grand doesn't come around easily, and it can be put toward things that are going to last a lifetime. Not to mention, my wedding isn't going to be an excuse for people to eat and drink for free, it is going to be what it should be - a celebration with my closest friends and family.
The expectation that someone "should" have an expensive wedding irks me. Not everyone has tonnes of cash to throw around, and not everyone would like to spend that much money on a one day even when the money could be better spent elsewhere.
I would still like to know whether or not the BF was formally invited, or if his invitation was assumed. That really changes the whole situation one way or the other.
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