Hubby To Be Told Her To Ram It, She Wants $100,000.00 !

[billt]

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Poor baby ! And guess who came a sniffin' Gloria Allred! Big shocker.     Bill T.

[TAB]

Why on earth would you spend all that money on a wedding?


Our wedding only cost about $5k.  It was on the beach at tahoe,  I heard zero complaints.  Infact just about every body there said it was the perfect place to hold it.  Even my MIL that wanted to do one of those 6 figure weddings.  She was actually the most impressed.

Its the people there, not the other stuff.   

It would be much better to give then a large chunk of cash for a down payment on a house then to spend it on a wedding.

[PegLeg45]

Why on earth would you spend all that money on a wedding?


Our wedding only cost about $5k.  It was on the beach at tahoe,  I heard zero complaints.  Infact just about every body there said it was the perfect place to hold it.  Even my MIL that wanted to do one of those 6 figure weddings.  She was actually the most impressed.

Its the people there, not the other stuff.  

It would be much better to give then a large chunk of cash for a down payment on a house then to spend it on a wedding.

+1

Preacher married the wife and me at a quiet little church ceremony where we are members (no fee because we were members...but I made a nice donation to one of the church funds) with a small group of family and friends. We didn't have a reception that day (due to logistics concerning the date) and went out of town on honeymoon for a few days at the beach. Two weeks later we invited all of both families, along with close friends (many who couldn't be at the wedding), to a big cookout.  

Grand total of less than $2000........cost of living here is much lower than Tab's area.
A grand worth of the right type of food will feed a lot of folks in south Georgia.  

[sledgemeister]

sounds to me hes getting off light not marrying that beast of of lawyerville.
Chalk it up to life experience, what sort of idiot dates a lawyer anyway. If you do you should be sterilised not to breed any more like them.

[Timothy]

My wedding was inexpensive as well.  It was what the lady wanted, not me.  I would have been fine with a civil ceremony or nothing at all.  I'd still be here regardless, 28 years later.

Weddings are for wedding planners like funerals are for funeral parlors.  I'm not spending another dime on either one!

Sorry M58, nothing personal...

 

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[billt]

$11,000 for flowers and spot lighting??

How would you have any idea if you got $11 grand worth? I'd go with a bushel basket of Dandelions and a few flashlights.

http://www.harborfreight.com/3-1-2-half-inch-nine-led-flashlights-2-pack-97036.html

"Spot Lighting" is covered! This broad doesn't know the value of a dollar. No wonder he hoofed it!   Bill T.

[fightingquaker13]

First I want to agree with TAB and Peg. Simple is good when it comes to a wedding. The nicest I've been to was held at a park with my junior priest, with a reception at a BBQ joint. It was simple, sweet and cheap and everyone had a good time with no money wasted on formal wear or bridesmade dresses or flowers or the rest of thast crap. Just good friends, a nice young priest our own age with a pregnant wife who really got the spirit of the thing in his remarks, and a fun shindig with beer, BBQ and a local band who's $500 fee was the biggest expense beyond food and beer for fifty (since we were a group, it was family style all you can eat for $14 a head and BYOB so that, and a couple of kegs of Shiner covered it.God Bless Texas and long live the Salt Lick BBQ ). That beat the hell out of a Society wedding that was actually covered by the press in Tuscaloosa Al. (note to father's of daughters: advise her its a real bad  idea to show the groom how much you love him against the back wall of the starter's hut of the country club when the local papparazzi are there unless his groomsmen stumble by to run interference) . Seriously, why do people spend god knows how much on a dress they'll wear once, flowers that die, food for 600 people, most of whom you won't see again until the next wedding or funeral, and somehow think its worth it?

Where I disagree with the board  is that I am with siding with the bride here. While $11000 on flowers makes no sense even after my second glass of wine, she shouldn't be out of pocket. The guy is a louse. Better to break up before rather than after the marriage, but still..... If you leave a girl at the alter, you don't leave her to pick up the tab. At a bare minimum he should pay half, and 2/3rds would be closer to fair since he ended it.
FQ13

[sledgemeister]

First I want to agree with TAB and Peg. Simple is good when it comes to a wedding. The nicest I've been to was held at a park with my junior priest, with a reception at a BBQ joint. It was simple, sweet and cheap and everyone had a good time with no money wasted on formal wear or bridesmade dresses or flowers or the rest of thast crap. Just good friends, a nice young priest our own age with a pregnant wife who really got the spirit of the thing in his remarks, and a fun shindig with beer, BBQ and a local band who's $500 fee was the biggest expense beyond food and beer for fifty (since we were a group, it was family style all you can eat for $14 and BYOB so a couple of kegs of Shiner God Bless Texas and long live the Salt Lick BBQ ). That beat the hell out of a Society wedding that was actually covered by the press in Tuscaloosa Al. (note to father's of daughters: advise her its a real bad  idea to show the groom how much you love him against the back wall of the starter's hut of the country club when the local papparazzi are there unless his groomsmen stumble by to run interference) . Seriously, why do people spend god knows how much on a dress they'll wear once, flowers that die, food for 600 people, most of whom you won't see again until the next wedding or funeral, and somehow think its worth it?

Where I disagree with the board  is that I am with siding with the bride here. While $11000 on flowers makes no sense even after my second glass of wine, she shouldn't be out of pocket. The guy is a louse. Better to break up before rather than after the marriage, but still..... If you leave a girl at the alter, you don't leave her to pick up the tab. At a bare minimum he should pay half, and 2/3rds would be closer to fair since he ended it.
FQ13

But why was it ended? did she sleep with the stipper at her hens night, has she been having it off with the football team on the side? There are many reasons to end a relationship, perhaps it was her that was the spanner in the works.

[rat31465]

$25.00 26 years ago...got married at a Justice of the Peace.   Reception was in a gazebo behind the inlaws home in Georgia.....Everyone, including MIL and my family said it wouldn't last.  Grand total spent was less than $100.00.
And no we didn't get Married because we had to...but we were damn impatient at this point in the relationship.

So do I get the Penny Pincher/Tightwad award or what?

[billt]

So do I get the Penny Pincher/Tightwad award or what?

Possibly. Melanie and I got married in Las Vegas. "Little Church Of The West" I believe it was called. It was walking distance from the Tropicana, December 26, 1983. Total cost was right around $150.00. A hundred for the ceremony, which included an audio tape. (Video was an extra $100.00.....too much.) And $50.00 for pictures. The photographer did a really nice job. The church looked like a real wooden western church which is why we picked it, (with the advice of a young girl cab driver who drove us from the airport to our hotel, (Stardust). No pink neon, Cupid's hearts, velvet furniture or cheap perfume smell like all the rest. I forgot what the license cost at the Clark, County court house, but we had to wait in line for it. Even with 2 women taking the applications. They got a good racket going there. We even got a coupon good for a free bottle of Champagne, redeemable at the Tropicana. Not a bad deal all the way around.

http://www.littlechurchlv.com/


Yep, just checked, this is the place. Still there.   Bill T.