A suggestion for KT

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

A suggestion for KT

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Do it, mate!!

Erm, 41k sounds a little high, yes.

-- Edited by NateO at 22:24, 2005-05-19

Aodan · Teiam Member

quote:
Originally posted by: ddvmor
"Get everyone else to pay!
http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=42091
Is it just me, or is $40k for an average wedding just... stupid money? Why?"

If I ever got a wedding invitation that asked me to pay for part of it - I'd throw it out, send my regrets, a nice card, and erase them from my phone book. It's just plain tacky.

My cousin's parents spent 30k on her wedding. The marriage last a little over a year.

I think the grand total of mine - honeymoon not counting - was around 12k - which included the dress, the venue, the music, the flowers, the shoes, the wedding party gifts, the invites, etc, etc etc.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Even $12k sound a lot to me. I mean, all you're doing is a quick ceremony, and then feeding a bunch of people. If you're paying that much for it, you've invited too many people.

It would have been my 7th anniversary this year - our wedding cost the princely sum of £4k (so, about $7k?). We had all the trappings, but we were fairly sensible about the number of guests - and we didn;t feel the need to pay hotel prices for the reception, so we did it in the resaurant area of the local pub. It was cool.

In retrospect, I can safely say that it was a great investment () and worth every penny (). Don't think I'd want to do it again. Heh.

Ho hum.

Batman O'Leary · A.K.A. Damo_Daly I have a cool name...

Well how bad is THIS one?...

My (rather rich) uncle invited everyone to his daughters wedding in a posh marina, but, as my granda had not long died, he only invited my granny on her own. When she asked if she could bring one of my aunts (his own sister none-the-less, and I should say at this point that all brothers/sisters/cousins etc were only invited to the evening part) he said she could come but my granny was to pay for her!!!

Ar*ehole!

Incidently, just been my 11th anniversary last week, my do only cost roughly 3 to 4k!

Lite · **I'm lite... and I'm fantastic!**

my brother got married last year in glasgow.. dunno how much it was...
He asked everyone to give money as a gift too.. hehe..
Seams the sensible option to me... I mean.. who wants 3 toasters?

Aodan · Teiam Member

quote:
Originally posted by: ddvmor
"Even $12k sound a lot to me. I mean, all you're doing is a quick ceremony, and then feeding a bunch of people. If you're paying that much for it, you've invited too many people. "

Trust me, it was a lot for us too - considering I didn't even particularly want to do the whole wedding deal. (I would have been just as happy with a Justice of the Peace and a $50 marriage license). But the family (read: my mother, my grandmother and surprisingly my husband) wanted a wedding and by god they were going to have one! All 150 of them. Have I mentioned we both have enormous families?

Where I live though, I practically had a paupers wedding. We penny pinched wherever we could and it still came to 12k.

PS: My ceremony was as short as possible for a Catholic church wedding but was still probably longer than it needed to be - my cousin's took forever. She's Catholic, he is Jewish - instead of having a nice short civil ceremony they did a FULL Catholic Mass, and a FULL Jewish ceremony.

We were in that chapel for 6 years.

BrianS · Still Number One

Mine was a Catholic wedding, (Wife's family is Catholic, although neither of us are religious). We were to have the full Catholic mass as well but one of my groomsmen had other plans. About 15 minutes into the ceremony he fainted and fell straight-legged backwards off the step he was on and hit head first on the marble floor. He ended up getting hauled off in an ambulance in the middle of the ceremony. Needless to say the mass was cut short. He was in the hosiptal for a week with a fractured skull. Poor chap. We think he fainted because he had a hang over from the night before.

Short Santa · **For entertainment purposes only!**

I liked my wedding - formal-ish (i.e. church, but ceremony was mostly in swedish, so not really clear what I signed up for) then quite informal - main (i.e. groom, best man, father of the bride)speeches before meal, then during the meal anyone who fancied speaking did (Swedish trad apparently) No morning suits or anything, and I managed to go for a swim in the lake at 4am.

Ohh forgot point of post - prob cost £10k, of which we paid 1/3rd and respective parents prob paid a third of each too.

-- Edited by Short Santa at 17:02, 2005-05-20

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Sadly, I paid for all of ours.

I was still paying for it 5 years later!

Registry office and fish 'n chips next time, I think!

Aodan · Teiam Member

We paid a good chunk of ours - my mom gave what she could - and my dad was going through a real tough financial time and gave what he could, but we fronted a good portion of it.

Its been almost 2 years - and we're still paying for it. We had to take out a personal loan to cover part of the cost and for the honeymoon. Glad we had a good time..

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 23, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: ddvmor
"
Don't think I'd want to do it again.

Registry office and fish 'n chips next time, I think!"

make up your mind kingy

so far i've saved a coupla hundred quid buying my dresses in the usa, my granny is making the cake and my dad's friend is letting us use his wedding cars at a reduced rate

wait, this might be one of those 'just because you got a reduction doesnt mean it was cheap' moments

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

quote:
Originally posted by: bonniepirateanne
" ...so far i've saved a coupla hundred quid buying my dresses in the usa..."

Dresses?

How many do you need?

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

All this is making me vote more and more for a drive thru wedding in Vegas.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Do you want fries with that? Would you like to super-size?

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 23, 2005

two bridesmaids silly

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

No, no fries.

But a chef salad would be loverly.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

I'll take some fries, with gravy!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Mmmmmmmm... Gravy...

-- Edited by ddvmor at 18:58, 2005-05-23

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 23, 2005

turkey?

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

No thanks, just the fries and gravy, please.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

Fries and gravy are even better with melted mozzarella cheese on top.

#15 with gravy on the side from the late night snack menu at my old diner. Then changed to a #16.

I think I dinered too much in my youth

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I'm drowning in my own drool.

Stop it!

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

quote:
Originally posted by: Andromeda
"Fries and gravy are even better with melted mozzarella cheese on top."

Sounds like a poor-man's Poutine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine

"The most popular tale is the one of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented in 1957, when a client ordered fries and cheese curds in a bag. Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine ("it will make a hell of a mess"), hence the name."

-- Edited by NateO at 18:17, 2005-05-24

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

And apparently the real name for it is Disco Fries

Ya learn sumthin' new every day!

"Disco fries are available almost exclusively at diners in the northeast United States, most notably New Jersey."

Makes sense. I got them exclusively at diners in New York

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Disco!!

Mmmm, Poutine...