Getting out of a wedding - advice for friend

[MarillionFan]

£25k is top end but then again you are trying to impress (well either you or wifey's dad is). I think we spent £2k+ and that's going back 19 years with the reception in a Church hall (well we did have a barn dance and request sensible footwear for the evening).

Well we aimed for £15k for the wedding and £5k max for the honeymoon, but like the last Labour goverment my missus has no idea what a fooking budget is about.

[MyUserName]

We paid about 6k 7 years ago. Including a medieval banquet in the evening which fed just over 200 people.

[EternalOptimist]

we ran away to Gretna green, cost me 15 quid in petrol but I got the best blow job of my life.
if the missus ever finds out, im dead

[vetran]

we ran away to Gretna green, cost me 15 quid in petrol but I got the best blow job of my life.
if the missus ever finds out, im dead

Yeah I heard that catholic priest at Gretna gives good service

[TestMangler]

Well we aimed for £15k for the wedding and £5k max for the honeymoon, but like the last Labour goverment my missus has no idea what a fooking budget is about.

She probably feels she is entitled to spend a bit of cash to mask her grief at being married to you

[d000hg]

Fook me I'm getting jipped. £6000 for the honeymoon and the rest of it is over £25k!!!!

Yeah but we got married in our early twenties almost straight out of university with no money. Proper community "friends all mucking in" affair - very nice in fact.

[cailin maith]

Not sure how much mine was as my parents paid for it Wedding dress and car were presents from relatives.

I never understood the fuss the first time around ( me Ma kicked up more of a stink about a full catholic shindig in Ireland, and all I wanted was a registry office ceremony with a few friends and family) and certainly won't be doing it a second time.

Could someone please tell me why some people will shell out the cost of a house deposit on what essentially is a big one day party?

Likewise, first time around was a massive do at home that I really regret (along with the marriage!!)

This time... much more laid back

[MarillionFan]

Not sure how much mine was as my parents paid for it Wedding dress and car were presents from relatives.

I never understood the fuss the first time around ( me Ma kicked up more of a stink about a full catholic shindig in Ireland, and all I wanted was a registry office ceremony with a few friends and family) and certainly won't be doing it a second time.

Could someone please tell me why some people will shell out the cost of a house deposit on what essentially is a big one day party?

Don't ask me. I've just let her and the MIL get on with it, while I go to the pub with her old man.

[mudskipper]

Ours was relatively cheap by today's standards, but still seemed crazy shelling out so much when we had no money. Fortunately the parents footed most of the bill.