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Razors Edge

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...on their own or their kid's weddings?

We may have spent that if you include the honeymoon, but definitely not remotely close to that for the wedding.  I find $10k nuts, but have known the plenty who have spent multiple times that with $50k no longer being "outlandish".  Beyond a WTF, I still can only say, "It's your money..."

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No I dont think so.  Ours for sure not.  D2s in a couple weeks may be around that but only if you count travel.  One set of grandparents are not well enough to fly so the wedding is going to be out east, so we need to fly the whole crew out and get a couple places to stay.  That is the biggest chunk of moola

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Just now, Razors Edge said:

...on their own or their kid's weddings?

We may have spent that if you include the honeymoon, but definitely not remotely close to that for the wedding.  I find $10k nuts, but have known the plenty who have spent multiple times that with $50k no longer being "outlandish".  Beyond a WTF, I still can only say, "It's your money..."

Yeah we covered most of the cost (my SIL also picked up a good sized chunk).  We actually gave them $10K for the wedding and put another  $3K or so in incidental costs associated to the wedding.  Like flying my MIL out and putting her up in a hotel twice...  Rehearsal dinner, new dress, tux for me & son.  The costs add up quickly...

If you recall they also had an “India” wedding which his parents (well dad) required and so they paid for.  He probably put down $4-5 K on that wedding neither which neither my daughter or SIL wanted...

 

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Oh and my wife & I took a road trip to Vegas and got married by Elvis!  We didn’t have rings not enough cash to stay over so we drove out, got married and drove back.

Highlight of the day (other than getting married) was putting our last $20 in slots. I asked my wife if she wanted to eat or gamble. Gamble, we can eat when we get home. We split the $20 and started plunking quarters in the machine.

 I was getting tired of the machine eating my coins so put the last $.75 in there, pulled the handle and won $50!!!! Alright now we can eat!!!  So we had a nice dinner and drove home.

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Fortunately no.  When my oldest son was married in Malaysia hie wife's parents picked up the whole tab.  That was good because it cost us about $6000 to go there with a free place to stay.  

When I mentioned to osomaxx that Crazy Rich Asians was an interesting movie, his comment was ......yes, I lived it.

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We paid for our own wedding, 36 years ago it was about $3K.  Big party, we both have large families.

When my son got married, they paid for some, her dad paid some.  We offered up $10K to pay the rest.  Ended up paying only for the honeymoon to Europe, under $4K, kept telling them to splurge but they tried to keep it as cheap as they could.  My oldest daughter (if she ever deems a man worthy) already has her wedding planned on the cheap.  The youngest might decide to tell us some day that oh by the way we eloped.

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2 hours ago, 12string said:

We offered up $10K to pay the rest.  Ended up paying only for the honeymoon to Europe, under $4K, kept telling them to splurge but they tried to keep it as cheap as they could

Did you then cut them a check for $6,000?

It sucks when responsible or frugal folks gets screwed!

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Just now, Further said:

They've been together 6 or 7 years, seem to be happy.

Funny story, in a warped sort of way

This guy, Jason, has a lot of money, they will fly to Vegas for the weekend if the spirit moves him.

So they're in Vegas & some kind of porn convention is going on, they are wandering around taking in the sights. Lots of 'take a photo with a star' opportunities.

So Jason has a pic of his wife with Ron Jeremy...

 

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Close to 10K, if not over, on my own wedding.  Lots of relatives and we paid the out of towners hotels. 

We will probably spend about that on my oldest daughters.  Again, to help out of town guests.   A friend of the same daughter is currently spending about 120K.  The sad part is her parents are remortgaging to do it.  That is insane. 

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