re: OT Dads of Marrying-Aged Daughters - How much do you have stocked away for the big day?

There was a great thread almost a decade back called Annie Banks = Spoiled Bitch on the M/TV Board. It’s about The Father of the Bride and how Steve Martin was somehow insane and a dope on not wanting to spend $143,000 on a wedding back in 1991.

That whole movie paints him as delusional idiot when he’s really the only sane person. Really, she comes back from studying abroad for 3 months and is already engaged at fricking 21 and expects her dad to buy a small Island Country for her? Ummmm, no first off you’re waiting at least until 25 to get married, and 150 thousand dollars for a wedding? Are you out of your god damn mind.

I’ve updated the math from that thread, and that wedding today would cost $268,306.64. Annie Banks is a stupid spoiled whore, and Steve Martin shouldn’t have let the insane women and gay men in his life to bully him. I mean shite, she doesn’t say goodbye to him after investing in a marriage that he knows is sure to fail. She merely gives him a call when the groom likely told her she was being a callous count to her father. I’m sure some variation of this conversation happened in the limo.

“Listen, I still love you baby and I don’t regret marrying you, but what the frick is that shite? You don’t say goodbye to your parents or remotely acknowledge them when we’re leaving? They just dropped 300K on our god damn wedding, and it’s too much to give them a thank you on our big day? Not only that, but they’re going to think I’m an a-hole as well for this in dragging their 21 year old daughter into marriage. So you get your fricking arse on that pay phone, and you thank them for the fricking wedding and say you were just overwhelmed not saying goodbye to them, because this is something your parents are going to take extremely personally against both of us. Now you go do that, or I’ll throw you onto the jetway. Any questions?”

My daughter will be married at the court house

My wife and I are going to give our daughters a budget of $10-12k max.

I’m no OT baller and I dropped about 8k 10 years ago on my daughters wedding... they’re divorced now

Granddaughter’s wedding is in the fall, probably close to $15,000. And she is getting the most bang for the buck. Anyone planning a wedding needs to do the homework and ask all the right questions. It’s the nit picky add-ons that run the bill up.

My in laws spent close to 70k. Totally stupid. I really wanted that towards a house.

My sister spent around 250k. Her husbands side put up the money as they are beyond wealthy and had senators at that party.

My other sister put around 40k in hers.

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The average wedding cost $44,000 in 2018

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Sounds like propaganda/inflated math by an institution with a vested interest in making people think spending $44k on a wedding is the norm. Simple math/economics should tell you that people aren't spending an average of $44k on their weddings. Sure there are a lot of people that are spending that and more, but there are countless people that are doing simple church/home wedding/reception, going to the courthouse for a few bucks, etc. I wonder if this "study" even accounts for those at all?