re: David's Bridal files for bankruptcy

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People are getting married in regular dresses and passing on the huge price tags lol

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yep, lower cost is where it's at. Wife and I took a King Air 350 to the islands instead of the Challenger 300. Got to save up

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Weddings are just crazy expensive.

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I know people with a regular middle class job who saved for years and spent 80-100k on their daughter's wedding. You can go to Harvard for two years for that much. It's ridiculous. Wedding and funeral industries need a beat down.

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second-hand wedding dress

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I could have sold you the one my wife wore if I had known you were ok with a marrying someone in sex stained outfit.

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Isn't David's Bridal where you go to get a dress without an insane price tag?

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Yeah, I’m sure they have some nicer dresses but David’s Bridal is like the Jared of wedding dress stores. Massive national chain with mostly affordable dresses. Their intended customer is not the old money New Orleans girl or something.

But I do think most in here are right. The wealthy will continue to have big weddings, as they should because they can afford them. It should have never been “normal” for lower income people to be having huge expensive weddings. It’s crazy to think of some of the weddings I went to as a kid, now that I’m older and know their families were never wealthy.

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People are getting married in regular dresses and passing on the huge price tags

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Exactly. David's Bridal and stores like it are the biggest scam since the pharmaceutical industry

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I know people with a regular middle class job who saved for years and spent 80-100k on their daughter's wedding. You can go to Harvard for two years for that much. It's ridiculous. Wedding and funeral industries need a beat down.

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I went to two such weddings this year, and FWIW you could go to Harvard for 4 years and grad school for that amount of money, 70% of Harvard students pay less than $12K per year.