re: How much was your wedding?

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The divorce rate is lower than 50%...

And even lower in educated couples.

$50, we celebrate our 25th this year so pretty good ROI.

Wife's dress, band, decorations, catering, and a deck I built on a bank overlooking creek that we were married on: $3,500.

We had it on her dad's property. We sewed together coffee sacks for the runner and I made benches out of logs/old 2x12s. Very rustic kind of thing, under 100 people.

too fricking much. nyc wedding, expensive as balls.

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the last 3 are 2 VPs and a guy who owns his own fitness studio with his wife.

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I'm just telling you what the statistics say. Do educated people get divorced? Yes. Do they get divorced at a lower rate than uneducated people? Yes.

>2k.

friend photog, fake flowers, clearance dress. baptist, so no booze.

my in laws were pretty happy.

I went to one of my friend's wedding last year, a girl that my wife and I had known for a few years. She moves away, finds a guy, and about a year later we get the invite, neither of us knew the groom. Well we go to the wedding, it was a very nice, not overblown wedding, and then we head next door to the reception. To start things off, they gather all the guests and do a toast to the bride and groom. Well, the father of the groom toasts first, takes about 3 minutes, covers what you'd expect, and passes the mic to the bride's mom, and that's when shite gets weird.

She's roasted already, and she starts immediately talking about how she is so happy that her daughter met someone, just how she has met someone, after her divorce. In drunk fashion, she repeats how happy she is about her new husband, not about her daughter's husband. Nothing too bad though, just kind of, "I've found someone, you haven't" towards the father of the bride. Well then he takes the mic away from her. The first thing he does is has a moment of silence for their marriage, like you'd do for fallen soldiers, or grandma. At that point I'm dying trying not to laugh. Well this "moment of silence" starts to drag on, and on, and fricking on. So I take a deep breath, get it together, and decide to look around the room, because at this point it's fricking weird, I thought he may have died with the microphone in hand, and we would have looked foolish all standing there for nothing.... so I look up, and the groom is just staring at me. No expression, like he can't figure out what the frick is going on, or maybe can't figure out who I am, I don't know. So I do the only thing I could, I give him MY best 1,000 yard stare, and for what I swear on my life is another 1:30 we just stare at each other without blinking or looking away, like an Old West duel was about to go down and gunshots were fixing to fly. But as strangely as it started, everything was normal after that. Never did talk to the groom, but I did shake the brides father's hand that night and told him his speech was well played.

This just delayed my proposal.. These figures are depressing.

post college adults taking parental handouts of 30k and up from their parents. Get off the tit already and pay for it yourself.