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re: The older I get, the sillier weddings seem

Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:15 am to
Posted by 21savage
LP
Member since Apr 2018
301 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:15 am to
At the ripe age in my 30s where there is a wedding once a month

You can just look at some couples and see they are rushing the process

Keeping up with the jones' type thing where the best friend had a nice wedding now its your chance to one up her with yours!
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
32559 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:21 am to
My wedding was family and I think we spent $2,000 total and that included a nice dinner at a restaurant

This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 8:22 am
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22773 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:23 am to
I just don't get it at all. I have never enjoyed weddings. I am currently engaged and told my SO that we are going to elope.
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
24585 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:24 am to
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Same thing happened to me, a younger coworker got married, and he was losing his mind around all the details and bullshite expenditures that his wife thought were necessary.

Not married yet and she already got his balls. Sad to see what “men” have become
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 8:26 am
Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
14464 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:29 am to
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So many marriages end in divorce that it's hard to take weddings serious.
The whole thing seems like such nonsense.
Hard not to laugh when brides come strolling down the aisle wearing white.
We're supposed to suspend reality and pretend she hasn't banged 50 dudes already.


While that's not always true, many times it is. Best thing to do is move on and



Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
35658 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 8:33 am to
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I have never enjoyed weddings.


Sorry you don’t have friends
Posted by Tantal
Member since Sep 2012
18841 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:11 am to
I thought weddings were silly DURING my wedding.
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
26990 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:13 am to
I can't get passed people of medium income spending 35-50K on a freaking wedding.

You could do a small wedding and put a down payment on a home.


Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27078 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:14 am to
People now a days spend more time planning the wedding than the marriage.
Posted by slidingstop
Member since Jan 2025
1602 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:17 am to
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it's hard to take weddings serious.



hard to take people seriously who can't use correct grammar, too.

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Hard not to laugh when brides come strolling down the aisle wearing white.
We're supposed to suspend reality and pretend she hasn't banged 50 dudes already.


yeah, I heard your mother, wife, and daughter were huge whores before they go married.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
12728 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:40 am to
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I dropped 75k on my oldest daughter’s wedding


JFC, it's not avocado toast that prevents them from buying houses, it's shite like that! I spent $30k and we were both ~10 years into our adult careers.

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Never again.

How are you actually ensuring this, though? How did the conversation go? Or are you just going to start the car in your garage the next time wedding planning starts?
Posted by moon
USA
Member since Dec 2010
2596 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:44 am to
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Oh look another incel propaganda bot trying to drive down domestic birth rates to justify importing more third worlders.

Get bent


Do you have stock in aluminum by chance?
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
10135 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:46 am to
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I dropped 75k on my oldest daughter’s wedding last May and it broke me.


Would you say that's the dumbest thing you ever did, or have you done worse?

Because that was pretty dumb.
Posted by bdavids09
Member since Jun 2017
1308 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:47 am to
It’s all nothing but a business to make women feel they have to spend thousands on a party
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
10135 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:50 am to
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People now a days spend more time planning the wedding than the marriage.


And that's exactly the problem.

We live in a post-obligation society. People do not relate to a marriage in terms of their duty to it, they only relate to it in terms of what they get from it, and $75k weddings only reinforce that idea.

When the $75k party is over and the dust settles, far too often it's just the lighting of the fuse in which one or both spouses start making lists of what's no longer blowing up their skirt about the other partner until the whole thing collapses.

Women in particular have got to be reigned in on the wedding thing because you are exactly right. They can't think about a marriage and what that means for obsessing over the wedding.
Posted by 756
Member since Sep 2004
15714 posts
Posted on 11/11/25 at 10:40 am to
Gave my daughter a budget and she stayed within it.
Son got married and his brides family paid 0..I Gave them a budget and they spent under budget.

Best investment was my grandchildren.
Tip...tell them here is budget and you don't pay for divorces.

Marriage is work ii is not playing house
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