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Post by Orange Daddy on Sept 2, 2014 21:10:59 GMT -5
That's right Gramps I'm really getting out pretty good I do expect to pay more.. Wedding these days are crazy high. They are going to the yes to the dress place in Atlanta. I told her try for 3k for the dress.. I told them look on craigslist there are tons of wedding dresses on there for the taking... When my son got married her Dad's bill was 60K and my rehearsal bill was 6K and guess what. They were married for 1 1/2 years and divorce..
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Post by gramps on Sept 2, 2014 21:44:18 GMT -5
They were married for 1 1/2 years and divorce.. Geez Louise.
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Post by 404whore on Sept 3, 2014 12:32:25 GMT -5
(These are general comments not directed at anyone in this thread)
Wedding spending is depressing. It is maybe the most pathetic example of "Keeping up with the Joneses" in our society. Social media has only exacerbated this.
I've never been a fan of telling another man how to spend his money. Frankly if you got the money knock yourself out.
I'm less saddened when I see a guy with $5 million in the bank drop $75k on his daughter's dream wedding than I am the guy with $250k in the bank dropping $25k on a lesser affair. Or worse the guy is really broke and he's spending $10 or 15k he doesn't have.
Wanting to please your children is commendable and the spending is an act of love but how much of it is because of peer pressure...both for the couple and the parents?
Oh yeah and half of these end up falling apart.
And yeah...$30k doesn't even pay for the dinner and bar bill at many modest weddings...
Then there's the cost of attending. I think many out of town guests would love to find a gracious way out of most of these things (I'm not talking close friends or family, but the other ones). And just like not all babies are beautiful, not all weddings are splendid entertaining gourmet affairs. Truth be told many of them, even expensive ones, suck.
I mean how many times are you still hungry after dinner & you wish you could sneak away for half an hour and roll thru a drive thru somewhere.
And for the luv of god if I got a hotel for the weekend and flew in the least you can do is have an open bar!
At least it's football season and I won't have to worry about this for a few months.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Sept 3, 2014 12:44:30 GMT -5
Agree with 404Slut.
Children's birthday parties, though obviously in a different galaxy in scale, are the antecedent.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Sept 3, 2014 13:04:18 GMT -5
I'm all for them. They're good for stimulating the economy.
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Post by Orange Daddy on Sept 3, 2014 15:51:21 GMT -5
I agree it is a true waste of money you can have a nice wedding in a church for $1,000 end of story.... yes its keeping up with the Jones....
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Post by gramps on Sept 3, 2014 20:25:56 GMT -5
(These are general comments not directed at anyone in this thread) Wedding spending is depressing. It is maybe the most pathetic example of "Keeping up with the Joneses" in our society. Social media has only exacerbated this. I've never been a fan of telling another man how to spend his money. Frankly if you got the money knock yourself out. I'm less saddened when I see a guy with $5 million in the bank drop $75k on his daughter's dream wedding than I am the guy with $250k in the bank dropping $25k on a lesser affair. Or worse the guy is really broke and he's spending $10 or 15k he doesn't have. Wanting to please your children is commendable and the spending is an act of love but how much of it is because of peer pressure...both for the couple and the parents? Oh yeah and half of these end up falling apart. And yeah...$30k doesn't even pay for the dinner and bar bill at many modest weddings... Then there's the cost of attending. I think many out of town guests would love to find a gracious way out of most of these things (I'm not talking close friends or family, but the other ones). And just like not all babies are beautiful, not all weddings are splendid entertaining gourmet affairs. Truth be told many of them, even expensive ones, suck. I mean how many times are you still hungry after dinner & you wish you could sneak away for half an hour and roll thru a drive thru somewhere. And for the luv of god if I got a hotel for the weekend and flew in the least you can do is have an open bar! At least it's football season and I won't have to worry about this for a few months. Don't disagree with you at all, 404. I've always found it a bit of a waste, too. But that said, our DIL's parents had always dreamed of a old style Cape Cod wedding for their daughter, and had been saving for it literally since she was a baby. And like I said, they are fine financially. I can assure you that nobody went home hungry. The wedding took place at 3 PM, then there was a cocktail hour with open bar and heavy hor dourves that put most wedding dinners to shame just by themselves. Then a formal dinner with an open bar and a 5 course meal that was awesome. And if that's not enough, "goodie bags" with lobster rolls and other eats for the ride home were given. And then the next morning there was a brunch for the guests who were staying on The Cape overnight. Like I said, it was a throw down. Even Elvis Pressley made an appearance: And an edit: This is the first and last time I will ever been seen dancing on video, by the way. A dancer I am not.
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Post by 404whore on Sept 3, 2014 20:45:07 GMT -5
If a man's got the money I have no problem with it.
90%+ of the time they I am not sure they do.
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Post by 61sr on Sept 3, 2014 22:47:13 GMT -5
We had a really modest wedding, still married.
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Post by gramps on Sept 4, 2014 9:25:07 GMT -5
We had a really modest wedding, still married. As did my much better half and I. But you and your lovely wife, and I and mine are from a totally different day. Things are much different in this day and time.
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Post by 61sr on Sept 4, 2014 9:59:02 GMT -5
We had a really modest wedding, still married. As did my much better half and I. But you and your lovely wife, and I and mine are from a totally different day. Things are much different in this day and time. Only one or two of our lifelong friends are married as long as us.
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Post by Orange Daddy on Sept 5, 2014 21:50:38 GMT -5
Ive been married to my bride 35 years, We been living now together total of 40 years.. We lived together 5 years before getting married. One day my girl friend told me time for me to chit or get off the pot.. SHE ready to get married now she was 28 years old.. wa hale why buy the cow when you are getting free milk.. Now she done grad from Vandy with her Masters I was still bar tending some and tending to the farm/horses for the lady singer.. I did sorta wuv the ol girl she was hot HOT looking. Let me smoke my dope, she did ever now and then not much.. Would fck me like a damn banchie woman loved to ride my deek..
I never had a degree she had 2 and to this day she never took them degrees out of the thing they came in to put them on the wall.. Said you dont have no degrees so Im not putting mine up on the wall and u not have any.. I did marry her and got a real job selling Insurance was pretty good at it.. Out of 30 salesmans in the office I was always the top 3.. I really could sell chit to Mr Clean. It was all knocking on doors to farmers self employed people.. I made a chit load of money selling Insurance problem was I was not as smart as I thought I was. I got a check ever week had to pay my own taxes. You suppose to pay quarterly.. I jacked around got in debt to the IRS for about 75K they put the hammer down rocked my world had to get a reg job .. Damm that was a mess I set up payments to them they liked to come after me one time.. thought Id throw that in
Id even get pussy selling Insurance sometimes, knock on a door a good looking horny woman open the door I put my line of chit on her. Id have her panties down in matter of no time. I did stop that screwing around on my wife Id hate to have lost her.. Im pretty lucky to still be married her her going on 35 years..
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Post by Lone Nut on Sept 16, 2014 13:57:04 GMT -5
How did I miss this latest chapter of 50 Shades of Orange Daddy?
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Post by Rudedog on Sept 17, 2014 11:47:29 GMT -5
As did my much better half and I. But you and your lovely wife, and I and mine are from a totally different day. Things are much different in this day and time. Only one or two of our lifelong friends are married as long as us. Mrs Rude and I will be married 35 years this October.
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Post by Koz on Sept 17, 2014 16:48:11 GMT -5
Kick that Barner in the nuts, OD
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