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The back two are broken and I am not a handyman.
Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
The back two are broken and I am not a handyman.
He's probably referencing this:
??~A Diamond is Forever??T and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration by Andrew M. Francis, Hugo M. Mialon :: SSRN
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In a more digestable format:
Want a happy marriage? Have a big, cheap wedding - CNN.com
I'm not sure what the last part of "lower than average" means and how much "lower than average" the 5k-10k range is. I'm also not sure on the rate for 1k-5k weddings. Its probably all in the table in the pdf linked above. There is also an engagement ring study that shows of you spend 500-2k on a ring you are less likely to get divorced vs spending over 2k. If you spend less than 500 you are also more likely for divorce.
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By 75% back in wedding gifts i meant cash. Only one single person bought us an actual gift, everything else was cash.
Someone gave us $7500, another $2500, a couple in the $500-1000 range and then the rest was the standard $50/per person.
It made my wife happy, she got dolled up for once in her life, and we all had a great time, so it's whatever. It's not for everyone, so I won't really justify it anymore.
Someone gave us $7500, another $2500, a couple in the $500-1000 range and then the rest was the standard $50/per person.
It made my wife happy, she got dolled up for once in her life, and we all had a great time, so it's whatever. It's not for everyone, so I won't really justify it anymore.
This thread is notoriously anti-wedding so I'd take everything in here with a grain of salt. In the end it comes down to if you and your wife want a large scale wedding or not. I don't know an exact number on my wedding costs but it was probably around the 18-20k range. Half of that was paid for by my parents so "out of pocket" was less than 10k most of which was recouped by gifts. Ideally this should only occur once in your life so going a bit overboard, I think, is nice.
My wedding was the cut down version. If my mother had her way the cost would have been much higher and the guest list much longer. Like I said before its a question without a definite answer because everyone's wants are different and everyone's situation is different. Which is why going to the internet going "Internet how should I wedding?" will never yield great results.
We didn't pay for shit and got about 10k so it was a win for us, but still not a great way to spend cash imo.
Two things I would completely put my foot down on are renting tuxes and 2 hours of photography with the wedding party while you have the entire family gathered and are renting a huge fucking banquet hall. Just take pictures of people partying, not black and whites of us in front of a bridge all scattered out. Da fuq.
Two things I would completely put my foot down on are renting tuxes and 2 hours of photography with the wedding party while you have the entire family gathered and are renting a huge fucking banquet hall. Just take pictures of people partying, not black and whites of us in front of a bridge all scattered out. Da fuq.
I hate the pause for pictures part. We solved it by just taking the pictures before the ceremony. Neither one of us really cared about the whole not seeing the bride tradition and it made it so we could have the ceremony and 30 minutes later we're back. I kind of hate big catholic weddings where you're at the church and it goes down then you break for like 4 hours and then you come back for the reception. Its basically me just getting drunk at Applebees for 4 hours.
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We didn't even know about any of the money before. Basically went into it completely writing it off as a loss.
Meanwhile my bitch of a stepsister complained that the gifts at her wedding weren't enough. Her idiot of a dad actually gave her more money after she complained. Yes, she's on welfare.
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Our wedding was about $25k but we got about $28k in cash gifts from the 250+ asians that showed up. So it was great. The actual "wedding" was nearly free due to being in a church that my wife's family is affiliated with, its just the reception that cost money. But we had really good food, open bar, live band, etc. Not that I got to enjoy any of that.
I also didn't know most of the people and neither did my wife so it could have been a lot smaller/cheaper and been perfectly fine. But the more asians you invite the more cash you get so its fine to scale up.
I also didn't know most of the people and neither did my wife so it could have been a lot smaller/cheaper and been perfectly fine. But the more asians you invite the more cash you get so its fine to scale up.
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We only invited people we wanted to invite - meant excluding some family members, believe me I've never heard the end of it.
I enjoyed everything a little bit is the best way to describe it. I only had a little food, and it was so goddamn delicious, so I wished I had taken more time to eat. Also I never got any of the cake, someone there actually ate my piece (no one fessed up).
I enjoyed everything a little bit is the best way to describe it. I only had a little food, and it was so goddamn delicious, so I wished I had taken more time to eat. Also I never got any of the cake, someone there actually ate my piece (no one fessed up).
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All the asian people I know provide cash gifts. We only invited like 30 white people and they all gave me retarded gifts that I still haven't opened 15 years later. Lost money on those fuckers.
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I did get a ton of servingware from my wedding that I rarely use. I didn't really want it. Some people were insistant on buying a physical gift instead of giving me cash despite me saying thats what I wanted so I had to register at Bed Bath and Beyond for a bunch of shit I didn't really want since my wife and I had already been living together for 3 years. If I needed a fucking toaster I would have already bought a fucking toaster. My mom's side family didn't quite seem to grasp that this isn't the olden days where you get married at 18 with nothing to your name.
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My wife refused to even register hoping that would push the white people into giving us cash. Nope. One of them gave me a marble chess set. Haha.