Cad
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It weighs like 50lbs so is it ok if I throw it at you when you're not looking?
Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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Frenzied Wombat
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Jews and Asians both give cash as wedding gifts. A lot more practical than some stupid wedding registry.
Soygen
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Noodleface
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We didn't even do a registry, we had already been living together for years too. Didn't stop one person from getting us a giant italian style serving bowl and nice servingware for it. It holds my keys and sometimes apples.
Cad
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I certainly haven't viewed marriage as a punishment. Perhaps you should choose your wife carefully.
And if I have to bring that goddamn chess set somewhere, its getting thrown at somebody. Your new mother in law perhaps? Give me a target.
Noodleface
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Erronius
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Before a friends wedding, I ended up having to faux-break into the (Asian) brides house and then bid on the bride...or something? I had literally stepped out of the car and someone gave me a red envelope and then insanity ensued. I'm still confused about what exactly went on.
Cad
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There's some pretty stupid cultural rituals that asians still participate in in america. When my brothers in law got engaged there was a party at the brides parents houses, and we were supposed to bring gifts. I always ended up helping carry this giant fucking roast pig. And it's like the whole pig. You know how retarded it looks to be in like full wedding dress gear carrying a big ass roasted pig down the street in white america?
Answer: pretty retarded
Itlan
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You smug prick.I certainly haven't viewed marriage as a punishment. Perhaps you should choose your wife carefully.
And if I have to bring that goddamn chess set somewhere, its getting thrown at somebody. Your new mother in law perhaps? Give me a target.
opiate82
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For my wedding my parents gave us $10k up front, said we can do whatever the heck we wanted with it. Then each of my wife's parents (split family) chipped in $5k each. My parents were like "have a wedding, save it for a house payment, do whatever you want with it." I have a feeling my wife's parents only chipped in because of the wedding and wouldn't have given us the cash otherwise. We covered probably another $5k out of our own pockets. For gifts we got about $10k in cash, $5k in kitchen shit, and another ~$3k worth of random stuff.
For a fully catered party $100 per person doesn't sound that unreasonable, wedding or otherwise. Even my college parties which included no food, shitty beer and a disgusting "venue" usually looked for everyone to chip in around $20 per head. If you filter out some expenses that were just for us, like the photography, rings, etc. probably closer to $75 per person. Included a steak dinner and all you could drink (craft) beer and nice wine. Pretty easy to rack up a $75 per person bill just going out for a nice dinner.
Could you throw a giant party for cheaper, sure, but nothing wrong with being a little fancy for once-in-a-lifetime-event.
For a fully catered party $100 per person doesn't sound that unreasonable, wedding or otherwise. Even my college parties which included no food, shitty beer and a disgusting "venue" usually looked for everyone to chip in around $20 per head. If you filter out some expenses that were just for us, like the photography, rings, etc. probably closer to $75 per person. Included a steak dinner and all you could drink (craft) beer and nice wine. Pretty easy to rack up a $75 per person bill just going out for a nice dinner.
Could you throw a giant party for cheaper, sure, but nothing wrong with being a little fancy for once-in-a-lifetime-event.
Cad
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Itlan
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opiate82
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Yeah, even if I remarry (for whatever reason) I probably wouldn't do a big family wedding again. I've had that experience, I'm glad I had it, but yeah... VEGAS BABY!
Itlan
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Fair enough. My dad remarried and was just like "eh let's all go to Mexico for vacation."
Noodleface
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If I were to ever get married again.. and seriously why in the fuck would I.. I would just go to the courthouse and have a barbeque in my back yard.
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I and everyone else that attended had a great time at my wedding. Wasn't too terribly expensive though and most of it was covered by mine and my wife's parents. Plus now I have a story to tell for the rest of my life about how I almost got a DUI the night before the wedding pulled over literally right in front of my future in-law's house as they looked out through the kitchen window laughing hysterically.