Fucking shit

[BADDASSC6]

Well, I am getting married this April. My "wife" and I are paying for it. Some things are just fucking incredible. We went to look at invitations today at a little shop in La Jolla. They no shit wanted $2500 for 200 invitations. Sarah got online and found a much nicer product for $750. It just really pisses me the fuck off. More importantly I may have to substitute in on one of the deploying units which would result in the lack of my presence at my wedding. Yup, shore duty is not shore duty without being forward deployed.

[Leedom]

Preach on brother. When Shannon and I got married I really did not get too involved in it. Fortunately her parents were paying for it so I did not have to worry about it, but when I found out what our photographer charged... I was blown away. Not only did he get paid well for his time but when we went to get our Wedding Album he wanted $50 a page over our standard 24 page book. For the book Shannon set-up we would of had to pay an extra $1k for. Our wedding cost about the same as what I paid for both my truck and Mustang (both used). Weddings get crazy expensive real quick. I caught a few clips here and there of some of Shannon's "wedding" shows and people were blowing $30 on a dress!

[blackax]

My Fiancé and I are planing our wedding and that stuff is crazy high. I plan on paying for it all so it cant cost all that much lol

[BADDASSC6]

Sarah has been great. We are having the wedding and reception on base. That saves us a ton on location and catering. However, there are going to be a lot of people +200.

[Vettezuki]

My wife and I spent $3k total for about 50 people or so I suppose. That was in 96' and included everything, location, flowers, pictures, catering, dress, tux, rings etc. It was simple (no bridesmaids or groomsmen) but lovely and I'll always remember it.

We have a customer whose sister spent two million ($2,000,000) for two daughters and three weddings . .

[blackax]

My wife and I spent $3k total for about 50 people or so I suppose. That was in 96' and included everything, location, flowers, pictures, catering, dress, tux, rings etc. It was simple (no bridesmaids or groomsmen) but lovely and I'll always remember it.

We have a customer whose sister spent two million ($2,000,000) for two daughters and three weddings . .

I dont want to go over 5K but dear got 2 million?? Thats Crazy

[Vettezuki]

Well, the single most expensive was just one million. The other daughter got two weddings at 600k and 400k respectively for her first and second weddings.

[Shaolin Crane]

One of my best friends is a photographer, he does TONS of weddings. Let me know if you want me to ask him.

[Shaolin Crane]

I dont want to get married but dear got 2 million?? Thats Crazy

Fix.T

[blackax]

Fix.T

Just because you hate woman and are only in love with fox body's, doesnt mean you can drag me down too.

[Shaolin Crane]

I refuse to believe that, I can do amazing things when I apply myself.

[Small White Car]

The smartest thing you can do is add up the total cost of the wedding and stick that in the bank.


Then, go to Vegas and spend the $100 it costs to have a nice private ceremony that you can have video taped and put on a nice DVD that you can make copies of and send those to the guests who didn't make the trip so they can watch it over and over again.

Use the rest of the money for a down payment on a house or a new car or a vacation or something actually worthwhile besides feeding ego.

http://youtu.be/vXpsT3e8UsM?t=1m39s

[BADDASSC6]

If you include everything like honeymoon, rings, dress and invites we are close to $40k.

[Small White Car]

That's a lot of scratch just to one up someone.

A LOT of scratch...

[BADDASSC6]

It not really about one upping someone. It's about tradition and suffering. More suffering than tradition.

[C5Natie]

If you include everything like honeymoon, rings, dress and invites we are close to $40k.

Whoa, and I thought I spent a lot at $20k. We rented a nice yacht out of Newport too but we kept it down to 100 people. I saved up for a whole year. I feel your pain man but its worth it to see her and the family happy.

[Vettezuki]

A happy wife = happy husband. As long as the values are basically in line, it's really not that hard. It also gets better over time.

[Shaolin Crane]

If the queen is happy, the kingdom is happy.

[fiveohwblow]

If the queen is happy, the kingdom is happy.

If the queen requires too much to be happy, help her find a new kingdom.

[Shaolin Crane]

If the queen requires too much to be happy, help her find a new kingdom.

Or give her the old chop chop

[SkunkLookingCar]

I feel your pain on weddings. When my wife and I were getting married, we pretty much paid for everything ourselves (>95%). It is frustrating to see how much a wedding costs. It seems like things get marked up just because it is a wedding. We were able to get most vendors to reduce their price just by saying that their price was a little high for our budget and asking if there was any room for them to come down. One of the best deals we got was on the photographer. My wife had her heart set on one photographer. They happened to already be booked the date of our wedding. However, he offered to connect us with one of his assistants. The assistant had a very similar style and did our wedding for less than half of the original photographer because he wanted to build his portfolio. If you put the time in, there is quite a bit of money that can be saved.

Link to some of my wedding photographs if anyone cares:
http://hughforte.com/journal/archives/856

[Shaolin Crane]

Here's my buddy's site.
http://beautyofdigitalmoments.com/AM.php?/users/awp.php?ln=112730&p=intro

[C5Natie]

This is the yacht we got married in. Their packages are actually pretty affordable for what it is and the service was great. Really nice people. They did raise their prices a bit since 2007 though.

http://www.cynb.com/yachts/icon.aspx

[C5Natie]

Oh, and here is the limo. I surprised her with this one.
http://www.big-limos.com/images/stretch-limos/corvette/front.jpg

[87LX]

JOP wedding ftw

[enkeivette]

Congrats man!! And ya, wedding shit can get fucking ridiculous. One of my friends made her own invitations...