Things you just don't get

[lasbar]



Mine was 700 ppl.

700????

Did you invite all Ballteemoore Jewish community?

 

[whiteslashasian]



Mine was 700 ppl.

700????
Did you invite all Ballteemoore Jewish community?

Hot damn. I think my wedding (should I ever have one) will be like 80 people, tops.

 

[Gibonius]

It's surprisingly easy to get 100+. My wife and I basically only invited family, maybe 20 friends, and a lot of people were from out of town which tends to lower attendance. Still ended up with a hundred people. Anybody that goes all out and invites everybody from both church groups, parent's neighbors, etc, etc can end up with 300+ rather quickly.

 

[lasbar]



It's surprisingly easy to get 100+. My wife and I basically only invited family, maybe 20 friends, and a lot of people were from out of town which tends to lower attendance. Still ended up with a hundred people. Anybody that goes all out and invites everybody from both church groups, parent's neighbors, etc, etc can end up with 300+ rather quickly.

Church groups , sport teams , big families and you can be there quite quickly..

It depends if you want a more personal touch or a big party as long as it doesn't turn out like a corporate event...

 

[Sir Humphrey Appleby]

LinkedIn. I get what its for, I just haven't got a clue how to use the bloody thing.

 

[in stitches]

I guess its a little hard to put into words, but despite the size it was far from a corporate event.

Between my wife and I, our (great/grand) parents, (great) aunts uncles, cousins, siblings and nieces and nephews added up to well over 100 ppl. And either my wife or I knew every other guest by name.

It was large no doubt, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it. It felt very personal.

 

[Big Pun]

My Lay's potato chip bag suggests I like them on facialbook and twitter.

 

[Master-Classter]

one of the aspects I don't get about weddings is the need to spend money on the guests... hear me out. My take is that the wedding is supposed to be a celebration FOR the couple, and everyone brings a little something to help them get started on their new life together. Instead, nowadays the couple wants to impress their own guests so much that they spend way more per head than they get in 'value' from the guest that they end up losing money (and often debt) int he process, or their parents who are near retirement drop like $20-50K... I know it's a celebration and all but it should be a focus on togetherness, future, love, etc not food, bands, and crystal-ware. Now that's not to say we can't have nice things, but I'm being a little old fashioned here I guess and it seems silly to me that the new family will start off by spending a huge chunk of what they have... eg that same money would be better used a year later to raise their kid or something.

 

[in stitches]

In the my culture (orthodox jewish), the parents pay for it 95% of the time. So the new couple keeps all the swag. We used the bulk of ours years later as a down payment on our house, and some of it to furnish our apartment that we first lived in.

How the parents do it beats the hell out of me, and scares me for the future. But where I live your can have a large sized wedding for well under the amounts mentioned. Its just won't be lavish. There are many ways to include more people and cut costs in other areas.

My wedding was far from lavish, but it was more important to me and my family to dance and be with as many people as we loved as possible on the big day. So we found ways to include more people by spending less on food and the hall and such.

 

[Rambo]



In the my culture (orthodox jewish), the parents pay for it 95% of the time. So the new couple keeps all the swag. We used the bulk of ours years later as a down payment on our house, and some of it to furnish our apartment that we first lived in.
How the parents do it beats the hell out of me, and scares me for the future. But where I live your can have a large sized wedding for well under the amounts mentioned. Its just won't be lavish. There are many ways to include more people and cut costs in other areas.
My wedding was far from lavish, but it was more important to me and my family to dance and be with as many people as we loved as possible on the big day. So we found ways to include more people by spending less on food and the hall and such.

You're going to have to shell out for like 7 weddings Stitchy. You better start instilling in the LittleStitches that small weddings in cheap locale's are a good thing.

 

[in stitches]



You're going to have to shell out for like 7 weddings Stitchy. You better start instilling in the LittleStitches that small weddings in cheap locale's are a good thing.

i honestly dont want to make a small wedding. its almost not an option. obviously what ny children want will play a major factor, but assuming they want a larger wedding i will be more than happy to oblige. i just dont know how the **** im gonna pay for it. but it s while away so i dont worry about it right now.

 

[robinsongreen68]



I don't "get" big weddings.

i have honestly never met a man who particularly wanted a big wedding. Amongst my friends at least, it's always been the woman's idea, with the man dragged along, secretly dreading the expense.

 

[L'Incandescent]

I think there are lots of people who want to get married so that they can have a wedding. For them, it would defeat much of the purpose of getting married if the wedding weren't a huge fairy-tale spectacle.

 

[Big Pun]

Girls trying to come up with unique and quirky names for their new spawn. My friend wants to name her new boy "Halo". It's almost selfish, hey look at how original I am! Meanwhile Halo will grow up to be a cattle ******. Thank god I have an awesome name.

 

[oneeightyseven]



Girls trying to come up with unique and quirky names for their new spawn. My friend wants to name her new boy "Halo". It's almost selfish, hey look at how original I am! Meanwhile Halo will grow up to be a cattle ******. Thank god I have an awesome name.