‘She is just shifting all of the costs onto other people’: Entitled bride expects guests to pitch in for her “free” wedding, then a friend gives her a wakeup call

Everything could be technically «free» if someone else pays for it, but planning your wedding around the expectation that all of your guests—family, friends, and work buddies—will front the cost isn’t following the trendy «free wedding» style; you’re just freeloading.  Recently, a trend has been going around promoting «free» weddings, or events that are essentially …
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Twin gets snubbed out of his brother’s engagement celebrations and repeatedly left out of family events after moving to Portland, so he skips the wedding entirely: ‘I was only invited for optics’

Twins are tight.  Often boasting of their twinnish connection and their mind-reading capabilities, twins have a connection that many siblings will never truly understand. A twin is like an extension of yourself, and to avoid getting too spiritual about it, twins share their experience in life as a duo from the moment they enter this …
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Freeloader belittles a friend’s 5-year profession as a photographer, demanding they work their wedding for free to «build their portfolio,» they challenge their cheap attitude with facts: ‘I charge $1,000+ per wedding’

There’s one thing you learn immediately when you start working in a service-based trade: Never work for free. For some reason, clients seem to think that providing a service is less important than buying goods. While a physical purchase may be unthinkable to attempt to haggle the price, entitled customers will almost always try to …
Seguir leyendo Freeloader belittles a friend’s 5-year profession as a photographer, demanding they work their wedding for free to «build their portfolio,» they challenge their cheap attitude with facts: ‘I charge $1,000+ per wedding’

‘We paid extra for the honeymoon suite’: Couple’s honeymoon gets hijacked by a younger sister’s elopement, entitled bride demands her older brother give up his honeymoon suite so she can have a ‘real’ wedding night

Younger siblings never realize they’re the Golden Child. Mom and Dad finally got the little girl they wanted and big brother is left out in the cold—for the rest of his life.  This older brother saw the full extent of his family’s favoritism when it came to his honeymoon day. Postponed over a year after …
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Dad refuses to pay $100k for his youngest daughter to have a ‘princess wedding,’ blames the in-laws for pressuring a frivolous formal event: ‘The in-laws want a big splash’

Having a wedding like they do in the movies is no simple task. Flowers, cake, decor, chair rentals, catering, bartenders, and a venue to host it all is just scratching the surface of the carnage that a parent’s bank account faces when their child agrees to marry their beloved. Arguably, any parental contribution to the …
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‘I attended a social media photoshoot, not a wedding’: Couple’s influencer-style wedding lasts four days, guests foot the bill for final dinner

Weddings these days are a whole production. I went to one last weekend for an old college roommate, and the level of detail that goes into planning is insane. Not only were there three different photographers walking around, but they also had a videographer and someone exclusively taking film photos. Why do you need that …
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Cheapskate bride asks amateur friend to photograph her wedding for $300, adds 4 more photoshoots and complains when she charges $250 more: ‘Once I sent everything, they blocked me on all social media’

A wedding photographer is underratedly one of the most important parts of a wedding. Sure, you want to make sure that the venue is right, the flowers are flowering, and the dress is what you dreamed of, but what good is any of that if there are no photos to remember them by? Your wedding …
Seguir leyendo Cheapskate bride asks amateur friend to photograph her wedding for $300, adds 4 more photoshoots and complains when she charges $250 more: ‘Once I sent everything, they blocked me on all social media’

Bride and groom gift $800 to each wedding guest, pay for their first-class flights: ‘For a 100 guests that’s like half a million alone’

Many people dream of their fairytale wedding. Movies and TV shows put big ideas in our heads about over-the-top ceremonies in exotic, far-flung locales, huge couture gowns, and all the bells and whistles. Weddings capture our imaginations: they’re parties, yes, but they’re also public displays of love, family, and most importantly, of wealth. They’re opportunities …
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Llama Dresses as Groomsman for Wedding, Inspires Amusing Response on Twitter

In these days where all declarations of love are engineered into being a social media spectacle, it’s kind of hard to do something original at a wedding. Most of the strangest or most ‘quirky’ ideas have already been taken by some dedicated bridezilla somewhere.  Also, most of them don’t wind up being much fun for …
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Wedding Memes For the Soon-To-Be Married Folk

Happy Wedding Season? I don’t think it’s really wedding season, but it’s wedding season for me because I’m about to go to the very first wedding of someone my own age. I thought I might be freaked out that one of my high school friends is about to get hitched, but I’m doing nothing of …
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