How do you pay for TWO weddings in ONE YEAR?
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Daughter #1 got engaged a month ago and daughter #2 just called from the top of the mountain at Copper Mountain in Colorado to tell me her boyfriend just proposed!!!
How does a dad pay for two weddings in one year????
Here's one option...
But I don't think so... maybe I should sell the house instead!@!
How does a dad pay for two weddings in one year????
Here's one option...
But I don't think so... maybe I should sell the house instead!@!
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How selfish of them
and did you know that scientists discovered the food that kills the sex drive in women ? Uh huh... WEDDING CAKE
God bless you and yours,....
I would suggest a tandem wedding.
<< <i>How do you pay for TWO weddings in ONE YEAR? >>
Continually wisper three words in their ear.
E.
Lope.
Ment.
Maybe it will take with one of them.
Seriously, when we got married (in 1980) our in-laws said here is up to $10,000 to spend on the wedding or keep the money.
So we decided on a pleasant but not too elaborate wedding and reception in the Temple. It was a nice afternoon luncheon which keeps the cost way down. One birds of paradise on each table (our favorite flower).
I also suggest that you get your kids to agree to get married in tandem or in different years! That gives you a fighting chance!
Otherwise, the combined weddings will cost much more than $18,920!
Congratulations! ...but I'd allow the happy couples to pay for it themselves. People usually are much more sensible and prudent when it's their money that's being spent - instead of someone else's.
I always have admired your proof set.
I've had two weddings. The first when I was 19 didn't cost the father much. The reception was at his house. Only relatives and close friends were invited so it was small.
My second wedding was even less expensive. We went to city hall and then out to dinner, no friends or family, just a witness.
edited to add: It was the first and only divorce that was expensive
do not spend a ton of money on it. too many divorces now days.
save it all for the 5th year anniversary of their marraige
when you know they will probably stick together and deserve
a real treat!
Wouldn't it make much more sense to hold a modest wedding and give them a "getting started" gift that will help them from falling into the debt trap that now affects so many young couples?
Congrats by the way!
What is the current flight schedule out of O'Hare to Vegas? 2 one way flights would work
the new hubbies should fend for themselves if they are that much in love.
Russ
<< <i>Buy two ladders, leave them outside your daughter's windows. >>
Yeah......That's the ticket...!!!!.............................
or two shotgun weddings in Vegas?
Weddings are the biggest scam/ripoff going... money better spent on a new car, a downpayment for a house or, if the marriage actually lasts... a nice Anniversary party down the road.
Congrats. I might suggest giving them a budget, or leave them guessing. Tell them that you will pay up to a certain amount, but don't tell them what that amount is. Once they cross that line, the rest is on them. Since they don't know what that line is, they are likely to keep things to a minimum. Plus, if the cross the line just a little and you give in to pay the rest, you come out looking like a hero.
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<< <i>I love all the logic and points of view of the guy side of this. While I tend to agree, my wife sees things differently. She is as interested, if not more so, in having an appropriate, proper wedding... "no eloping, no cutting corners, after all, these are our daughters and they deserve the best on the biggest day of their life." I proposed bribing them to elope and I got hit up side the head. Hey, it's only money and nothing a few extra years of work can't pay for... right??? >>
And my answer would be why does "the best" have to mean "expensive"? Riddle me THAT, Batman!
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Done.
YJ
<< <i>Why is that fathers like inexpensive and small weddings and mothers go nuts with bigger and more expensive weddings >>
Until the most recent generations, the father went out and made the money, the mother stayed home and SPENT the money.
Explain to your daughters about how the tradition of the brides parents paying for the wedding is a hold over of the even older tradition of the family having to pay the groom a dowery to get him to take lower valued, less important female child off the parents hands. But you feel that your daughters are NOT low valued or less important and that you see no reason why you should PAY to let someone take these valuable treasures away from you. If these young men want to take them, they can darn well pay for them themselves.