Weddings?
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rovercanus said:
HAHAHA should have told that to my best friends parents who hired me to be the secutity at their daughters wedding this summer. I had the .45 and 2 mags locked, cocked, and ready to rock if any of her hippy friends got out of line or too close to the rover:sniper:
.45's are ideal for taking out hippies. I've seen .38's bounce off of thier hemp necklaces. Good choice.enonz98lr said:
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In 1994 when we got married, I was just out of grad school and Tami's dad was just out of a job. We were all broke and did our wedding as cheaply as you possibly could.
Still ran about $4k in 1994 dollars.
Advice: focus on what makes the time with family and friends the most enjoyable. Spend money on those things and if you have to cheap out on the rest, do it.
The reception was the best - connecting with old friends and family. Focus on what creates memories and relationships. That will last, all the rest you'll eventually forget.
Congrats.
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Still ran about $4k in 1994 dollars.
Advice: focus on what makes the time with family and friends the most enjoyable. Spend money on those things and if you have to cheap out on the rest, do it.
The reception was the best - connecting with old friends and family. Focus on what creates memories and relationships. That will last, all the rest you'll eventually forget.
Congrats.
BT
1) Have the reception in a location in "off season". I got married in Newport at the astors mansion and saved 10K by going off season.
2) Don"t rent any location for the reception that requires you use their caterers.
3) always go for the open bar.... granted it's reasonable. We paid $1500 extra and it covered beer, wine and some liquor.
4) research the caterers yourself. You don't need to spend a bunch of money for a good meal for a wedding.
5) the most important thing I can tell you is go away someplace for the wedding! That way only some family can come and it's a good way for people to back out without hurting anyone's feelings.
By the way, I have picked all this up by getting married myself and being the best man for 2 friends. Good luck!
2) Don"t rent any location for the reception that requires you use their caterers.
3) always go for the open bar.... granted it's reasonable. We paid $1500 extra and it covered beer, wine and some liquor.
4) research the caterers yourself. You don't need to spend a bunch of money for a good meal for a wedding.
5) the most important thing I can tell you is go away someplace for the wedding! That way only some family can come and it's a good way for people to back out without hurting anyone's feelings.
By the way, I have picked all this up by getting married myself and being the best man for 2 friends. Good luck!
Mafia wedding? Who else needs security at a wedding?enonz98lr said:
BTW $1500 or so in 92. Catering as a gift, cake as a gift, dress was her mothers, carriage as a gift, wedding and reception at Montgomery Bell State Park in TN.
Man, I wish $4k would have been sufficient. I could have bought a really, really nice D90 after what my wedding cost....and still had extra.
Weddings are worth the price you pay when you see your new wife's face knowing it's what she wanted.
Weddings are worth the price you pay when you see your new wife's face knowing it's what she wanted.
I'm just getting tired of everyone of my friends getting married out of state. LAst summer I had 2 seperate wedding in Hawaii, 1 in St. Louis, another in Dallas. The one is Hawaii was the same fam as the Buck Owens wedding, the guests and wedding party took over most of the Turtle Bay Hilton and it lasted almost a week with golf days for the guys, spa days for the girls they had the entire ordeal set as though we were all on vacation. Expensive but so much fun!
I had another friend who's family have so many social contacts, they had it on a yaght in Newport Harbor as an excuse not to have to envite evryone they knew. I think it might have been 150 people.
I had another friend who's family have so many social contacts, they had it on a yaght in Newport Harbor as an excuse not to have to envite evryone they knew. I think it might have been 150 people.
bovw said:
close.....theres a small family feud between some of the family that i was supposed to keep an eye on...........the hippies were not part of our deal but were taken care of
antichrist said:
Tom,
I'm with you 100% on that one. I just do not understand the craziness of weddings these days. In my opinion, things have gotten carried away due to all of the media coverage and reality type shows of "special" weddings.
These days it seems like a bride is cheated if she does not get the full works... which I think is sad.
Besides the money, think of all the stress involved. Yuck.
If there are ample funds available, I'd much rather see a couple have a small simple wedding and then have an extravagant honeymoon to start out married life.
Even so...
brianhoberg said:
Wow, that is so sweet.
:applause:Timmy!!!!!!! said:
I don't think so. I was married this summer by my wife's godfather. In Alaska (don't know if you can do this elsewhere) every citizen can do one (maybe more, but I was told one) marriage in a lifetime. I think it means more to be married by a family member than to hire a preist/paster etc especially if you're not terribly religious or don't go to a church regularly.
Timmy!!!!!!! said:
Wouldn't be cheap at all. My father actually WANTED to perform not only my wedding, but my sisters wedding, cousin's wedding and the weddings of some of our friends. Often, it's a very personal addition to have a family member perform the wedding. My father is an ordained Baptist minister though, so he didn't have the "online" credential from the questionable Universal Life Church or the like.
Heck, I'll do the ceremony for a swap: I preach, you change the oil, diff fluid, and transmission fluids in my D II :rofl:Drillbit said: