I don't get the whole fixation so many women seem to have upon getting
engaged and married , not entirely out of love for the guy, but out of
a.) a need for validation of themselves as women,
b.) material greed, especially for a diamond ring that their peers will envy, and
c.) a lifelong dream of having a "fairytale wedding" and "feeling like a princess."
I joke at work that if I ever do get married, I'll probably plan a lunchtime elopement to City Hall,
followed by a return to work for the rest of the afternoon!
weddings cost thousands, for just one day!!! some people save up for years, no i just don't get it either
I'd rather use the money to buy a house.
I had the diamond ring and also the wedding, but just not a very expensive one.
My husband bought me the diamond ring and he was the one who very much wanted a wedding, since he had never had one before.
I would have married him anywhere if it would have been just us, but if he wanted an actual wedding, I wanted it to be in the church I grew up in.
I'm sure that it was probably the most expensive party we have ever thrown in our lives, but I think the whole affair cost less than $2000 including the wedding dress, which was a handmade copy of an old Victorian dress my aunt found in her attic and gave to my mother, who gave it to me. The lace and buttons were still intact, but the cloth was rotten and falling apart, so I bought new cloth, which cost around $200, and had a seamstress friend make it for me. I planned to make it myself and carefully took apart the old dress to reuse the old lace and the buttons and use the rest as a pattern for the new dress, but I spazzed when it was time to cut the new cloth, which cost $10 a yard. At that time, it was the most expensive cloth I had ever bought.