re: Weddings are out of control

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My girlfriend is getting ready to drop over $1,000 on her friend's wedding. She has to buy a dress, get professionally done makeup on the wedding day, help throw an engagement party, help throw a bridal shower, and there's a weekend vacation for the bachelorette party. When did getting married entitle the couple to demand such money and time investments from their friends?

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Be happy its only a grand. A couple years ago I had to go to a wedding in the freaking Hamptons during football season. Steep price to be apart of that wedding.

But they did have a completely open bar at the rehearsal dinner and reception, and a cigar bar. I like to think I made back several hundred dollars via consumption