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That's pretty normal. I've also done that for a few weeks after army service was up.

What I really don't understand is when a couple goes into big time debt just for the wedding ceremony, and often the bride's folks as well. I've heard of one couple who "had to" sell their home and move into an apartment to give their daughter an "appropriate" wedding.

We made sure that neither of our parents had to pay anything and that our wedding ceremony was reasonable and could be comfortably paid from our savings (without raiding the account). Credit card use for the wedding was zilch.

We got married in the rotunda of SF City Hall, on Valentine's Day, by a very nice lady in a black robe. Cost $20, but then we went to Stars Cafe and blew another $30 on lunch.

Last marriage I attended, the 150 or so guests met at a fancy hotel. A fleet of fake cable cars took us across town to a chapel in the Presidio for the ceremony, then back to the Ferry Building for the reception. They took the whole top floor, free drinks, dinner by the Slanted Door. Must have cost $100K.

We attended a surprise wedding on East Brother Island. We thought it was a picnic, until they told us to step around behind the lighthouse. There were the bride+groom+preacher, all dressed up for a wedding. I thought that was awfully considerate of them.

John

Ah, Jeorg, we are so much alike!

When we got married, we were still in college, so had a small ceremony there. We paid for the flowers, the photos (a real mess, but then we were young then, and didn't know to get things in writing!) the cakes, etc. We didn't even HAVE a credit card at the time! Her folks helped out on some of the expenses, and her mom made the dress. I just rented a tux. It was simple, and inexpensive, and still very memorable!

Charlie

Went to the minister's house and got married for FREE... _50_years_ago_this_coming_March_31_ ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Isn't a "meat factory" also known as a "farm"? ;-)

Cheers! Rich

The husband of my admin was in the military. One day he swung by just to say hello, in full battle dress. The millisecond he had left people came into my office and nervously asked "Did something happen?"

Radium is an alpha-emitter and Tritium emits a low energy beta particle. Dead skin will stop either and certainly the watch crystal will. The danger was much like that the mad hatters faced, not those who wore the hats. Chalk that one up to proto-warmingist fear mongering.

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Why not? They did the same with pictures of those cuddly white bears.

Sky falling there? ;-)

I was in college when we got married. Her parents paid for everything but the minister (that cost me a week's pay and he only charge me half the normal $100 ;). I think they shelled out about $1000 but 80% of that was the dress. It still haunts me (moved it twice in the last two years).

No, the "meat factory" is the "farm's" customer.

Charlie E. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

kids these days are more into self-gratification. They will go into debt with an expensive wedding,they'll buy boob jobs on credit while their kids go without stuff,etc.Gotta have two cars,a gym membership,go clubbing all the time, and so on. No savings.

They don't plan for the future.

Yup, I was never really concerned about it.

It's falling here at the moment, in liquid form. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Answered my question. ;-)

All four of our kids had their own cars, orthodontics and family-paid-for college, weddings for the girls, rehearsal dinners for the boys, and down-payments for their first houses... but I never did have a gym membership or get a boob job ;-)

And all that extended family will be here for Christmas !! ...Jim Thompson

The amazing thing is that my wife still fits into her dress. I, on the other hand ...

I'd never suggest...

Exactly. I'd get the (back of the) other hand...

What! You can't fit into her dress any more?