/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8377023
I agree that a pot luck open invite wouldn't have been my choice, But I can understand why someone would do it. I got married in the past year and I'm happy to be married but that whole planning part sucked ass. It was nice to think about having a classy wedding with a custom cake, embossed invitations, and a nice pasta dinner. Then you see how just to get enough subway sandwiches for 50 people is going to cost $600, bottom of the barel photographers start at $1500, a basic dance hall is 2k with no chairs or tables, and a basic bouquet is $150-300. All of that shit adds up and I can easily understand how the average wedding is $10k in the US.

We DIYd a lot of our backyard wedding, but since I didn't have a wedding planner and a lot of the stuff was hard to coordinate the day of as the bride, a few things ended up being left out. You only have so much time and hands to do stuff. There are certainly trashy weddings (I hate camo/hunting weddings) but I'm much more sympathetic to brides now.

If there's anything I wish I could redo about my wedding was having someone be my day of coordinator.