…to a reasonable degree, at least.

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    Weddings.

    Yes, It IS a big day. It’s not such a big day that you spend your entire life savings, and have no future.

    Get a DJ, get a cake, get a hall, get a photographer…forget the doves, forget the ice sculptures, forget the wedding planner, forget the genocidial mimes, forget the big limo, keep it small. Do you really need to invite your great aunt, who you’ve seen 3 times in your life?

    You should NOT be spending like $20,000 on a wedding.

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      A friend of mine donned his nicest clothes and went down to the courthouse with his fiance and a couple of witnesses. I mentioned this to my sister, and she mentioned that in retrospect, she wished she’d done something similar when she got married.

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      Spent less than 1k, no real honeymoon…but we bought our first house with the money we saved. 0 regrets.

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      $20k?

      Damn dude, all my friends getting married are spending a minimum of $50k. $15k gets you the venue for the night without anything else included or factored in (food, music, fucking chairs or tables or lights, etc)

      Weddings are a predatory business.

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        It varies a LOT regionally.

        Look for a venue in Maryland, you know, with DC right there.

        I have a friend who’s entire wedding was the same price as a venue in Maryland.

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      I’m in agreement except for the wedding planner. Whether they help with the planning from day one or are just the day-of coordinator, a good wedding planner is worth their weight in gold. I’d rather plug an old mp3 player into a portable speaker and skip the DJ before I recommend skipping out on the planner.

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        Oh, by DJ, yeah, thats all he’d be doing is controlling the winamp playlist basically.

        And a wedding planner I don’t see as being needed.

        Step 1) rent local venue.

        Step 2) ask cousin to be DJ.

        Step 3) pick up cake from dairy queen.

        Step 4) Flowers??? I’m sure the florist can figure something out.

        Thats about it.