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Originally Posted by Russic
I never once really thought of the gifts as helping me break even.
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I kind of went into it thinking this way myself, but after having to write a few ridiculously stupid checks to cover things, I definitely got a little more calculating about it.
I can see where Albert is coming from. Weddings are a total racket these days, and unless you do some tiny family-only event (which in my case was impossible to do anyway considering my wife has about 80-90 family members alone), it's really hard to keep it affordable. We're not talking about a weekend bbq here.... most decent sized wedding these days are at least 15-20k....if you can claw back any of that, you're pretty grateful. So yeah, if someone gives you $25 bucks, the part of you that's already dying inside thinking of all the other things you couldve done with the wedding money will resent them a bit.
Oh, and it's one thing to want a small wedding.....it's a totally different thing to keep it small when the mothers get involved with their dema- err, i mean suggestions.