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Originally Posted by KTrain
A destination wedding is the most selfish thing you can do for your celebration unless you're paying for all the people you invite to attend.
"BuT ThEy DoN't HaVe To CoMe!".
Instead you're sending them on a guilt trip for choosing finances over friendship. Choosing to use their vacation time how they want instead of your plans. Buying clothes they'll never wear again so everyone in the party can match.
The best weddings I've been to recently involved the couple eloping and throwing a cheap reception for friends and family afterwards.
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A million percent this. My wife and I got married at 25. We eloped in a hotel room in Chateau Lake Louise. I paid for my friends' hotel room, too, so they were out of pocket exactly $0. Expecting young people to pay a bunch of money and time for your party is absurd and classless imo.
Also did it over a normal weekend instead of a long weekend as I know long weekends are few and far between (as well as precious).
Reception was a barbecue in my aunt and uncle's backyard one evening a couple of months later.
Any other way is fataing lame and rude.
My brother's was the actual worst. Emerald Lake Lodge in between Christmas and New Years. Like, what a ####. Had people travelling from Saskatchewan (that's where all our family is from) in the middle of winter to stay for a couple nights at one of the most expensive destinations in Western Canada at a time of year filled with a hundred other expenses, stresses and familial obligations. It was nucking futs. People went, but there was an underlying - and well deserved - resentment for the whole event dripping from everyone.
Also ridiculous is when the couple decides to throw themselves half a dozen parties in their own honour on the lead up to the event.
Weddings bring out the worst in some people.