I have been to about 10 weddings each year for 3 years now
Saying no to lots this year, but I am going to a bent wedding
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 8:56, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I've been a bridesmaid three times in the last year.
Hen weekends, travel, hotels, extra shoes all add up. My cousins wedding cost me close to £600.
Don't get me wrong, I love my friends and am very happy to have been asked. Hmmmm I just sound a bit moany here don't I?
( wanderlust, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:00, Reply)

not at all, costs me a small fortune
some of the boys just got back from a stag do in Vegas, it was £2k +
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:01, Reply)

That's just madness.
Can't people just have an evening in the pub?

I went to Budapest a few months ago for a hen. That I didn't mind though as I organised it all so was sensible regarding costs. Plus, it was hilarious.
( wanderlust, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:04, Reply)

I did Amsterdam last year that cost that cost £750 in the end...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:08, Reply)

Warsaw, Riga and Berlin recently.
There's something a bit too LAD about stag weekends for my tastes. Plus I ALWAYS set off the metal detector and have to get my willy out in that body scanner thing :(
( Kroney, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:12, Reply)

Jeeze
Budapest next time he gets married then? Cheap and beautiful and fun.
The best bit was the bride's face when she realised where we were going. She had no idea until we got to the departure gate.
( wanderlust, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:14, Reply)

when you think that 50% end up getting divorced
that's a LOT of wasted cash.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:20, Reply)

Not quite 50%
www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/divorces-in-england-and-wales/2011/sty-what-percentage-of-marriages-end-in-divorce.html

Luckily we don't all spend £100k on weddings
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:22, Reply)

yeah, but the number is going up all the time, i bet it was about 2% a hundred years ago
the wedding industry employs a LOT of people, which is good, but imma guess that's not such a comfort to battered's father in law right now. or my friend's dad, who spent £250k on his daughter's new years eve wedding, which included a massive firework display and a 3 day free bar in the marquee. by april, they'd split up.

cracking new year's eve party, mind.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:25, Reply)

I though marriage rates were going down?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:31, Reply)

I know.
I think two of the couples won't last.
I really hope I'm wrong as I love them all dearly. But yeah marrying a gay man wasn't the smartest thing my female cousin has done.
( wanderlust, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:23, Reply)

D'you think he misunderstood about gays being allowed to marry now?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:24, Reply)

ha!
He does love her, but I reckon he loves the cock more.
( wanderlust, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:30, Reply)

Still, at least their house looks nice

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:35, Reply)

sometimes i think that'd be a damn sight easier than a straight one, mind you...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:26, Reply)

50% of marriages may end in divorce
but people forget that some people get married loads of times 66% of my mums marriages have ended in divorce and shes just one person. So idiots don't learn after the 4th time. So yes Basically that stats are skewed because some people get divorced several times whereas others are too scared to leave their wives in case they beat them harder. Out of those 10 weddings I bet only 3 will get divorced and then remarry and two of them will divorce again and again and again because they are whores.
( Peej, Tue 8 Apr 2014, 10:05, Reply)