Never, ever, book a location for a “Wedding”. Always book it for a “Family Event”.
Reminds me of a blog I followed about a guy having a castle built. He’d get contractors out for various bits and before they arrived they’d be like “oh its X for job Y” but when they got there and saw that it was for a castle, well magically the cost doubled. This might make sense in some parts but when the painter is trying to increase his price for square footage he quoted on the phone? Nah fam that ain’t it.
Water from the tap: basically free
Gotta pay 399 for the glass though.
If you live with your parents, yes.
Tap water in the US costs on average about $0.01 per gallon or less. People typically drink a gallon or less per day, so about $0.30 per month. Your water bill is pretty much not affected by the tap water you drink, just the water you use for everything else.
Bottled water is easily hundreds of times the cost.
If you think getting married is expensive, try getting divorced.
Divorce water was free what are you talking about?
Until you realized the labor to bring it to the conference room is billed at $800/hr with minimum 15-minute increments.
Oh 😔
I got some free branded mints from my law firm.
Those were tears, dude.
I purchased a catering dinner package (which came with tea, coffee, and lemonade) and full open bar - apparently neither of these included water. That was an additional $200.00.
Now I imagine some guys thinking “Ah, I don’t want to fuck up ChexMaxs financial situation. I’ll just drink water the whole night to save him some money!”
I’m guessing this isn’t the UK, cause anywhere that sells alcohol is required by law to be able to supply free tap water
It’s shocking how many restaurants try to get around this rule by refusing to designate a tap as being safe for drinking. A place near me got shut down a while ago for trying to pull this shit, because it revoked their license to serve alcohol on premises, and in turn caused a lot of shit with their lease, food safety ratings, etc.
If you end up doing a big wedding I would recommend telling as many of the vendors and suppliers that it’s for a birthday party instead. It’ll still be expensive but should be more manageable
“Yes, I’d like the traditional tiered birthday cake with the bride and groom on top. Thanks.”
“How much are your birthday rose petal cannons?”
You would be surprised. Family friends of ours are Greek and rich, and they do not do anything small. I hate to perpetuate stereotypes but if you’ve seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, it’s like that with them but for everything. Birthdays, the christian holidays, just a summer BBQ, all huge. The bride and groom on top yeah that’ll tip the baker off but that’s not hard to quickly put on yourself.
As a Greek myself, I can confirm that My Big Fat Greek Wedding was basically a documentary.
People tend to demand perfection when it comes to weddings. I’m pretty sure that’s why it’s more expensive. In general, prices rise alongside expectations.
With how much self-centered egotistical annoyances wedding planners and other suppliers have to deal with sometimes, I might actually be inclined to understand that pricing
Exactly. It’s the bridezilla tax
You see this in aviation and heavy rail transport as well for a similar reason. The critical items like the engines, control systems and emergency equipment being expensive is obvious, they’ve been heavily tested and made super resilient with very strict certification criteria, but it even extends down to things that has pretty much zero impact on safety. That flimsy seat back table that can barely hold your laptop and that hard as a rock cushion cost the airline far more than you can imagine, costs which are inevetably passed onto you.
Getting married in about 6 weeks. Compared to my first one 10 years ago, it’s nuts. One metric I read said that wedding costs were up 40% post COVID. My first wedding was maybe $5,000 and that was super strict budget. This one is closer to $25k.
My fiancée was quoted between $300-650 for makeup only. Seriously?? DJ is minimum $900 for 5 hours of work, I got a lot of quotes in the $1300 range, or $2200 for better lighting ($440/hour??) Look I know you had to buy your own equipment but holy hell.
Thanks for reaffirming my desire to never get married
There are a lot of people who just have weddings with only the closest parts of their friend/family circle rather than making it auper extravagant.
My uncle just sent an email to everyone after the fact
And you know what? I highly respect that
I did a private wedding with just my wife, photographer, beautiful venue for $600
Having a wedding at the local all-you-can-eat sounds very enticing.
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You can buy a good quality speaker that comes with free Amazon music at best buy for less than that. If you have a friend that doesn’t mind talking on a mic infrastructure of a crowd you are probably better off without a real dj, your friend would also likely get the names right for your wedding party being announced.
We paid over 1k for dj+wedding video, and it really wasn’t worth it.
I didn’t have a DJ the first time around, just a laptop and Spotify playlist (was at a church that has a speaker system, so we got to hook into that). It was fine, but we booked an actual venue for this wedding.
No idea if I’ll feel like it was really worth it when it’s all said and done, but so far I actually like all the vendors picked.
Hey, we just got married for around your price point back in May. It was pricey for sure, but that budget allowed us to do what we wanted, which was throwing a balls-out party for 50 of our closest family and friends. It was incredible and we absolutely do not regret it.
People always tell you that it’s supposed to be the best day of your life, but I always checked my expectations on that—something can always go wrong, right? But it went off perfectly and felt as incredible as we had always dreamed. A big part of that was the team of amazing vendors our planner put together. None of it would have been possible without them.
Wishing you both incredible happiness and a smooth wedding day full of bliss that you can look back on for years to come :)
I believe there is a Ferangi rule of acquisition for this
I think, it goes something like, Peace us good for business, and war is also good for business.
those are two separate but adjacent rules :)
34 & 35 I seem to recall.
Also water (in a movie theater)
I thought it was Airport Pricing, but I guess Wedding checks out too
You guys pay that much for bottled water?
waterplastic+ table service fee
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