He said that sounded like a great idea - and then he asked THE question - "Will they be cheap?" Before I could stop myself, I asked his "Is the bride going to WalMart for her dress?" When he said no, then I told him that getting a cheap cake would be like getting a cheap dress! He laughed and told me that he would have to re-think some things! Good Boy!
Speaking of Walmart and weddings...www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=9511
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He said that sounded like a great idea - and then he asked THE question - "Will they be cheap?" Before I could stop myself, I asked his "Is the bride going to WalMart for her dress?" When he said no, then I told him that getting a cheap cake would be like getting a cheap dress! He laughed and told me that he would have to re-think some things! Good Boy!
Speaking of Walmart and weddings...www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=9511
Edited to try and make the link work so you don't have to cut & paste.
Now I can die, 'cause I think I've seen it all...
There's another wedding somewhere on peopleofwalmart.com, but I don't want to wade through hundreds of scary photos of men wearing short shorts to find them.
I've written about this before. About 25 years ago my cousin got married and he and his wife didn't have much money so they got married on his parents farm, complete with tissue flower flowers lining the pasture fence. There were about 150 people there because, you see, they were not "well off" but they were "well loved" (the TRUE value). They had a fried chicken and potato salad dinner outside on picnic tables. They were (and still are) so happy.
Everything was simple and "cheap". They wrote their own vows and it was so touching not a dry eye. They let each person know how thankful they were they came and it was "fun"for the kids and the old folks. I can say still today it was the best wedding I have ever been to. It wasn't "elegant" in material things but it was far superior to all materialistic weddings I have been to. You know, buy a present, sit in the church, throw some rice, eat less than delish food, all the while the band plays and the men don't dance or don't until they get drunk. I am certain if they had had more money they would have done/had more at their wedding. I get the feeling sometimes here that "less than top of the line" weddings here are a joke and something to be laughed at, but everyone deserves respect for what they have.
Ha, my brother (high end) met his wife at a "high end wedding" where the bride and groom and her family flew folks in from UK, Scotland, Papa New Guinea, Tahiti, etc...5 years later the bride's father said the best thing to come out of his daughters wedding was my brother meeting his wife because his daughter has sinced divorced and remarried (with a much smaller event) and is now happy and having a baby....
My point is everyone is different and each person's way is OK. Just because someone doesn't have the money or doesn't want to spend much money on a cake, flowers etc. doesn't mean they are any lower class.
I'd never spend the kind of money that some get for their cakes on here, but I'll spend 1000.00 to buy an antique dress form that does nothing but stand there and 500.00 on a blender (Blendtec commercial) I use 5 times a year.... It's all relative to each. Some prefer the cake.
I hope no one thought I was implying that shopping at WalMart was in any way throwing off or bad-mouthing the young man and his future wife or anyone who shops there.I shop there for many things, but not everything. I happen to know these people and they are certainly classy people. The venue where the wedding and the reception are being held are top of the line spots. That's why I made that remark to him. He wasn 't offended as he knows that I lack that "filter" on my mouth that the OP was talking about.
The fact that I lack that filter is one of the reasons that I do not post on here often. Most of the members of this site do not know me and my weird sense of humor, so I just keep my mouth shut and my fingers off my keyboard.
By the way, my husband and I simply went the our pastor's home and were married in his living room in front of my parents and a few close friends. No flowers, no cake. And 45 years later we are still married! You can't get any simplier than that.
I didn't take you saying that. I think the point everyone is trying to make is, you buy what you can afford, period. I wouldn't go to Lexus hoping that they give me a Lexus for a Kia price.
Last week same scenario cheap and huge wedding. She wanted me to make her a faux wedding cake and sheet cake to compensate. Oh, and she wanted me to somehow cut the styrofoam and slip some cake in the faux cake so they could cut it in front of the guest. !
OMG, I haven't heard that one before! That is too much! What a fake!
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