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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fine.[b] It’s once per person per lifetime. [/b]I only have two kids by choice and I will spend on their weddings with pleasure.[/quote]

A wedding is a once in a lifetime experience, or an [b]expensive [/b]wedding is a once in a lifetime experience.  My brothers first wedding was the fanciest wedding I'd ever been to.  Eight years later I attended his second wedding.  It made the first wedding look like rice and beans.

I'm all for spending whatever you want on whatever you want, but the "once in a lifetime" justification makes zero sense.  There are so many things that only happen once in a person's life.  First day of first grade.  First day of college.  First day of a first job.  Lots of first.  You know what you can benefit from every.single.day?  Graduating from school debt free.  A down payment for a condo/house.  It doesn't make a great Hallmark card but get yourself in financial order first, then throw the fancy party for your friends.  [/quote]

Yep all of this!  I will give my kids a lump of money and they can decide what to do with it (all girls).  I will guide them to put it as a down payment on a house, but ultimately it's their choice.[/quote]

I never understood the logic to this.   Here’s some money for your wedding but use it for a down payment on a house.   A lot of people are starting to do this.

We have traditional families and my father paid for the wedding and his father paid for the dinner the night before and honeymoon.   My father paid the restaurant and the bridal salon directly.   His father paid the restaurant directly. We picked really nice restaurants and music.  Besides that nothing lavish at all.  But it had nothing to do with a house.  That came much later.  We were 24 years old and didn’t want to buy a house that would tie us down.

I’m glad my father did everything because I never would have thought to invite the priest or make sure the musicians ate.

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