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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weddings are indeed out of control. I have an etiquette/hostessing book from the 50s geared towards rich housewives (for example, it is assumed that the reader has servants) and the wedding chapter features weddings that are shockingly cheap and simple by today's standards. You have everyone to your home after the church ceremony and serve chicken salad over lettuce leaves, fruit salad, Melba toast with curry spread, champagne, wedding cake and then coffee. Hire live musicians. The idea![/quote]

My parents' wedding was at 2 pm with a punch and cake reception at the country club afterwards.

But when I got married, my mother insisted, [b]"You can't ask people to travel all this way and not give them dinner."[/b] My home town isn't huge, but it's bigger and more accessible than my mom's. Maybe things just ramp up over the decades. Maybe 30 years from now, our kids will be saying, "We only had one band, and they stopped playing at midnight."[/quote]

While I agree that weddings have gotten completely ridiculous, she’s right. I’ll bet nearly no one was traveling out of town to attend your parents wedding. If you’re all local, a cake and punch reception is quite fine.

But today, modern wedding have tons of people traveling in from, often times, several different states.  And the costs are a pain. Ten years ago, it cost me $3,500 to bring my family of 4 to my cousins wedding in a rural area. I was happy to do it, but there are definitely other things our young family could have done with that money at the time. You can’t have people shelling out big bucks for your special day and then not feed them. 
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