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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given that they've already put down 50 percent of the venue cost, perhaps they can plan a smaller, less expensive wedding at the same location.  But first, your sister needs to banish all thoughts of borrowing money to pay for this wedding and only offer to pay what the family can legitimately afford.  And your niece needs to grow up and accept that while it's totally understandable that she's disappointed, throwing tantrums is not the way to handle it.  This is not going to be the last disappointment she faces as an adult.  She needs to sit down with her parents and figure out what they can actually contribute, and figure out how to plan a wedding that's actually within her budget.  Her fiance sounds pretty mature about this; if I were him, I would be thinking long and hard about whether I wanted to marry someone so immature.  [/quote]

So the latest seems to be that they are keeping the location but trimming the guest list down but will also hold an additional reception later on at my sister's home for friends/family they couldn't invite.  I think this is a silly idea but I said "ok sounds like a plan" to avoid being sucked in. My BIL actually got the B&B owner to let them out of using their approved vendor for catering and is letting them use a family friend to help reduce costs.

My niece has one more semester of college but she is stretching it out to a year.  Her degree is something like Liberal Arts with a concentration in writing??  Last night she triumphantly told me that she has decided on a career path for sure - she wants to go into personal financial wealth management. I swear it took everything in me not to crack up laughing. My DH had to leave the room! I asked her what got her interested in that and she said a friend who had graduated already and gotten into a training program for this and was telling her about how well she is doing and all the money she is making.  On one hand I think - ugh terrible she will lose money for her clients and the other hand I think good, maybe she will learn to manage money better than her parents. [/quote]

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