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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I LOVE kid-free events, and I'm from the NYC area where almost all weddings are kid-free affairs with lots of food and have an open bar.  However, for us, it comes down to expense.

Additionally, over the years, I have spent thousands attending out of state weddings that didn't work out.  So, therefore I no longer view a wedding as something I want to spend a bunch of money on, especially when the couple gets divorced within five years.  If it is a local wedding for a close friend, sure.  If it is an out of town wedding for a close friend, we usually "send a delegate".  I'm not hiring a weekend sitter to go to a wedding.

For what it is worth, I never understood the whole "just make a weekend out of it!" argument.  I don't want to spend my vacation time and money, both of which are finite resources, attending a wedding.  If I'm going to invest the time and money to enjoy a weekend away with my spouse, we are going to do exactly what we want to do.  But all that is kind of a hypothetical anyway, as we no longer have someone to watch our kids for a weekend (grandparents in ill health).[/quote]

So your experience at a wedding would be later dampened by the fact that the couple got divorced five years later?  Are you serious?  One of the best weddings I ever went to was in Italy.  The entire two week trip was paid for, we stayed in a beautiful villa and a hotel in Rome and traveled all over Tuscany and Umbria.  The couple later got divorced, but that in no way colors the time I spent in Italy.  [/quote]

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