Rant alert - wedding snob

mayfair1985

:rotfl:

A. Maze. Ing!

TBH I'm so fed up of people telling me how much they are spending and expecting me to reciprocate, Each to their own but for me and OH 40K would certainly go on a house. Not a day.

GOOD GIRL!

thistledome

If anybody on here is "down" on getting into debt for a wedding, it's not because of snobbery. It's just common sense - this is a money saving site.

Idiophreak

thistledome wrote: »

If anybody on here is "down" on getting into debt for a wedding, it's not because of snobbery. It's just common sense - this is a money saving site.

Yes, you see, people who say those who take loans for weddings have "no common sense"....I'd class that as snobbery. Thanks for providing a perfect example of what I'm talking about, though.

Personally, I'm taking a loan and I consider myself perfectly common-sensed up. Both of us earn decent wages, we've relatively low monthly outgoings and can afford to service our loan comfortably whilst still saving for the wedding. We could have got married a year later and done without the loan, but frankly we just didn't want to - our relatives (and indeed the pair of us) aren't getting younger and every day that passes is a day on which I could die not being married to my OH - and I'm not keen on that.

Also, a central reason we took our loan at all *was* to save money - as we could pay for the reception last year and thus get last years' rates and the lower VAT. That, coupled with easing our cash flow for a couple of years, makes the loan really quite good value.

But then, what do I know, I've no common sense, not like the oracle that is thistledome...

donnap83

Idiophreak wrote: »

Yes, you see, people who say those who take loans for weddings have "no common sense"....I'd class that as snobbery. Thanks for providing a perfect example of what I'm talking about, though.

Personally, I'm taking a loan and I consider myself perfectly common-sensed up. Both of us earn decent wages, we've relatively low monthly outgoings and can afford to service our loan comfortably whilst still saving for the wedding. We could have got married a year later and done without the loan, but frankly we just didn't want to - our relatives (and indeed the pair of us) aren't getting younger and every day that passes is a day on which I could die not being married to my OH - and I'm not keen on that.

Also, a central reason we took our loan at all *was* to save money - as we could pay for the reception last year and thus get last years' rates and the lower VAT. That, coupled with easing our cash flow for a couple of years, makes the loan really quite good value.

But then, what do I know, I've no common sense, not like the oracle that is thistledome...

What a lovely sentiment! I've done the same to enable me and my fiance to marry next year.

Good luck to you both, and ignore those on here that want to bog you down with debt doom and gloom!!!

codemonkey

Idiophreak wrote: »

Yes, you see, people who say those who take loans for weddings have "no common sense"....I'd class that as snobbery. Thanks for providing a perfect example of what I'm talking about, though.

Personally, I'm taking a loan and I consider myself perfectly common-sensed up. Both of us earn decent wages, we've relatively low monthly outgoings and can afford to service our loan comfortably whilst still saving for the wedding. We could have got married a year later and done without the loan, but frankly we just didn't want to - our relatives (and indeed the pair of us) aren't getting younger and every day that passes is a day on which I could die not being married to my OH - and I'm not keen on that.

Also, a central reason we took our loan at all *was* to save money - as we could pay for the reception last year and thus get last years' rates and the lower VAT. That, coupled with easing our cash flow for a couple of years, makes the loan really quite good value.

But then, what do I know, I've no common sense, not like the oracle that is thistledome...

You seem to have a bit of a drum to beat Idio. It's your wedding done your way. You're not sitting next to someone in the gym going on about your wedding and looking down your nose about someone elses more frugal plan..

We looked into it for ours while researching budgets and so on for ours but decided that we could just about save enough this year. My job isn't as secure as it once was, so I was worried about repayments if I didn't find work again immediately.

You know your financial situation and whether it can take it, so if it can and that's what you want to do, fair enough.

Is it wrong that I think the cave wedding arriving on a cow would be quite cool?

White_Sapphire

Back to the original post - ellay, you are my hero. Everything you said to that utter byatch would have occured to me about four hours later! Thank you for sticking up for us all

x

ellay864

codemonkey wrote: »

Is it wrong that I think the cave wedding arriving on a cow would be quite cool?

>>>>heads off to ring the zoo and ask if they have a spare bison going for my grand entrance

sammy_wheeler

ellay you have made my day- brilliant and well done!!! made me laugh out loud wen i read that!

PootleFlump_3

Hilarious post. Well done Ellay for putting her in her place. I find it amusing how people conjur up stereotypes of those who are keen to pay less for things if they can (although I do have to say I dont agree with the posts about how weddings where the drinks are free are high budget - surely everyones perception of whats high and whats not differ depending on individual circumstances)

Dave101t

but...were you looking at a zoo venue? if so all she said was technically correct?