Booked the wedding day today 12th September 2015 and I will be married

The amount a wedding costs these days could be put to much better use. Like a deposit on house.

If it is just the actual legality of being married, then you can do that pretty cheap if you want to. I guess it depends on which part is more important; the being married or having a wedding to show of to as many people as possible.

Oh yeah, I know. If I ever need to for legal reasons, I'm just heading down the registry office to pick up my sheet of paper. No fuss, no major expense.

No disrespect to Belty but given your comments in the cheating thread maybe your not ready yet someday you might be or maybe you never will each to there own.

I was only kidding, if you want to get married thats great. As for me, I've been with the same woman 15 years, 3 kids, good as married without the cost and the piece of paper so I'm happy as I am. Nothing to do with being ready or not for me, if she said she wanted to get married I'd do it just to make her happy but I'd never suggest it myself, just dont see the need for it personally. But whatever makes people happy is the main thing. Good for you, I hope you have a great day.

 

As for cost etc, the main thing about the cost I hate is having to pay for all your asshole family members you dont like to have a nice meal and free drink. If I was going to get married, I'd bugger off on holiday somewhere, que up for the marriage on the beach thing, pay a few quid, quick and easy on the beach in the sun with the kids then a swim in the sea. Bargain!

Wheeeyyyyy good ol' boy! Wish you all the best :)

I don't like the bind marriage puts you in legally if the relationship ends, it can be (and usually is) vastly one-sided, and that's almost always in favor of the woman, in every single way, to the point where it's ridiculously stupid.

 

If it's for legal reasons, most of those can be cured by a will and a living will.

I don't like the bind marriage puts you in legally if the relationship ends, it can be (and usually is) vastly one-sided, and that's almost always in favor of the woman, in every single way, to the point where it's ridiculously stupid.

 

That's changing dramatically, and isn't entirely true anyway. It favours whoever makes the least money, and heavily favours any stay-at-home parents, it's just that that's usually the woman.

When I got married we just went to the courthouse with maybe three friends and my wife's mom then we went out to eat at the Cracker Barrel. It was my wife's idea. She didn't want a crazy big wedding. I asked her for weeks if she was sure. At one point we almost just went to Vegas. We were gonna go to one of those little fast food type marriage places and spend the rest of the weekend gambling.

 

She was very unconventional though.

We got married in a manor house with an evening reception, buffet food, the dress, suits and pretty much everything for 5K, 5K can get you quite a lot if you are realistic. That said we paid nearly that much again for 12 night in the Maldives as the honeymoon so swings and roundabouts! I wouldn;t not be married now but I wasn't massively fussed about it before it kind of dawned on me that I wanted to.

I'm probably the same as Megs. Being married sounds kinda nice I guess, mostly just because "wife" sounds a bit better better than "girlfriend" when you're older than 40, but I'm not really fussed. If I was with a girl I liked that much, it would be entirely up to her, I think I'd be just as happy either way. Having kids would be the only thing to nudge me either way, I might be slightly put off by the idea of my kid's parents not being married, but I guess that's becoming so common now that it'll be irrelevant by the time I have kids.

 

If I did get married though, I would probably go all out with the wedding. I like a flash party.

 

Pre-nups out my f*cking dick too though.

If you need pre-nups you either dont love or dont trust the woman you're going to marry, so dont marry her!

 

Bitches cant be trusted!

 

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I'd get a pre-nup just because, if anyone f*cks up, if anything changes, even if it's me, it saves the fight. I've seen people being destroyed by divorce, emotionally and a financially, kids getting torn around in the middle, lawyers teaching people to hate each other for money. It just seems so silly not to have one. I don't think it's got anything to do with love or trust, it's just about being careful. If you never need it, good, if you ever need it, it's there.

Yeah, people throw themselves off bridges and kill people and shit from bad divorces. It's better to plan ahead. If I were ever to get married again, I'd totally get a pre nup.

I'll avoid joining into any should/shouldn't debates about marriage at this time, and just say congrats Jay. Good luck!

You dumb fools and your pre-nups, just dont get married!

Congrats, Jay! When I married my wife, the wedding and reception cost about $8,000 (~4500 euro or ~3600 pounds) for 150 guests. We had everything we wanted though. You would really have to be extravagant to exceed that I think. The quickest way to increase the price of a wedding is to add more guests. It is your day (read: your future wife's day). If you don't want someone to be there, don't invite them. That way you avoid the headache of dealing with them and save the cost.

 

We received about $3000 (~2250 euro or ~1800 pounds) for wedding presents, so we just used that for our honeymoon.

 

I can honestly say that it was the best day of my life. Even better that our parents paid for the wedding and our guests paid for the honeymoon. I was no worse off by the time it was all said and done.

 

If I could go back and with the knowledge I have now, I would not change a thing. Not to get all sappy here, but she is truly my best friend and after 2 short years of marriage I don't know how I would get by without her. I wish the same and more for you and your future wife.

Edited August 13, 201410 yr by Will O the Wisp