Speak for yourself. Being out a couple of hundred dollars and a dress for an event? Its a nightmare.

All of the things you listed are ALSO a waste of money to a lot of people. It’s almost like different people value different things and can spend their own money however the fuck they want

I was circling the bait at “raw silk”, hooked and on the line at “pockets”.

Sadly a lot of weddings must be magical and the cost of temporarily harnessing can be very high. My wifes dress was 800 but she got it on sale for some amount I cant recall but even then. I know the work and such on these things can be ridiculous and the price of 10k + easy makes it insane.

Back and front!

Too doxy. But it was a corset with a raw silk skirt. Her favorite part was the pockets!

You can have that opinion but wedding dresses are not ready-to-wear things. They have detailing like beading and lace that is done by hand and the people who do that should be paid accordingly. Alterations even on the simplest dress also need to be done and that person should also be compensated well for a job that…

I got married last year and I can’t imagine how much I would be losing my shit.

I administer several mail servers, and blacklist any domain that sends mail in violation of canspam, and reporting So hopefully it’s making it better for everyone. It’s shocking how many people use the work email for personal stuff.

Do you also judge everyone who eats in nice restaurants? You can only eat that meal once and afterwards you don’t even have an item you can turn into something else like a christening gown or a quilt.

Reading your comments, I’m literally sure that’s true.

While I wouldn’t spend that kind of money on a dress, it’s really immaterial. A wedding is an experience just as many other things are experiences which you’d likely find valuable. Would you gasp that someone would spend hundreds or thousands on a hot air balloon ride AND pay for the overpriced champagne? What about…

This. If you paid for something, it should be given to you. The perceived value to an outside party doesn’t matter.

As someone who spent a relatively conservative amount on an upscale but reusable non-white-wedding dress and opted for a very small wedding so as to afford a honeymoon abroad: people are allowed to do what they want. We preferred to spend our money on seeing four thousand year old buildings, but other people would…

They are paying for the experience THEY want.

Right. If they were taking orders for iPads and not delivering then no one would question it. But it’s something that is important to women, so it’s stupid and everyone has to chime in to decide what these women’s priorities should be.

How expensive can some of these dresses be? If you’re out a few hundred bucks and some time, that sucks but it’s not a disaster.

Right? Whether the specific instance is something you approve of or not, if you can’t empathize with someone paying money for a good or service and then receiving no goods and no services and having their money literally disappear with no accountability and through no fault of their own, then you’ve got bigger…

They got fucked over and that’s never ok no matter how much money you’re spending on something deemed frivolous by people whose opinions don’t matter.

They choose to spend their money however they want. I lost a shit ton of money and the whole saga was on Gawker. I was subjected (I was quoted from a news source) to a lot of people telling me how stupid I was and how they would have spent that money. It didn’t make me feel better and in fact, made me feel actively…