At a minimum, it’s conspiring to violate federal election laws though, right?

The fact that no Republicans care about this, and refuse to denounce it, let alone sign on for criminal prosecution or impeachment proceedings, makes me very uneasy. The way Cheetolini’s lawyers and little Benedict Donald’s lawyers continue to sign off on these stories that continually go from bad to worse, whilst…

I mean, I think it’s incredibly stupid to pay $600 for an iPhone, but I still don’t think it would be okay for Apple to take orders and then not fulfill them.

Fuck the institution of marriage. If you bought anything from any store for any reason and the store just up and closed and didn’t give you the product you paid for, you would be upset too. The fact that these are wedding dresses which can cost a lot in time and money, is just icing on the overpriced fucked up cake.

They’re way more than a few hundred bucks, but even if they were a few hundred bucks, that’s a lot of money for some people and they can’t just come up with it again to replace what’s been lost. Not to mention rush orders cost even more.

Alfred Angelo is the land of the $800 wedding dress, which is pretty much the median price for a “budget” dress these days. But here’s the thing: For brides on a budget, yes, this is a hardship. Not every wedding is about an open wallet.

I don’t either but they still shouldn’t have been ripped off.

I didn’t get to have that party and you know what? I am really sorry we didn’t. I wish our families had come to wish us well and show their love for us. I wish I had professional pictures of us with our parents and grandparents, especially since our grandparents have since passed and my mom and his dad now have cancer…

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…

Even if it is just a big party, all the attention is on the bride, and the photos will be there forever. Not to mention women are conditioned and groomed from birth to want it.

The money is a big deal but not having a dress is worse. There simply aren’t that many long,white dresses that will fit so perfectly you want to be pictured wearing them for, hopefully, the rest of your life.

And tons of men buy $300 jerseys without blinking an eye. A dress that is made to order and probably has a ton of lace, sequins, pearls, etc. sewn on it is going to cost more than a t-shirt. Surprise!

So only women buy 1000+ pieces of clothing?, sounds pretty misogynistic to me

They are paying for the experience THEY want.

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…

It’s not just the cost of the dress - it’s also the fact that they are almost always made-to-measure (you pick out the dress you like which is then altered to fit your measurements exactly) or heavily altered both for fit and for taste (you can often get the peripherals of the dress like sleeves, sashes, and other…

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…

I mean...I’m very anti-weddings myself, and find lavish, expensive weddings terribly passé...but even I can empathize with the stress and disappointment of paying hundreds of dollars for something and getting the shaft.