He’s living in a rented house in my neighborhood. Believe me, he’s not running up any expenses unnecessarily...

Hey Congress: how about some consumer protection laws that invalidate all or part of these predatory loans when these scams are uncovered?! What's that? Too busy not doing anything else. Got it.

Came here to say this. My wedding next year will cost a bit less than that, and, while we didn’t go completely bare bones, we definitely cut back on a ton once we realized how many guests would be at the wedding. Which is far and away the biggest determining factor of cost.

Some of that seems excessive sure, but they seem to be really going after the $50 K for a wedding thing. In reality, tons of people with WAY less income spend more than that for a wedding. I assume the dry cleaning costs in that same month at least were partially due to the wedding as well.