The Crazy, Backed-Up Wedding Industry

The Crazy, Backed-Up Wedding Industry

(Link): The Crazy, Backed-Up Wedding Industry

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by Erica Pandey
August 2021

After a long, pandemic-induced wedding drought, the industry is busier than it has been in decades — and venues, vendors and planners are feeling the squeeze.

Staggering stat: There will be an estimated 2.5 million weddings in 2022, which is the most the U.S. has seen since 1984, according to The Wedding Report, a market research firm.

Parents Want To “Collect” Off Of Their Child’s Wedding – She Says No And Family Drama Ensues

Parents Want To “Collect” Off Of Their Child’s Wedding – She Says No And Family Drama Ensues

(Link): Parents Want To “Collect” Off Of Their Child’s Wedding – She Says No And Family Drama Ensues

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by Jonas Grinevičius and Austėja Akavickaitė

…A redditor shared how their parents were planning to use their wedding as a way to make bank.

See, they were planning to force their child to invite all of their distant relations and acquaintances so that everybody brings money as a gift.

That, in their parents’ opinion, is their way of getting back all the cash that they gave out at other people’s weddings, graduation parties, and other important events.

Naturally, the redditor confronted their parents when they realized that they have zero control over their own wedding.

Pregnant Bride, 30, Dies From Stroke Minutes From Altar Before Doctors Save Baby With Emergency C-Section

Pregnant Bride, 30, Dies From Stroke Minutes From Altar Before Doctors Save Baby With Emergency C-Section

Getting married won’t necessarily make you happier or bring happiness. I have several other examples on this blog going back years of people who died either ON their wedding day or shortly after getting married.

(Link): Pregnant Bride, 30, Dies From Stroke Minutes From Altar Before Doctors Save Baby With Emergency C-Section

Sept 19, 2019
by Janet Tappin Coelho

A PREGNANT bride died from a stroke minutes before arriving at the altar, leaving her groom a single father when doctors managed to save their baby’s life.

BRIDEZILLA CENTRAL – Facebook Wedding Shaming groups are the nasty new trend taking over social media

BRIDEZILLA CENTRAL – Facebook Wedding Shaming groups are the nasty new trend taking over social media

(Link): BRIDEZILLA CENTRAL Facebook Wedding Shaming groups are the nasty new trend taking over social media

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This real-life Mean Girl gang have over 38,000 members who all take pleasure in deliberately slamming strangers’ weddings

WHILE most of us use Facebook to gloat about our fancy vaycays and watch videos of cute puppies, the social media platform has recently become host to one of the harshest pastimes around — wedding shaming.

Groups of people huddle together in private digital dungeons to blast, roast and tear apart other people’s special days in the name of fun — and it’s absolutely brutal.

You can critique dresses, decorations and of course, dramatic brides who are kindly dubbed “bridezillas”.

Bride Kicks Couple out of her Kid-Free Wedding for Bringing Their Children but People are Defending Her

Bride Kicks Couple out of her Kid-Free Wedding for Bringing Their Children but People are Defending Her

(Links): Bride Kicks Couple out of her Kid-Free Wedding for Bringing Their Children but People are Defending Her

Dec 2018

A bride on Reddit detailed how she asked a couple at her wedding to leave after they brought their infant and toddler

She had explicitly stated on the wedding invitation that the event was kid-free

Other kids at the ceremony, like the flower girl, were picked up before the reception

Bride’s Wedding Shoot Becomes Tribute to Her Late Fiance After A Tragic Accident

Bride’s Wedding Shoot Becomes Tribute to Her Late Fiance After A Tragic Accident

Yep. Even if you do manage to get engaged (I was engaged once) or get married, this doesn’t mean it’s going to last a life time.

I have several examples on my blog (see bottom of this blog post under “Related Posts” section) of married people where one (or both!) get killed on their wedding day or shortly there-after, from being in car accidents to getting diseases. In some cases, one of the couple will die shortly before the wedding date.

(Link): Bride’s Wedding Shoot Becomes Tribute to Her Late Fiance After A Tragic Accident

By TRINITY JOSEPH
Oct 10, 2018, 12:04 PM ET

….The only person missing from the long-planned ceremony was her groom, the love of her life, who had been killed by an alleged drunk driver last fall.

The wedding date had been set, the small town church with the white cross picked as the venue, and a fitted white wedding dress chosen during a rite-of-passage shopping trip with Padgett’s mother, grandmother, sister and her soon-to-be mother-in-law.

Self-Absorbed Man Hi-Jacks Wedding Ceremony

Self-Absorbed Man Hi-Jacks Wedding Ceremony

There goes the stereotypical evangelical Christian propaganda that the reason you’re still single past the age of 30 is because you’re still too (insert one or more: selfish, immoral, irresponsible, immature, ugly) to get a spouse, and God won’t send you one ’til you get your stuff together.

Forget that. The idiot in this following story was proposing marriage to someone…

(Link): Self-Absorbed Man Hi-Jacks Wedding Ceremony

The Internet is (Link): straight-up livid about this egregious wedding etiquette offense, and you will be too.

A recent bride wrote in to (Link): Slate’s advice columnist Dear Prudence (a.k.a. Mallory Ortberg) about “John” ― her huband’s best friend, best man, and wedding officiant ― who had the audacity to propose to his longtime girlfriend and announce their pregnancy DURING the ceremony.

On top of that, “John” ― not his real name ― found other ways to make the rest of the day about him and his fiancée “Jane.” The bride explained:

Vietnam man, 44, stabs a wedding guest to death after he was booed off stage during a tragic karaoke performance

Vietnam man, 44, stabs a wedding guest to death after he was booed off stage during a tragic karaoke performance

I guess they take their karaoke real serious over there.

(Link):  Vietnam man, 44, stabs a wedding guest to death after he was booed off stage during a tragic karaoke performance

May 25, 2017

• Nguyen Ngoc Diep, 44, was singing at wedding in southern Vietnam on Thursday
• He was furious when a guest mocked his singing and stole his microphone
• Diep began brawling with the guest, who ended up seriously injured in hospital
• Attacker then stabbed another guest Le Hong An, 35, when he tried to stop him 
• Diep has been arrested since going on the horrific rampage, local media said

A man at a wedding in Vietnam stabbed a fellow guest to death and seriously injured another after he was booed off stage during a karaoke performance.

Ex-Actor Sentenced to Death After Being Found Guilty of Killing Two People to Raise Money for his Wedding

Ex-Actor Sentenced to Death After Being Found Guilty of Killing Two People to Raise Money for his Wedding

Pretty extreme – killing people to finance your own wedding.

(Link): Ex-Actor Sentenced to Death After Being Found Gilty of Killing Two People to Raise Money for his Wedding

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BY BLAKE BAKKILA

(Link): Daniel Wozniak has been sentenced to death for the murders of his neighbor and his neighbor’s friend, according to a press release from the Orange County district attorney’s office.

The California theater actor, 31, killed his neighbor, 26-year-old Army veteran Sam Herr, and Herr’s friend Juri “Julie” Kibuishi in 2010 as part of a ploy to clean out Herr’s $62,000 savings so he could pay for his (Link): upcoming wedding to his actress fiancée Rachel Buffett.

On Friday, Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley ruled against Wozniak’s public defender Scott Sanders’ motion for a new trial and against another motion to dismiss the death penalty, according to the (Link): Los Angeles Times

Groom ‘Sues New Wife For Fraud’ After Seeing Her Without Make Up For First Time

Groom ‘Sues New Wife For Fraud’ After Seeing Her Without Make Up For First Time

Idiot.

(Link): Groom ‘Sues New Wife For Fraud’ After Seeing Her Without Make Up For First Time

• A man who saw his new wife for the first time without make up is reportedly SUING her for trauma, after being shocked at her appearance.
• The unnamed couple had just got married in Algeria and after spending the night together, the husband woke up to find his wife bare faced.
• But rather than admire her natural beauty, instead the man REFUSED to believe the woman was his wife, believing her to be a thief.
• Finally realising that this was in fact the woman he loved, the man is now allegedly suing her for fraud and “psychological suffering”.
• A source told Emirates 247: “He said he was deceived by her as she used to fill up her face with make up before their marriage.
• “He said she looked very beautiful and attractive before marriage, but when he woke up in the morning and found that she had washed the make-up off her face, he was frightened as he thought she was a thief.”
• The price of the husband’s “suffering” is £13,000.

Wedding Planner Turns Out to Be Con Artist, Rips Off Couples

This is another one of those times I feel glad I’ve never married.

(Link):  Wedding planner steals marriage dreams from clients to blow on gambling addiction

• I Plan New York’s Lisa Harrison crushed the dreams of fairytale weddings when she used her trusting clients money to feed her voracious online gambling addiction.
• Three women Friday told how their dreams of fairytale weddings in New York were left in tatters by a cruel British conwoman.
• Grasping Lisa Harrison set herself up as a wedding planner specializing in ceremonies in the Big Apple — but stole more than $125,000 from clients.
• The 34 year-old blew all the money on her online gambling addiction and left 19 couples heartbroken.
• Harrison, who ran iPlan New York from her home in Earith, Cambs., UK, was jailed this week for two years after admitting fraudulent trading.
• Peterborough Crown Court heard how she stole the money in the space of a few months in the summer of 2013, luring her victims with good exchange rates and flight upgrades.
• They described her as “charismatic” and “convincing” and said she had betrayed their trust by shattering their dreams.
• Toni Bacura and boyfriend Scott Mckillop, both 25, of Livingstone, Scotland paid $9,000 to Harrison for a romantic wedding ceremony in Central Park.
• Toni, a medical lab scientist, said: “She said the good exchange rates were the perk of being a tourism company.
• “But we never seemed to get anything back and none of the transactions seemed to come to fruition.
• “Even when that was happening we didn’t doubt her.”
• She added: “Something went very wrong for her, but she dragged us all in too, it’s heartbreaking.”

People Who Complain Constantly About Their Spouses or Significant Others / Also: Self Absorbed Friends Who Talk Constantly About Themselves But Never Take An Interest in YOU

Yes, I can relate to this situation (see Ask Amy letter farther below), and one very closely related.

I was usually not in romantic relationships, didn’t get my first boyfriend til my late 20s, and even after I broke up with him, I still got an earful from female friends and family constantly about what a jerk their current husband is, or what a slime their ex was, I had friends gripe about boyfriends or long time live-in lovers.

Also had a friend in my college days who got married in a civil ceremony the year previous but who never shut up about the church ceremony she had planned in the fall of that year.

I had to listen to months of her babbling endlessly about her wedding plans, and I am not one of those women who enjoys hearing wedding minutia, and she would bore me for months (literally, this was weekly for four months) about how the flowers in the church were going to match her bridal veil and whatever.

The first two, three weeks of Wedding Talk did not bother me, but we are talking FOUR MONTHS STRAIGHT, and she NEVER asked me ABOUT ME.

My polite, vague hints to her that she was beating that topic to death fell on deaf ears, too.

Many women are totally self-absorbed (some men I’ve met as well) and never shut up about themselves, their job, how great – or how terrible – their marriage or dating relationship is.

I’ve usually been the quiet one in friendships and other relationships, I have been the listener.

And since most people are self absorbed twits, I’ve had to suffer in silence for hours, days or weeks, listening to these people complain non stop about what a jerk their husband (or boss or brother or whomever) is, and they never ask me about me, how I am doing.

Further, if I attempt to discuss myself, or a problem I’m having, they act bored by it, or open their mouth to make the conversation about them again the second I pause to take a breath. My ex fiance was like that, too. And he talked about himself constantly.

At this stage in my life, I am totally fed up with relationships like this.

I used to be super nice about it, but no more.

Now I am apt to tell someone that the friendship is lop-sided, they never take an interest in me, I’m tired of listening to them gripe constantly (or crow happily about their upcoming wedding plans) and I’m tired of it.

So I totally related to this letter-

Letter to Ask Amy:

• DEAR AMY:
• I can relate to “Frustrated” having to listen to her friend’s marital troubles, day after day.
• I had the same situation with a dear friend.
• I finally said to her, “Wendy, I don’t want to hear another word about it until you decide to do something (divorce).”
• She stopped complaining and got a divorce.
• — Finally Free
• DEAR FINALLY:
• Having a daily outlet for complaints can prevent people from doing what they need to do.

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Related Posts:

(Link):  I Was A Potted Plant. Woman Writes To Ask Amy: Husband’s Incessant Monologue – Reminds Me Of My Ex Fiance

(Link):   People Really Hack Me Off (Part 2) The Clueless Christian Who Likes To Send You Upbeat Updates About Himself In Reply To Your Announcement of Your Mother’s Death (ex friend of mine)

(Link):  People Really Hack Me Off  (Part 1) The Hypocritical, Constantly Angry, Christian Ingrate (ex friend of mine)

(Link): When Your Secrets Are Used Against You (Hax Advice Column) – sounds like one of my family members