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Three days before she got married, Monika didn’t know what she was going to wear, what her makeup would look like, or how she was going to do her hair.
To Monika, getting married was really “just signing some paperwork.”
On her big day, Monika sat outside a room waiting to be called in. Her husband to be, Duane wiped his sweaty palms on her dress before they walked into a tangerine coloured room, with gaudy blinds covering the windows.
Last night, on ABC’s Hatch, Match and Dispatch, Monika and Duane got married.
In front of a couple of friends, they promised to support one another, in household full of laughter, love and an endless supply of tomato sauce.
And everyone cried. Including me (I ugly cried the shit out of it.)
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My wedding cost me over $100K and it was a massive waste of money. I was so tired and stressed by the end of it, I couldn't even enjoy it. It was in fact my dream wedding but my celebrant was 1 hour late and the lead singer of the band was sick. So no amount of money spent could have avoided those things. Should have just paid off my mortgage.
To the author and most of the other posters, I can only say "stick to your guns".
I never wanted a big wedding, but was pressured by family to having something bigger than I wanted.
It was not an enjoyable day for me. It felt like a waste of money at the time. Twenty-one happily married years later it still feels like a waste of money to say nothing of the time and stress it cost me.
Nobody told me they enjoyed the wedding (and at least one person told me they didn't and others just looked completely miserable) so I cannot pretend that I did it for others and they enjoyed it.
As my husband says: please yourself and at least one person will be happy.