Hassan Ahmed, 23, is charging his guests $450 for a ticket to his wedding next year in Houston, where he lives. Mr. Ahmed said he hadn’t heard back from many of his 125 wedding guests. But he has already spent over $100,000 on the wedding, including deposits for the venue, the D.J. and the photographer. In a video on TikTok, he said he was confused by the response, noting that many of his guests had spent more money on Beyoncé or Chris Brown tickets.
First of all, fuck that. Second of all this is a bad example for The Times (told you) to use, as it's fairly obvious this guy comes from serious money and it they even wanted to broach some "would you pay for a wedding?" thing at least make it about people who aren't using their wedding registry to choose a yacht.
And I know just yesterday I was chewing my fist & bubbling up all "I miss that period of time in everybody’s life when there’s always a wedding you’re going to that’s coming up" but as I said before, the super ironic part is that the higher the divorce rate goes the higher the absurd prices of weddings go:
...the more inured we've become to the outrageously absurd high costs of a wedding (ie $10k for a cake that nobody really gives a shit about), the higher the divorce rate rises. The more we insist on being made to pay for weddings, the less likely we'll be married as time goes on. Wtf?
AND THAT WAS BACK IN 2009.
So now weddings are costing so much that participants are asking guests to shoulder the financial burden? Sorry but one of the good things about going to a wedding is that it's somebody else's wedding; once I'm asked to start chipping in it feels like my own wedding and that just totally sucks all the juices outta that joy, n-'est pas? And what's gonna happen when the divorce rate hits 99% in about 3 years, to go to a wedding will we hafta legally sign over our bank accounts to the bride & groom?
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