"Homeless enjoy meal of a lifetime after couple call off wedding"
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After a California couple called off their wedding, the bride-to-be’s family decided to turn the extravagant, $35,000 event into a feast for the homeless."
Duane said her 27-year-old daughter called her Monday to tell her she and her fiance had decided not go through with the wedding. Soon after, the family decided to share the nonrefundable event with the less fortunate.
“Even though my husband and I were feeling very sad for our daughter, it was heartwarming to see so many people be there and enjoy a meal,” Duane said.
Part of the wedding price tag includes a nonrefundable honeymoon, so on Sunday, mother and daughter set off for Belize.
“I hope that when she looks back at this, she knows she was doing something good with a bad situation,” Duane said.
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43 comments:
Weddings are waste of money. But in this case, they did the right thing. Why not? If you cannot get your money back, let someone else enjoy your huge waste of money.
Seriously, WHY spend all that dough on a party?
The best parties are always the ones that break out impromptu, anyway.
The bridge and groom should pay for their own damn party. Then maybe they'd take their vows a little more seriously.
And I note that the husband didn't go to Belize. Somebody has to get up in the morning pay for all that "free" food and good will toward homeless.
OK, that's the kind of Christianity the Lefties don't get.
You do what you can with what you got.
Usually I'm against doing anything for bums, but this one is good.
AprilApple said...
Weddings are waste of money
Depends.
If you're trying to impress people, I'd say yeah.
If you just want the world to know how happy you are and want them to share in it, there are worse reasons to throw a party.
As The Blonde says, "If we don't celebrate, will anybody do it for us?".
That is one goddamned happy story. A tragedy avoided, homeless got a great meal, somebody goes on vacation.
Makes me feel good this afternoon.
I Got married in Vegas. Technically I as without my home when we had dinner afterwards. We spent our 14th wedding anniversary in Belize.
Good story out of a bad situation for the former bride to be.
AprilApple said...
Weddings are waste of money. But in this case, they did the right thing. Why not? If you cannot get your money back, let someone else enjoy your huge waste of money.
October 19, 2015 at 1:23 PM
Amartel said...
Seriously, WHY spend all that dough on a party?
Yeah really, you're just getting MARRIED ! Why make a big deal out of it?
OT, but what the hell.
I almost got scammed today. I got an email from a longtime friend saying she was in the Philippines and had her bags stolen, and needed $1650 right away to get home. I was a little suspicious, as I am anytime people ask me for money, but it was her email address that sent the email, and she wanted me to send to her name in Manila, so OK, maybe. I was preparing to send the money, but I wanted to make sure. The email was in perfect English, but didn't quite sound like her. It was slightly formal for her writing to me. I replied with "How do I know this is really you? Tell me where we used to drink back in the day down on Route 8 in PA." She replied with assurances that she could never get the money without photo ID and proof it was really her, BUT SHE DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION.
So, now I'm very suspicious, so I check it out closer and notice that the email address I'm corresponding with is slightly different than the real one. They changed an "m" into rn, but left all the rest identical. Now I know it's a scam.
The curious thing is that the original email they sent WAS from the correct email address. All I did was press the reply button, and it went to the fake address instead. I don't know how they did that. They also copied her unique signoff that she uses in all her emails.
I called her and told her about it, and she broadcast a warning out to all her contacts.
That is some tricky and dangerous stuff. I hate identity theft. It's just about the most horrible, selfish and cruel of nonviolent crimes. It's way too easy, and a constant threat to us all that we can't do much about.
Leland said...
We spent our 14th wedding anniversary in Belize.
Dare I ask where?
The Blonde and a friend (long story) spent a cruise ship stopover in Belize City and she said she could just smell the hepatitis and pseudomonas (she has an incredible snoot) and said her friend got sick after she was told by Guess Who not to touch anything but did.
Tank,
Ooooh, putting a price tag on loooove, are we? But seriously, how much is too much? It differs for different people (not a big one for ceremony, myself) and different income levels. $35,000 is not that extravagant for some but it really strikes me as OTT for a party for people starting out in life. Buy a house first and then invite the friends over for a party and go on a big vacation.
Yeah really, you're just getting MARRIED ! Why make a big deal out of it?
I know, right? ;)
eh - huge waste of money. The ceremonial stuff is silly to me. Real love doesn't require a marriage start off in debt.
I get the ceremonial stuff is important but culturally we have taken it to an absurd degree.
Bagoh - glad you caught it. My sister-in-law was scammed over the phone by the fake IRS. Scared the holy crap out of her. She called my mom on her other phone and luckily my mom had the fortitude to tell my sister-in-law to scream "this is a scam" and hang up. The scammers are good at what they do.
April I understand that weddings are not important to communists.
I had a wonderful patriotic wedding at historic Fraunces Tavern where General Washington said farewell to his troops. I had a guy dressed as General Washington greeting people at the door. They had the opportunity to go to the Fraunces Tavern Museum which had an exhibit on the Battle of New York. People signed my guest book with a quill pen and got a place card that was the Deceleration of Independence.
It is almost always better to have a wedding at a great restaurant instead of a traditional catering hall. Although some halls are pretty nice.
Weddings are important for several reason. The celebration of your love. A chance for family and friends. And most importantly....to get back an envelope from all the people you gave envelopes out for their weddings.
Sounds super, Troop. Probably didn't set you back 35,000, though.
I'm not so much a commie as a cynical self-centered realist.
I could plan an amazing trip to New Zealand with that 35,000 - and have enough over for sexy Spenglerian.
A celebration of love is fine with me. Spending so much money that parents take out second mortgages or kids start off in debt is schtoopid. Now, if you can afford it, great. Knock yourself out. I hear photo-booths are all the rage.
I like the idea of quiet personal weddings - or loud ones - in the back yard at Bagohs. with gay dudes.
Crap - I am a commie.
The ceremony itself does not cost that much. It's the showboating for everyone that costs.
I paid for it out of my own pocket as people who get married should do.
Weddings are very important in the Italian American culture. It is the one time you put your differences aside and celebrate as a family.
Unlike the Irish who do that for funerals.
A wedding is a very personal thing for a woman. A man should support his wife and help her have the dream wedding that she had thought about since she was a little girl. It doesn't matter to the guy. But it should matter to the guy that he help his lady get what she wants. If he can't do that.....then lose that loser cause it ain't gonna work out.
A wedding is a very personal thing for a woman. A man should support his wife and help her have the dream wedding that she had thought about since she was a little girl.
Bah.
Hype. Women have been hypnotized by the wedding industry to spend too much money. All you need is love.
We spent a couple weeks in Belize last year at this place.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g291962-d658823-Reviews-X_tan_Ha_Resort-San_Pedro_Ambergris_Caye_Belize_Cayes.html
The cities are pretty crappy like most places in Central America, but things are cheap. Out in the country and along the coast and islands, the hotels and resort beaches are phenomenally beautiful. Clean, warm, quiet and expensive. The excursions into the forest and along the coasts are amazing fun and otherworldly. A big plus is the English spoken by nearly everyone. It's the most laid back place I've ever been.
My wife and I paid for our wedding out of our own pockets. 25 years later, we are divorcing so, I think we got our money's worth. :D It was a good run.
If I ever get married, I'll talk my bride into crashing some other sucker's wedding and just pretending it's ours. Mrs. Right would like that idea, wherever she is.
I estimate that I have been to 250 weddings in my life. Starting with my aunt when I was the "flower boy." I was five.
The party was pretty good. It was the sixites after all so kids were allowed to wander free range. I went around and finished off a bunch of half empty drinks that people left around.
First time I got wasted. First time I puked from drinking.
Good times.
Keep telling yourself that April.
Love is never enough. You need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars so the rest of the family will hate you for having a better wedding than their loser kids.
To this day people come up to me and tell me that the steaks at Fraunces Tavern were the best food they ever had at a wedding.
Weddings are important, but to each their own. I agree w/ April, in the past 15-20 years weddings have become an industry, just like litigation. And the biggest twats walking this earth are wedding planners. I dealt w/ one a few weeks ago @ a wedding I officiated. Weddings are the Super Bowl for women and wedding planners are like arrogant Super Bowl coaches.
At the Super Bowl they're honest enough to only give the winner a ring.
Oh I totally agree. Weddings are not everyone.
Some people jump over a broom and call themselves married. Sometimes two dudes pretend to get married. Enjoy.
Leave the rest of us alone in our conspicuous consumption.
It is our white privilege.
Have you even seen "Say Yes to the Dress?"
They show brides to be and their families of widely varied racial persuasions.
It's a bit freaky how much they're into it and how much they're interested in indulging.
Did I mention that I opened the closet door to my old bedroom at my parent's house expecting to see a few of shirts hanging (I saw my sister wearing one of my old shirts, a Hawaiian pattern with distinctly black background) but instead the entire closet was taken up with two white wedding dresses, most puzzling, and I never did get a good answer about those two dresses. The were elaborate too, very puffy dresses. I asked all the women and none of them had an answer for why those two dresses were in there. Somebody's indulgence.
Aridog:
I just now notice a bunch of comments (like 5) from you hung up in moderation for no apparent reason so I released them all. That was 9/25. Apologies for not noticing this earlier. They showed on a page that doesn't get looked at much.
What a bummer. And there's no way to complain when that happens.
Nobody x'd you out. Or else they'd be gone. Now they're published, but late.
Oh wow. A single meal. That will go very far.
Someone has to remind the country to insult conservatives more often.
If I ever get married, I'll talk my bride into crashing some other sucker's wedding and just pretending it's ours. Mrs. Right would like that idea, wherever she is.
You're not rich enough for any woman narcissistic enough to be your soul-mate.
... when I was the "flower boy".
Flower boy? You know this admission will only bring you future ridicule and scorn. By me. Flower boy.
Ed, it was by cruise ship. I don't recall any particular smell. I just remember it being hotter and more humid than Texas. We did the excursion to Altun Ha, which was impressive until I visited Uxmal this year.
"Someone has to remind the country to insult conservatives more often."
It's impossible to do it any more than is already happening among the chattering classes. Even you had to do it in 100% of your comments on this thread.
"You're not rich enough for any woman narcissistic enough to be your soul-mate."
You got that right, which is why I need a tax cut. How am I gonna get any Kardashian booty with what you socialists leave me?
Was this homeless meal from a 4 star restaurant? No charity is worthwhile unless you waste a bunch of money on worthless expense. Isn't that right?
You got that right, which is why I need a tax cut. How am I gonna get any Kardashian booty with what you socialists leave me?
See? Well, that's the answer. Beg for her money first. Then you'll have enough of it to get her booty. Which for a pirate is the same thing anyway.
The new trend in Hollywood is slightly less rich husbands getting money from slightly less poor ex-wives. The latest example is Megan Fox and the 90210 kid.
You'll do well, Bags. Marry rich, divorce with enough to take. Remember, Calinorfia is a community-property state.
Which is way more socialist than anything Bernie Sanders will do.
LOL! I missed the Flower Boy admission. It was a wedding, so there is photographic evidence. If I learn a person I'm investigating for personal injury fraud had attended a wedding I always seek out photos and videos. There are thousands of photos shot of weddings in this digital age. I see a cute, chubby, 5 year old Jimmy in a powder blue tuxedo.
Hey I am secure in my masculinity. You can call me Flower Boy all you want.
Just don't call me Lawnboy. That's for pansies.
Once a flower boy - always a flower boy. A young man's first experience in public where everyone is noticing him and he feels special and pretty. The satisfaction of that shit will stick with you for a lifetime. You never stop wanting to go back to that feeling. When is the next gay parade anyway?
Bags, Being a Flower Boy helped prepare him for being a bra salesman, like George Costanza.
Trooper York said...
People signed my guest book with a quill pen and got a place card that was the Deceleration of Independence.
That's exactly what weddings will do - decelerate independence.
Trooper York said...
I estimate that I have been to 250 weddings in my life. Starting with my aunt when I was the "flower boy." I was five.
The party was pretty good. It was the sixites after all so kids were allowed to wander free range. I went around and finished off a bunch of half empty drinks that people left around.
First time I got wasted. First time I puked from drinking.
Well that story's right up there with Titus' story about losing his virginity at age 9 with a neighbor girl inside his parent's dog house.
In the 50's and early '60's, a real boy's job at a wedding was ring bearer. But, they probably didn't want 5-year old Troop to get that job because he'd wisecrack to the groom about "rings plug no holes" between quaffs of Jameson. So they pussied him out as a flower boy and he got wasted out of spite.
Hey what can I say! I didn't rate ring bearer.
Think Merry or Pippen not Frodo.
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