Okay, it's late and my mind is wandering so I'm going to share my mental babblings with you guys--whoever cares to read them.
My mentality is very permanent. I tend to think that I have to finish something, once I start it. For example, I feel like I probably will go to the same college for all four years for the sole reason of that's where I started. There could be a few things that change my mind but those would be really big things--and moving would be a really big deal.
(quick back story: I'm down visiting my brother this weekend and we were talking about special occasion dresses.) I made a comment about how I don't understand when girls spend several hundred dollars on their prom dresses; the only dress that I'll spend a lot of money on is my--you guessed it--my wedding dress. My brother asked his devil's advocate question--as he likes to do. "Why are you going to spend so much on that dress?" And that question actually have me a lot of pause. Besides the fact that bridal gowns do just tend to cost a fair bit of money, I have no real reason to spend a lot of money on one. I mean, I am only going to wear it for a day and then it'll hide in my closet for the rest of my life. What really is the big deal about the dress? I know that I will want that day to be perfect but life isn't perfect...why should my dress be super expensive?
well see that is a question that has always baffled me also , people spending thousands on a dress for one day , so my thoughts are is it not better to rent it ? or! wear it clean it then sell it ? the day will be perfect because of the people surrounding you and of course the cake !! regardless of what you wear :)
ReplyDeleteI've been married 32 years; my dress at the time cost $150; it was nice, it wasn't elegant, but it was affordable and it was what I wanted. What gets me is sometimes people spend more money and time on the wedding that they forget planning for life after the wedding, marriage, and the effect that is going to have on them. My husband used to play in bands and played at a lot of weddings. Sometimes I would go with him and we would see all the money spent at a particular wedding, we would often wonder how many of these marriages actually lasted long enough to pay the wedding off.
ReplyDeleteI do like the idea of renting a dress though.
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