Comments by "Alice Merray" (@alicemerray) on "The Financial Diet" channel.

I am militantly of the opinion that if you want to have very specific requirements for your wedding - such as it taking place "abroad" from where you habitually live (I'm in the UK, so I'm thinking of a wedding or even a stag/hen do in a European city, or a wedding on a Caribbean beach), or if you want all the guests to wear a certain colour THEN YOU SHOULD PAY FOR THAT. Of course most people couldn't begin to afford to do so, and they should have to cut their coat according to their cloth. We have built up this idea of the fantasy wedding & of anything the couple wants being OK, but it's just completely toxic. I also think it doesn't do anything to mitigate the feeling afterwards of "let down" when the actual marriage can't live up to that one ridiculous day.
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