How much have you spent to attend a wedding?

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jun 26, 2023 11:29:35 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Jun 25, 2023 18:59:22 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Let's tally it up for this weekend. 
Gas $110
Dress for me $145 (Which is super annoying because I have formal dresses. I've just put on too much weight in the last year to wear them.)
One morning of Starbucks $15.05
Charles Schulz Museum $24
Lunch Friday $54
Dinner Friday $155
Resort Lodging $935
Golf (9) $70
Walmart $18.95 (My husband forgot that not every summer day is 90F and had to buy a long-sleeve shirt.  )
Breakfast Sunday $22.50
Lunch Sunday $44.57


Total: $1570.07

Now, the museum and golf was certainly our choice and had little to do with the wedding. 
We absolutely could have eaten elsewhere for much less. 
My mother paid for lunch on Saturday. 

You did better than I would have in Sonoma wine country! I'd be hitting up a couple of wineries and breweries to bring some bottles home! I'd be in heaven if I ever get to Willamette Valley.

Lol, The Willamette Valley is considerably cheaper than Sonoma County. I don't live close enough to it for you to stay with us and tour it. We do have a a rural set of wineries/vineyards where I live, but they're not renowned. Although, we do have world championship blue cheese.

[Cookies Galore]

Jun 26, 2023 20:11:34 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Jun 26, 2023 11:29:35 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

You did better than I would have in Sonoma wine country! I'd be hitting up a couple of wineries and breweries to bring some bottles home! I'd be in heaven if I ever get to Willamette Valley.

Lol, The Willamette Valley is considerably cheaper than Sonoma County. I don't live close enough to it for you to stay with us and tour it. We do have a a rural set of wineries/vineyards where I live, but they're not renowned. Although, we do have world championship blue cheese.

I'm a bigger fan of Willamette Valley Pinot noir, so I definitely want to do an Oregon wine and beer trip. We do the Finger Lakes often (4 hour drive), time to branch out. I just can't resist being in a wine country and not stocking up on wine.

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

Our wedding was going to a destination wedding for someone. We lived in San Francisco at the time, my parents and stepmoms family lived in the area. My dads family all lived in Kansas, DH grew up in Mississippi (parents still there) and his extended family was in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin. We also had friends and siblings in Texas and a groomsman in South Africa

We went ahead and had the wedding in San Francisco, knowing it would probably be one of the few times people came out. We appreciated them making the trip and tried to get done tourist stuff in. The wedding itself was on a boat as it toured the Bay. The “rehearsal diner” was going to a giants game and we rounded folks up to go down to Monterey the day after. I knows lot of people spent a lot of $$ and I hope they had fun and got a good vacation out of it.

[happyhoix]

The big fancy destination wedding we were invited to we didn’t attend - we had a toddler and the wedding was child free, plus there were activities planned over 3 days, so between the air fair, resort fees, meals and vacation time off work when I only had two weeks per year, we couldn’t justify it.

Kind of wish we went though. Grooms grandfather and his wife got into a fight in the church vestibule which was audible in the church during the ceremony. (They divorced soon after).

Not often you get to see a relationship break up at the exact same time one is starting.

Poor grandpa was married 40 years, then his wife died and he ended up quickly marrying a series of women he was not really compatible with. Just didn’t know how to function as a widow. Poor guy.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jun 26, 2023 20:24:46 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Jun 26, 2023 20:11:34 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Lol, The Willamette Valley is considerably cheaper than Sonoma County. I don't live close enough to it for you to stay with us and tour it. We do have a a rural set of wineries/vineyards where I live, but they're not renowned. Although, we do have world championship blue cheese.

I'm a bigger fan of Willamette Valley Pinot noir, so I definitely want to do an Oregon wine and beer trip. We do the Finger Lakes often (4 hour drive), time to branch out. I just can't resist being in a wine country and not stocking up on wine.

I am in no way a knowledgeable wino. I definitely drink it, but I do not have a discerning palate. That said,  , from the  northern part of Oregon, I enjoy King's Estate, Eola, and Stoller. I probably like others but just don't remember having them or remember their names. 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Jun 27, 2023 8:23:38 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Jun 26, 2023 20:24:46 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

I'm a bigger fan of Willamette Valley Pinot noir, so I definitely want to do an Oregon wine and beer trip. We do the Finger Lakes often (4 hour drive), time to branch out. I just can't resist being in a wine country and not stocking up on wine.

I am in no way a knowledgeable wino. I definitely drink it, but I do not have a discerning palate. That said,  , from the  northern part of Oregon, I enjoy King's Estate, Eola, and Stoller. I probably like others but just don't remember having them or remember their names. 

We drink a lot of Stoller…..it’s quite good.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

ners, it's absolutely adorable.  It's quite well done in a professional sense. It's even been updated since November when there was an international tribute to Charles Schulz on what would have been his 100th birthday. It took us about two hours to go through it all. I'm the type who reads all the things, so it could be done faster. Here's another picture. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

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[tcu2003]

Jun 26, 2023 20:24:46 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Jun 26, 2023 20:11:34 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Lol, The Willamette Valley is considerably cheaper than Sonoma County. I don't live close enough to it for you to stay with us and tour it. We do have a a rural set of wineries/vineyards where I live, but they're not renowned. Although, we do have world championship blue cheese.

I'm a bigger fan of Willamette Valley Pinot noir, so I definitely want to do an Oregon wine and beer trip. We do the Finger Lakes often (4 hour drive), time to branch out. I just can't resist being in a wine country and not stocking up on wine.

My Wine Club (8 women) went to Willamette Valley last October for our 15-year Wine Club anniversary and loved it. And I swear we looked like lushes when we got back to KC and the multiple wine boxes came rolling off the luggage carousel. Which doesn’t include the other winery wine clubs we joined that were shipping wine later.

[tcu2003]

Most expensive wedding we attended was in Toronto. Flights for 4 was around $2k, plus hotel and car rental and everything else. Totally worth it, though - we stuck around and went to Niagara Falls, plus tons of sight-seeing in Toronto. The wedding was a lavish (to me, at least) Hindu Indian ceremony, and so beautiful. We had a blast, and I am so glad we went.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jul 3, 2023 12:35:02 GMT -5 tcu2003 said:

Jun 26, 2023 20:24:46 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

I'm a bigger fan of Willamette Valley Pinot noir, so I definitely want to do an Oregon wine and beer trip. We do the Finger Lakes often (4 hour drive), time to branch out. I just can't resist being in a wine country and not stocking up on wine.

My Wine Club (8 women) went to Willamette Valley last October for our 15-year Wine Club anniversary and loved it. And I swear we looked like lushes when we got back to KC and the multiple wine boxes came rolling off the luggage carousel. Which doesn’t include the other winery wine clubs we joined that were shipping wine later.

Lol. I probably would have judged you all getting the wine boxes at baggage claim.


Have I shown everyone the wine cupboard I had designed for my kitchen? I can't remember if I posted it in the house thread. I'll go look. 

[trimatty471]

Jun 23, 2023 19:20:46 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

My cousin gets married tomorrow.
Because we could work it into our schedule, my DH and I are attending. I have not seen this set of cousins in almost 20 years, since our grandmother’s passing. I have seen my aunt and uncle a handful of times.

I live in a pretty low key part of society so have never been to a “destination” wedding. However, my cousin is having a fancy schmancy wedding.
It’s being held here

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Have you been to a wedding that cost you a significant amount of money to attend?

Yep.  And to make matters worst, I was in the wedding.  I am estimating but I’m guessing that I spent about $2-$3K.  It was destination wedding to the Bahamas.

[ripvanwinkle]

10 yrs ago my daughters friend was getting married. It was in Puerto Rico. My daughter wanted me to come so I did. A father/daughter trip. Had a nice time. She paid for her trip and I paid for mine. I spent $1200. Hotel, airfare, food and sightseeing.

It was only after the wedding that I learned that this was just a "celebration wedding" get together because they got married 3 month before. I felt this was just dishonest.

Won't go to a destination wedding again.

[TheOtherMe]

I have never done a destination wedding and I never will.

The people of marriage age in my family are of the age where only my own niece and nephews and their kids invite me.  And that is fine by me.

My DN2 was a groomsmen in a destination wedding.  The best man, the groomsmen and a couple of ushers all drove to South Carolina together for a beach wedding.  They shared rooms, 4 to a room.  Good thing they did as the promised reimbursement never came.

Then they had a reception here and he had to appear again and gave another gift.  That was his last destination wedding.

[Cookies Galore]

We watched a couple get married on the beach during our vacation last week, so I guess we spent $8,700 to watch someone's destination wedding, lol.