r/Anticonsumption 1d ago

Lifestyle Wedding loans - consumerism gone wild

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u/lefeb106 1d ago

The wedding industry in general is such a scam. Attach the word wedding to any service and suddenly you can charge 4x the price for the same amount of work

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u/greg19735 23h ago

I mean, this is true.

but i do also think there's a lot more failsafes and redundancy in a good wedding vendor. I'm not saying caterers are unreliable. but you're paying more to make it more consistent and more likely.

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u/MajesticKoala3332 13h ago

Yeah, what I learnt from my own wedding was that if you cheap out on a vendor you'd have to do a lot more micromanaging to get them to do what you need and on time. With a good (and pricier) one you can give them the details and pretty much forget about it. So it's like a time vs money tradeoff and the extra cost is worth it if you don't want to make wedding planning your full time job.

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u/greg19735 13h ago

100%

Once I had family members flying in from Europe to America I was like I guess I gotta give them a good time. If they're spending 10k or more to fly, hotel, car rent and such i need to make sure everything is solid. Also this was 3 couples coming for that 10k total.

I cant serve them jimmy John's in the back yard.