Posted on 07/15/2017 6:33:18 AM PDT by SMGFan
Sarah Cummins was supposed to get married this weekend. The 25-year-old Purdue University pharmacy student had been planning her dream wedding for two years, scrimping and working overtime to save for the $30,000 extravaganza. A week ago, she called it off (she prefers not to say why) and was left with a broken heart and a nonrefundable contract for a venue and a plated dinner for 170 guests Saturday night at the Ritz Charles in Carmel.
“It was really devastating to me. I called everyone, canceled, apologized, cried, called vendors, cried some more, and then I started feeling really sick about just throwing away all the food I ordered for the reception,” she said.
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i find it obnoxious when folks have to call attention to all their good deeds. It makes me wonder if they are doing this from their heart, or for all the glory.
Valley Girl
Thats just parable.
bums
Mmmmm I’ll marry her and invite you FReeps. Problems solved. Unless she’s a liberal of course. Then Laz can have her.
30k with no contingency clause or event insurance? Understand why she’s a pharmacy major.
However, if faced with a similar set of circumstances, I would be certain to get my money’s worth.
Ouch $30/k on a failed wedding celebration is gonna leave a mark in her soul and a big debit to her finances. Plus a solo honey less moon? Oh to be young and stupido.
I think it’s great they’re keeping to their contracts and going to hold an event as they already paid for, but I’d like to toss out a thought just in case someone else ends up in the same boat and draws inspiration from what happened here...
Rather than inviting homeless shelters, instead invite group homes for the disabled or senior living homes. Places where a monthly trip to a market is seen as a special event can really use a good party and socializing. Plus they also bring their own supervision which I’m sure the venue would also appreciate.
She's going with her mother whom the ex-fiance transferred his tickets to (which I'm not sure is better or worse than going solo.)
Sure is a believable story. Girl still in college saves $30,000 for her own wedding. I remember having that kind of cash when I was going to school. Daddy is paying for daughter to have a party for homeless people.
Why didn’t she let the people who were to be coming to the wedding come?
I like your idea better.
Wow, she wins the Virtue Signalling Sweepstakes!
Yes! I heartily concur.
This is one thing an angry person who might want tax benefit on expenditures might do. Could this be used as charity donation on taxes?
$30,000???
I remember the four of us not being able to scrape up $3,000 for a down payment when the owners of the house we were renting decided to sell it.
Did she even try to negotiate a settlement? I bet she has several tens of thousands of dollars in student loans that she could pay down with her wedding savings account.
“”scrimping and working overtime to save for the $30,000 extravaganza””
If the groom bailed out of the wedding because of her desire to waste $30,000 on an event they probably could not afford, then it appears the groom made a wise decision.
We recently attended a wedding where the young couple (late 20’s) did not want any physical stuff. No, instead they wanted cash contributions to pay for a honeymoon trip to the Caribbean. In this case I know the newlyweds have zero money and could have made much better use of physical stuff as gifts instead of a Caribbean trip they otherwise had no wherewithal to take.
The groom dodged a bullet with this self centered girl: http://rs1174.pbsrc.com/albums/r617/orqlink/4257397C00000578-4697212-image-m-54_1500046488598_zpsgslby05u.jpg?w=280&h=210&fit=crop
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