[goat granny]

I watched a show on TV about women buying their wedding gowns...It floored me that some say their budget for the dress in Ten Thousand Dollars.... Geeze, you could buy 1/2 car for that much money for a dress to wear one day....idiots all it seems like to me...My bridesmaids rented their gowns as none of them could afford a lot of money....It was a fine wedding, catered by one of my bridesmaids grandma. She bought all the chicken and vegetables fresh and we had a sit down old fashion family style dinner. My gown was 500 dollars. Marriage lasted 33 years until hubby died of his one and only heart attach...

[Tax-chick]

I was just explaining to my daughters this week the advantages of getting a wedding dress at a consignment or thrift store. (There was an attractive, basic gown in the window at The Salvation Army.) If you spend $100 at TSA and another $150 getting it altered, you’ve still done really well, especially for something you’re only going to wear once.

I had mine made by a seamstress: about $100 for the fabric and another $200 for the sewing, iirc.

[Cronos]

Prayers for your husband and thank you for sharing that to us young ‘uns

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

The only time I ever paid more than $10K for a car was when we bought my wife’s car at the end of its lease (she leased it shortly before we began dating; I had no say in that).

Not to mention we spent less than that on our entire wedding. We were married in a chapel in Lake Tahoe, NV with only our immediate families in attendance and our reception was a month later (long story short, we got married on the way to a race event in Kansas I was competing in) with about 70 guests.

We haven’t topped you on longevity, but we’re working on it! We celebrated our 10th anniversary last September.