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Whenever I get into a discussion with a woman about how stupid big weddings are and she uses the "but girls dream about it their whole lives" rigamarole, I hit her with "Yeah well I've always dreamed about being a submarine captain. But I'm not about to spend 50k of mine and my families money to rent the Navy Yard for the day and live out a fantasy." They never have an answer for that.
My GF and I have been together for a few years and if it was up to me we wouldn't even bother with a wedding. The way I see it, we already live together and share our lives, what would change if we got married? Nothing. It's just a formality. And if it's just a formality, there's no reason whatsoever to spend 20k on a one-day party.
My chick mostly agrees with this but I know it still matters to her, so I'm sure at some point we'll tie the knot. If/when we do, it'll be a low cost, casual deal with family and close friends. Money much better spent on a house or even an awesome vacation.
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Bought all the booze at the PX. Tax free. Hired 2 bartenders that I like at my local bar for $250 and I let them keep tips.
800 for wedding singer. Actual band. Not a douschey dj.
Biggest tab was $6000 for the food but we had 300 people packed in.
Center pieces we made. Cut wood, stained them. Used empty wine bottles wrapped rope around them. Etc. we did pay some lady $500 to rent linens and gave her set all the tables up.
My grandparents made probably 1000 cookies for the dressert table.
Wiseco donated 500 key chains for the seat chart.
Just get creative. Don’t pay the wedding tax.
Call a venue ask them what they want for a family reunion. Two days later call and ask about the same venue but say it’s for a wedding and watch how drastically different the price is. Ahhhh the wedding tax. Then call them out on it and hang up. (Did that myself)
College and weddings 2 biggest scams going on right now to rake in money.
ps. The personalized glasses are classic !
I've been to many weddings where the photographer just isn't taking nearly enough photos. And worse when he sits down to eat for 45 minutes. No. A good photographer snacks when he can. And he is always taking photos of something. Anything.
Something else we did is we placed 2 or 3 disposable cameras on every table. They are cheap and it gave the guests an opportunity to take a few photos. They really turned out great because you get a lot of unexpected photos!
Put together a list in Excel of all of the traditional wedding photos you want.
Bride and Groom
Bride and Mom
Bride and Dad
Bride and Mom and Dad
Groom and Mom
Groom and Dad
Groom and Mom and Dad
Bride and Groom and both sets of parents
Groom and Bride and Best man and Maid of Honor
etc etc etc etc
You will be surprised at all of the different combinations you will have.
Print this sheet out and give to best man and to best woman and have them call out who is needed in the next photo. And have them mark off after each photo is done.
It can also help to logically group the photos you want. If you want old aunt claire in some photos then group those together so you are not running around looking for her every 10 minutes. Especially kids. Group these photos together.
Anyways, that helped us a ton and made the after wedding photos go much faster and far more organized then trying to think in my head all of the combinations of photos we wanted. We already had it all down on paper.
If you thought the wedding was expensive......
Zero regrets. This was back in 2005, but I think I was out less than $5k for the whole ordeal.
Her parents offered to pay for a big reception (as they did for their other daughter), but I told my FIL to go a motorcycle instead. He's now got 3. Guess who their favorite son-in-law is!
That said, any chance they have to take money based on emotion or appearances will be exploited 1000%. My bro's daughter, my niece, got married. She works at Marriott as an event planner, sorority girl, fancy tastes etc. so she needed the works. It ended up being $50,000. He agreed to chip in and his cut was $10k. Now as a working married couple with two kids, they seem to struggle a bit financially. They should have put the money down on a house and had a party there instead.
The only thing worse is funerals. When my Dad died I realized what a sick racket that is. The guy acted all concerned and then for some reason a payment didn't go through and they were pretty much ruthless. The funeral home told us to cough up the cash or the funeral wouldn't happen (we were busy managing our dad's death and dealing with all that). They realize how incredibly embarrassing a funeral being cancelled for lack of payment would be. I can't imagine how poor people handle the death of a loved one with any dignity because my Dad had money and was respected in the community and it was still a PITA
My wedding consisted of driving down to the JOP, paying a few bucks, celebrating with a Bloody Mary and going home. But we are in a special situation with family (we have none).
Pit Row
you guys charge a lot of fuckin' money to have other people do your work for you bro
The formal photos right after ceremony kinda suck so the quicker you can get through it and maintain your sanity the better.
I've shot weddings and the minimum I would charge is 5K for two shooters, slideshow, album, and the editing. Good thing I don't do it for a living.
And a lot of those formal photos can’t be done until after the ceremony. Some can yes. But a lot if them can’t.
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