Wait. Her family was supposed to pay for the wedding?

SONUVABIATCH

$20k for one day? fark that shiat, I'm gonna elope.

What the hell is up with the quotes in the article? Every time they run a quote from this person, it turns into unpunctuated word salad. Did they hand off a pre-written article to some chowderhead the day before her wedding and ask her to fill it in Mad Libs style?

In before "My wedding only cost $24 after we served the 4 guests Dairy Queen"

Yikes, she didn't hit her "depressed about pant size" meltdown until 22? When I was faced with trying on a size 8 I had a meltdown. Now I'm a loose six and working towards a four.

Say No to Mudflaps

Why are wedding dressed designed to make the bride's tits look three cup sizes bigger than they really are?

It is nuts that people spend so much money on one day to feed and entertain mostly loose acquaintances.

Oh and our wedding was about $12k (and another $10k for the honeymoon), but we didn't go into debt for any of it. We had a blast too, so it was worth it to me.

RexTalionis: I know people who have a combined 400,000 dollars in debt (law school debt, to be precise) to spend $35,000 dollars on their wedding. I don't think any concern outside of their own "perfect day" is on their mind. (Although, to be honest, I think the bride was driving up the majority of the costs in that wedding.)

I had a $25K wedding 8 years ago. I just stood around agape as the various costs tallied up. Some women need to have it, and there's no point in thinking about it further. .

$10K of that cost was just the open bar tab -- we have some hard-drinking friends.

/still married

I didn't have a typical wedding. We went to a courthouse in Colorado and paid about $15. Got dressed up that night, took pictures and had an awesome dinner with the immediate family. It was a great day. We may throw a huge party, along the lines of what our wedding could have been, on our 10 year anniversary.

The more you eat the more you fart: Why are wedding dressed designed to make the bride's tits look three cup sizes bigger than they really are?

The better question is why is not everything else designed to make the tits tittier?

The more you eat the more you fart: Why are wedding dressed designed to make the bride's tits look three cup sizes bigger than they really are?

Because men like bewbies.

My wedding cost too much but it made my wife happy, and that's all that really matters.

Did he propose just to get her to work out? How is looking good at the wedding more important than meeting the right guy to begin with? Do these women just want the wedding photos than put weight back on and dump the guy just to finish life like a crazy cat woman?

/hurts my head

I dunno...the woman in the article was heavy, then was actually smart about how she lost the weight: she dieted AND did exercise.

She had the surgery to remove the loose skin that was left after she dropped all that weight, and a breast lift to return her tits to their normal position.

I don't see a problem with what she did...and normally, I think plastic surgery is just vain or for the shallow.

bdub77: (gotta love catholic weddings - except for the wedding itself which drones on)

THIS.

/some Catholic weddings last longer than the actual marriage.

She must be something special for the groom to overlook those marks on her belly. Surgery doesn't fix that, does it?

In 15 years or less she'll regret spending that money for that one-shot wedding thing. Guar-an-tee.

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Not all men want those perfect-due-to-surgery tits. IMO, nice tits SHOULD have a little sag to them...the "undercurve" of the breast is part of what makes them so pretty and attractive.

If you get those fake boobs that look like two halves of a sphere stuck on your chest, then that's not very attractive at all.

Our wedding cost was around $16K (maybe a bit more) but that included her ring. And frankly, spending $5K on something she's going to wear every day for the rest of her life doesn't seem that bad.

The remaining costs paid for one hell of a wedding and party. We didn't skimp on anything, no VFW halls or church basements, but we didn't get the ultra-expensive stuff either. There's a sweet spot in there where you can spend more than nothing and get quite a lot.

We had about a year to save up for it and walked away from a fantastic wedding and honeymoon with no debt from it.

lack of warmth: Did he propose just to get her to work out? How is looking good at the wedding more important than meeting the right guy to begin with? Do these women just want the wedding photos than put weight back on and dump the guy just to finish life like a crazy cat woman?

I think many women see this as a wake up call really. Sure she may have had a cute little waist when they first met but after years of dating, and then living together and then maybe even having a kid first you just sort of let yourself go. Then all of a sudden he whips a ring out and you're happy and excited and then you start arranging the tables of where your friends and families will sit and that's when it hits you: wedding pictures. These will be the pictures you have on your mantle for the next 70 years (or less depending on how long the marriage lasts) and you have to remember that you were that big always. Of all the occasions you have documented throughout your life its the wedding photos you more likely share more than any other and the one of yourself that you have to confront. So, if he stuck with her through thick and thin and then literal thick and thin then I think he's willing to enjoy the skinniness while he still can.

The more you eat the more you fart: Not all men want those perfect-due-to-surgery tits. IMO, nice tits SHOULD have a little sag to them...the "undercurve" of the breast is part of what makes them so pretty and attractive.

As a woman who, even at age 12, was cursed with saggy boobs, I can tell you that you can go bite your tongue.

Anyone else check out 'uniboob'?

aaaand "bridalplasty" explodes out of the gate! Can it hold the lead all the way to December or will a mid-year newcomer challenge it for the coveted "stupidest word of 2012" crown?!

/I know it was around before
//still... place bets now

Both my weddings came to about 800 bucks. Together.

Only in America, folks.

KatjaMouse: The more you eat the more you fart: Not all men want those perfect-due-to-surgery tits. IMO, nice tits SHOULD have a little sag to them...the "undercurve" of the breast is part of what makes them so pretty and attractive.

As a woman who, even at age 12, was cursed with saggy boobs, I can tell you that you can go bite your tongue.

No...I just prefer the woman I am with to be as happy with her body as I am.

Kind of a buzz-kill to think of a woman as the most beautiful thing I have ever seen only to have her be overly-critical of various parts of her body because she's trying to measure up to posters of airbrushed models with firm as a rock augmented boobs.

If you think the bridalplasty is expensive, wait till you see the bill for the wifectomy.

But who supposed to pay for the bridalplasty?

The bride should pay for 70% because its her face

the groom should pay for 30% because he has to look at it

//he groom should be required to watch a few episodes of Married with Children before the big day. it is his destiny.

ampoliros: There's a sweet spot in there where you can spend more than nothing and get quite a lot.

Yep. We spent about $17k and it was awesome. So much food, so much wine, so much fun!

Total wedding cost a decade ago for me was about $600. That's including the reception, the gas to the wedding location and the clothes, food, decorations and reception location were free. Reception would have just been a bbq had it not been for my husband's aunt calling in a favor from a family friend who was in the wedding business. It was still a nice evening and a nice reception.

I was of the mind and still am of the mind that it's the marriage that's important, not the wedding. Getting immediately into debt as newlyweds seems stupid as can be as well.

czetie: wifectomy.

LOL

downstairs: My wedding cost $30.44, I was happy to pay that out of pocket. Actually, my business paid for the $0.44 stamp, so I guess the final cost was $30.00.

Was that the cost of the mail order bride?

I just want my day to be like ... 'That was my special day and I got to get to feel like a princess,'" she said.

*BARF*

"I wanna feel like a princess!"
"FARK YOU, DISNEY!"

This article sucks. From everything except the specific of the lone subject featured it makes it sound like these brides who do this are vaporous airheads who feel they have to be absolutely stunning and they aren't, probably from a low self esteem. The one person featured is someone who lost a lot of weight the hard (but proper) way and only had surgery to lose the loose skin. This is a very common necesity after huge weight loss. Remember fat bastard at the end of Goldmember? Thats a bit of a exageration but not that much. In fact if a real person lost as much weight as FB did, thats really not too far off the mark. I know someone who lost 200 lbs... He looked like a half deflated volleyball.

Some insurance companies cover it medically. Many do not. Thats if you even have insurance nowadays. If you've lost that much weight and have that much excess skin, ti's worth it. $20K sounds ridiculous though.... although she did have a bit of lip and a breast lift. Again, it's not uncommon to have that done in conjunction with the skin removal procedure.

//i sound fat