Weddings are...

:laugh: I assure you, she (and probably your mum and her mum and any females in both families involved) would sacrifice you on the nearest make-shift altar. It'll become more gruesome the closer it is to the wedding. Still funny though :laugh: Here, in the Middle East, getting married is a back-breaker. I coughed up my life savings for: 1. a house (3 bedroom apartment) 2. the wedding (about 23,000 JOD not counting the miscellaneous expenses and the honeymoon) (that's just over 19,000 GBP) 3. the bridal gold set (this set me back 13,000 JOD alone) Its expensive, but if she's the one, its so worth it :)

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You must be feeling brave, if you plan to do that to yourself, even though you would only be able to see where you're cutting without any form of anaesthetic :omg:

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Uh... What are you planning on slicing? :~ I hope its just your veins and nothing else.... Not that I want you cut your wrist in the first place... I'll shut up now :sigh:

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Okay maybe not 30,000 but could be 20,000 250 people at £50 a head Hall £2000 Band £1500 Dress + clothes costs £500 Video + photo £900 Table decoration £250 night in hotel £150 Car hire £200 Misc £1000 and that would be cheap. You could get food for £100 a head. or a better hall. Some of the central London Hotel's charge £10,000 just for the hall.

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That sort of cash could fund a lifetime of sitting under a palm tree on an exotic isle watching the tide roll in.

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What does a bridal gold set consist of?

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Three weddings at under £10K.[^]

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

Here, in the Middle East, getting married is a back-breaker.

Yeah, I think it's probably the same all over then! So far, we've looked at venues and food, which comes to about £10,000. That's obviously not including all the other bits and pieces like honeymoon, rings, clothes, flowers etc. Luckily, we are already living in sin together as we bought a house a few years back. Unluckily it is a house of horrors that hates me and wants to devour any surplus cash in my wallet at every opportunity. Even after 3 years I am still fixing problems. I call it "Event Horizon". :-\ I think I'm going to be working lots of over time...

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*thud thud, splash* ..eh? Did you say something?

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

From memory, the double marriage rings, a bracelet, a necklace, a pair of earrings and a watch (all gold, preferably white, decked with diamonds) there are several other optional accessories, such as tiaras (the one we bought had a tiara), what are known as belts, anklets, toe rings, and anything else that can make a man go bankrupt. In my case, it wasn't my then fiance or my mother in law that went overboard, but my own mother :(( [modification] fixed typo

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Luckily, we are already living in sin together

I really, really hate that expression. Before I married, we lived together like man and wife. You know, no sex and lots of arguments. :-D The divorce solved the arguments bit anyway. :laugh:

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

1.21 Gigawatts wrote:

I call it "Event Horizon".

:laugh:

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I think I'm going to be working lots of over time...

I assure you, you'll be begging for more work/cash soon. But, like I said, if she's the one, you will not regret a moment of it :) Best thing she ever did was convince me to marry her :-D

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:confused: Have I missed something?

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You've never been to a Jewish wedding I take it? If I really pushed and ran around like a headless chicken it can be done for under £15,000 or cheaper if I was to have it in Israel. Or cut down on guests.

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