How much is his commission?

That's the real question here ...

I can pretend that I don't dig that ice luge thing that is on every wedding show ever.

That is just the most self-involved thing in the world to do. Who would possibly spend that kind of money? Even the 75,000?

How much for the godzilla bride?

a 10 million dollar party???
PLEASE tell me this rich people ask their guests to donate to micro loans in lieu of gifts, right? no?

No, if you can afford it, you make a huge difference by giving 10 million dollars to the charity of your choice.

You wanna hear about MY fantasy wedding? It's to be able to legally marry the woman I love.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"Entry-level" wedding. HA! Like you're waiting to get promoted to you're next, better, bigger wedding.

@TeenageGangDeb: Kind of like a starter wedding...

silly silly silly people. They fork out 10 million for the wedding...divorce within 2 years and pay a fuck-load in alimony. wow.

Wow. I am so anti-bridezilla. I'm eloping.

And it's back!

@badmutha: weddings are pricier than you can imagine. If you have 200 people, times $100 a plate (which is not unusual for a good caterer to charge), that's $20,000 for the food alone. Add in flowers, booze, the band, favors, valet parking, the rental for the club -- you can easily get there.

I've said this many times to people: I've been to so many F-ing weddings and the $100,000 ones are no better than the backyard BBQs.

I have to believe you will be punished for spending $10M on a party, if not in this lifetime...

GAH! The kind of women who are into this sort of thing will always throw it in your face how their wedding day is "MY day". Yet they live their entire lives like every day is "MY day". Puke.

Wow, lots of money for what? Something you'll remember on pictures after it's over ? Give money to kiva instead or do something productive like a trip even a shopping trip would seem less stupid as you'd have concrete results from all that money!

@freedc: At least ad Backyard BBQ's the food is recognizable.

Dear People Who Take This Shit Even A Little Seriously,

You give brides everywhere a bad name. You make everyone think a bride planning a wedding wants a trained dove to place a 35 carat diamond ring on her finger as she wears a Vera Wang gown made of silk and baby tiger pelts. Us normal brides planning a reasonable wedding are therefore subject to taunts of "bridezilla" every time we have to go to a dress fitting or pay a vendor.

I hate you all. You and your overwhelming sense of entitlement,
La Comtesse

uhhh...shouldn't the focus be on the couple's love and commitment and not how fancy the reception can be? god, even weddings have become a status symbol. make me gag...

"If you can afford it, you do it." - That's the "let them eat cake" of the bridal-industrial complex.

I think someone should ask Star Jones how she feels about this today.

So, if I spend $75,000 on my wedding, can you guarentee it will last "till death do us part?"

No?

Well then, no marriage for this girl.
Seriously. Ugh.

@RaisonPassion: I don't begrudge people a nice wedding. For some people, weddings are culturally very important. But for Christ's sake, there's a limit!

Now if you could put my picture on a resees peanut butter cup, we may have something. or onto the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop (how many licks doest it take to get to es-ki-mo?). or onto some tart 'n tinys.
**excuse me whilst I go eat a fistfull of glorious sugar**

@Dear Blond Diary...: @zivah: You know, I made that point--tactfully--to the father of a friend of mine who shelled out nearly million for her ridiculously extravagant wedding. He actually didn't take offense and said "You know, I donated over $25 millions to charity in the last 2 years. It's not like I'm throwing this wedding instead of giving money to charity. I can afford to do both, so I do."

@TheOtherJen: Ooohhh zing! Good one!

@BAngieB: But that would somehow devalue MY marriage. You know, the one I can spend $10 million on while the entire African continent starves. The same marriage I can end almost instantly, thanks to quickie divorce laws.

Isn't that how it works? Teh gheys are ruinin' my relationship?

@es-ki-mo: For $75,000 I will personally draw your picture on any candy you want. As long as you don't mind looking like a stick bride.

@LaComtesse: You are officially UNinvited to my nuptials. You can kiss your embossed gift bag goodbye, missy.

And there was a Swarovski crystal-encrusted pair of "Jenndavo & Mr. Jenndavo" flip-slops in there, too.

@jenndavo: Not yours. Just Star Jones's.

@BAngieB: That my uncle and his husband of 25 years are not legally recognized as married is in all seriously one of the top 5 tragedies of my life, and I include the death of my father in there.

I'm sorry, but I have to be honest: If I had $10 million to spare, I would so totally pay it to see my face on an M&M. I *heart* M&Ms with a passion that isn't entirely correct.

@jenndavo: heh heh. "Gheys."

@BeckySharper: Ha ha, OUCH!

I have zero sympathy for that woman. Anyone who turns their wedding into a grab for schwag deserves to end up alone.

@theloudcorral: Hahahahah! Silly girl!

@LaComtesse: I have no idea where that meme came from, but I've fully embraced it. It perfectly encapsulates homophobic ignorance.

@jenndavo: Noooooooo! I've been practicing the electric slide for weeks! Weeks I tell you!

A $10 million wedding, huh? I wonder what the wedding night packages would be. How about sex in a room at the top of the Disneyland Castle? Or maybe it's the Fabio package where the man himself reads out the steamiest passages from his novels to the bride before bedtime?

@jenndavo: Don't forget the annullment, too, so I can pretend it never happened with religious fervor and a sense of superiority. (Yeah, I'm not bitter or anything).

@jenndavo: Anyone who's that obnoxious about her wedding is overcompensating. To say nothing of the whole "I gotta man, y'all! See! I gotta man!"

So I don't feel too bad for her. She got the attention she wanted. Now she has to live with the snark. Her choice.

@brendastarlet: Dahling, I am married to Mr. Badmutha, and we had a lovely wedding, but it wasn't extravagant. To each his own, I guess, especially if you can "afford it."@jenndavo: I really never understood that reasoning. I liked the slogan that said "Support gay marriage: Let them be as miserable as the rest of us." @BAngieB: Of course you should be able to marry. One day you will!

The English language is failing me. Words like "obscene," "ridiculous," and "shocking" don't seem to cover what I think about a $10 million wedding. Perhaps unconscionable??

There's just no excuse for it. I just can't wrap my head around it.

In this whole wedding planning process, I've learned that the more expensive things tend to be totally not my taste, thank goodness. Those huge tree-like centerpieces and stupid bows on chairs that cost something like $7 each are hideous. Its not that hard to have a really great wedding on a reasonable budget. Whats disgusting is that $30,000 is considered reasonable now.

@theloudcorral: weddings have always been a status symbol. If you read Marjorie Morningstar, which Herman Wouk set in the 1930s, Marjorie decides to choose the $5,000 top-of-the-line wedding offered by the Lowenstein catering company, which includes a stairway for the bride to descend, a rose arch through which she enters, and a film crew to capture the whole thing. That would be the equivalent of a $75,000 wedding now.

10 million dollar wedding? no thanks.

I'll take a drive-thru window in Vegas!

@LaComtesse: Show me your best "Cotton-Eyed Joe" moves, too. N Southern wedding is complete without it.

@lolacat: Yeah, no kidding! Hangover divorces don't devalue the average American marriage, but those evil, evil gays do. Tell me another one, Mr. Focus on the Fmaily!

@Cam/ron: I realize how w-r-o-n-g this is, but I've entered a contest for a free weekend stay in the Disneyland castle. It's always been my dream to defile it with 48 hours of the filthiest sex imaginable.

@PinkSoxHat: Just avoid wedding stores. You can get almost everything you need for a wedding without going into bridal boutiques. The adjective "bridal" is the most expensive word in the English language. Making anything specific to a wedding ups the price by at least 50%.

@jenndavo: I can just see the headline.

Jenndavo Fucks On Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Seven Dwarfs Look On in Horror.

I don't know if you guys have heard of this site, offbeatbride.com but it rocks my fucking face off. I'm getting married in August and I'm addicted to it. in a good way though.

Then there's the other extreme - I was dragged to the Filene's Basement Running of the Brides sale in Paramus a few months ago and I'm still bearing the physical and psychological wounds. They literally whip a crowd of rabid discount-seeking bridezillas into a frenzy outside the store in the pre-dawn hours before the sale and then open the doors at 9 a.m., stepping aside as the stampede roars across the linoleum floor, elbowing, shoving, grabbing and squealing...oh the humanity...

We are so totally having a backyard BBQ. I understand that my priorities are so different from other people, but even spending $30,000 seems ridiculous. When I see $30,000, I see condo downpayment not flowers or a band. No disrespect to anyone who spent or plans to spend that.

@WorkingWino: We actually talked about this in my Torts class this year, how Filene's has to remove things like glass shelving beforehand or they'll be liable for negligence.