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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #50 on: April 21, 2011, 11:14:47 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on April 21, 2011, 10:10:44 AM
If a grandfather bought a house for the groom, I suppose a $50K-$100K wedding isn't that much for the parents to pay for.

Yeah, it seems it is just how the other half quarter eighth sixteenth thirty-second sixty-fourth one twenty-eighth live.
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #51 on: April 21, 2011, 11:51:39 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on April 21, 2011, 10:10:44 AM
Since 230RN replied today, I guess the thread is open for today. ;)

A little follow-up. I was talking to our neighbors, the bride's parents. The bride and groom are due back from St. Thomas, and the parents are going to make them truck all the gifts stacked up in the house back to the kids' place in Birmingham.

Just for fun, I asked the father if the kids had gotten a house yet. He said that the groom's grandfather bought him a house while he was still in law school, so they'll be moving into the groom's house right off the bat. The father alluded to the groom's family being very wealthy, and left it at that.

If a grandfather bought a house for the groom, I suppose a $50K-$100K wedding isn't that much for the parents to pay for.

Must be nice
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #52 on: April 21, 2011, 02:05:42 PM »
Quote from: Pharmacology on April 21, 2011, 11:51:39 AM
Must be nice

Yeah, I'm pretty darn well paid when I'm actually working, but apparently my annual wages is just pocket change to some folks.   ;/
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #53 on: April 21, 2011, 04:55:26 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on April 21, 2011, 02:05:42 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty darn well paid when I'm actually working, but apparently my annual wages is just pocket change to some folks.   ;/

Same here; here I am, working my buns off and my fingers to the bone to get a doctorate, and my salary will make me upper middle class. :\
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #54 on: April 22, 2011, 02:24:18 AM »
Meh, money!=happy. Doesn't preclude it, but it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Lots of miserable rich folks, and it's comforting to know my kids won't need a 24/7 protection detail because I can bankroll a fat ransom.

That said, obviously grinding poverty isn't good either. But I'd prefer solid middle class to uberwealth any day.
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #55 on: April 22, 2011, 04:49:02 AM »
"I've been rich, and I've been poor.  Believe me, honey, rich is better."

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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #56 on: April 22, 2011, 10:11:51 AM »
Quote from: 230RN on April 22, 2011, 04:49:02 AM
"I've been rich, and I've been poor.  Believe me, honey, rich is better."

Pearl Bailey?

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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #57 on: April 22, 2011, 11:30:37 PM »
Quote from: Balog on April 22, 2011, 02:24:18 AM
Meh, money!=happy. Doesn't preclude it, but it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Lots of miserable rich folks, and it's comforting to know my kids won't need a 24/7 protection detail because I can bankroll a fat ransom.

That said, obviously grinding poverty isn't good either. But I'd prefer solid middle class to uberwealth any day.

Very true, very true.
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
« Reply #58 on: April 24, 2011, 10:03:07 AM »
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"I've been rich, and I've been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better."
I've heard that attributed to Samuel P. Chase
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Re: My first time at a wedding like this
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