This is an informative post about modern wedding culture. Capitalism is out of control these days and no one should be bankrupting themselves to have a nice wedding. So stop supporting the wedding industry, stop buying outrageously priced engagement rings, stop spending 10k on a dress you’ll only ever wear once. Here are some tips on how you can save money:
The wedding planning book we used years ago when planning our wedding referred to this effect as ‘the wedding mafia’.
FOR THE RECORD the only thing that changes if you order a WEDDING cake at Walmart is that we, the cake decorators, take extra special care to make it look as nice as we can, given our sad assortment of wedding decor. We do not (and cannot) change the price. PLEASE for the love of my sanity INFORM ME if it’s for a wedding because if I find out that I let a wedding cake escape without the extra care I like to put into those, I will feel HORRIBLE.