Destination Weddings

[Caliga]

My brother just told me he wants to do a destination wedding with his soon-to-be-fiancee.

What do people think about this, have you ever been to (or had) one, etc.?

My initial thought is "fine with me, as long as you're paying."  He confirmed he would be and would probably only be for me and Princesca, his girl's siblings (and not all of them, for some reason), and both sets of parents.

Initial thoughts on the destination are Ireland ( ) or Spain ( ).

Love,
Caliga

[Barrister]

I haven't been to one, or invited.

Wait - he's paying for you to go?  Not what I would have expected.

My thoughts are "it's your wedding, do whatever you want, but don't be offended if people don't go".  That's a big commitment.

I'm somewhat dreading the almost-certain Brazil wedding for my brother, but that's somewhat different circumstances...

[Valmy]

My thoughts are "it's your wedding, do whatever you want, but don't be offended if people don't go".  That's a big commitment.

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[Martinus]

Define a destination wedding.

[jamesww]

Define a destination wedding.

Conspicuous consumption FTW.

[Valmy]

Define a destination wedding.

A wedding that is also a vacation.  Like getting married in the Bahamas when nobody associated with the wedding is from the Bahamas.

[Caliga]

Define a destination wedding.

Yes, what Mongers said.  Basically "Look how badass I am, I can afford to fly everyone to some tropical paradise to witness me get married."

My brother is expecting to lose his (albeit well-paying) job soon because he works for T-Mobile and alot of shit is going to be eliminated in the merger with AT&T.  However, his girlfriend is a chemical engineer for du Pont so even if he gets laid off and can't find something in the immediate future they'll be ok.

[Caliga]

My thoughts are "it's your wedding, do whatever you want, but don't be offended if people don't go".  That's a big commitment.

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That was basically the first thing I said to him, and his reply was "I'm good with that."

He cares even less about what people think of him than I do, which is saying a lot given how little I care.

[derspiess]

Between me and my two best friends, all of ours have been destination weddings.  Mine was in Buenos Aires and the other two were on a Caribbean cruise and Vegas.  We had a few friends/family fly to Argentina for ours, the cruise was just my wife, me, and the couple getting married, and Vegas had a fair number of people fly out since it was fairly cheap.

When I compare any of the three to my brothers' bland, generic weddings I'm definitely glad we decided to do the destination thing for ours.

[Valmy]

He cares even less about what people think of him than I do, which is saying a lot given how little I care.

How come whenever you say something like this you always put a little smily face at the end?

[Caliga]

Between me and my two best friends, all of ours have been destination weddings.  Mine was in Buenos Aires and the other two were on a Caribbean cruise and Vegas.  We had a few friends/family fly to Argentina for ours, the cruise was just my wife, me, and the couple getting married, and Vegas had a fair number of people fly out since it was fairly cheap.

Does yours really count?  I mean, your wife is from there so presumably her family was all there, right?

By that standard I had a destination wedding, too.

[Slargos]

Define a destination wedding.

Yes, what Mongers said.  Basically "Look how badass I am, I can afford to fly everyone to some tropical paradise to witness me get married."

My brother is expecting to lose his (albeit well-paying) job soon because he works for T-Mobile and alot of shit is going to be eliminated in the merger with AT&T.  However, his girlfriend is a chemical engineer for du Pont so even if he gets laid off and can't find something in the immediate future they'll be ok.

I would assume it's more of "Let's do something special for our wedding."

My sister has this dream about getting married in Hawaii, and I think it's a splendid idea. Of course, they're not well-to-do by any stretch even if they're both gainfully employed so it's probably going to be a small wedding party. However, I say go for it: You're only supposed to get married once. I'll happily help them a bit along the way.

[Caliga]

How come whenever you say something like this you always put a little smily face at the end?

I put a smiley face at the end of most of my posts.  It's sort of becoming a schtick of mine.  I got bored with the tits schtick so I replaced it with some others, such as signing off with a smiley face.  I was kind of inspired to do it by Arky who used to sign off with a mean face because "people tell me I have that expression a lot in real life".  In real life I'm like a Smiling (Laughing) Buddha figure.

[Valmy]

I put a smiley face at the end of most of my posts.  It's sort of becoming a schtick of mine.  I got bored with the tits schtick so I replaced it with some others, such as signing off with a smiley face.  I was kind of inspired to do it by Arky who used to sign off with a mean face because "people tell me I have that expression a lot in real life".  In real life I'm like a Smiling (Laughing) Buddha figure.

Ah gotcha.

[Caliga]

However, I say go for it: You're only supposed to get married once. I'll happily help them a bit along the way.

Cool, I'll let my brother know a random Scandinavian racist dude is going to help out the cost of his wedding.