His Family Is Pretty Wealthy, But He Won’t Let His Fiancée Ask Them For Money To Help Fund Their Wedding
A young couple is ready to tie the knot and live happily ever after. But something is disrupting their engagement bliss – they can’t agree on how they should pay for their wedding.
A man and his fiancée have been having a pretty big dispute recently. They have been together since his senior year of college, around 4-5 years.
The two are planning on getting married towards the end of 2023 and are beginning to pick out venues and organizing some other wedding details.
He has made it clear to his fiancée that he doesn’t want to be a big part of the wedding planning process.
He felt it should be up to her and a wedding planner.
“I really don’t care where I get married,” he explained. “It could be in City Hall or in Hawaii for all I care.”
He is probably regretting giving his fiancée the reins now though considering what the current problem is.
His fiancée began to research some venues for their special day, but due to the pandemic and its effect on weddings, prices for certain spaces have skyrocketed.
His fiancée has her eyes set on a venue that will now cost $200,000, which I think we can all agree is an absurd amount of money.
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If they want to get married there, they’d had to delay the wedding a couple of months to make sure they could pay for it.
As for their financial situation, this couple makes a decent amount of money independently. This man does not have any student loan debt, but his fiancée does.
Their original plan was for him to put his work salary toward the wedding, while his fiancée saves up to get herself out of student loan debt.
What’s interesting is that he does have a large family trust fund. It is currently being run by his father and uncle, and it is a fairly sizable amount of money.
However, the trust isn’t something he can casually dip into at any time. “The trust is used to control people,” he said. “It has always been since I was a child.”
Using money from the trust fund was always conditional. For example, if he wanted to be anything other than a doctor, he was not allowed to use the trust for school tuition.
When he was 16 and wanted to buy a car, he could use the trust money for it only if he was enrolled in a certain amount of extracurricular activities.
Despite his trust fund situation being very complicated, his fiancée is trying to consider reaching out to the trustee to see if they could use it to pay for their wedding.
He told her no. “She is now upset with me,” he continued.
“I told her that it wasn’t worth it and the strings that come with the money is not something she would want to live with.”
Now, he finds himself arguing about this issue often with his fiancée.
Other Reddit users shared their opinions with the groom, mostly commenting on how ridiculous that venue price is.
“The number of people that posted about their cheap and cheerful weddings was amazing to read,” commented one user.
“I wish more people would consider a simple ceremony with casual food and drink, surrounded by friends that love them.”
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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