After He Found Out His Fiancée Spent $10,000 On Her Wedding Dress, He Canceled Their Pricey Honeymoon
Later on in the year, this man and his fiancée will be having their wedding. They did sit down and come up with a conservative budget for their special day.
The wedding is on the smaller side, with only 30 guests invited, and it’s going to be happening on a piece of property owned by a family friend.
He and his fiancée have done everything they can to keep their costs down, so the have been crafting all of the decorations by hand, sent out RSVPs online, and ordered their wedding cake from Costco.
While their wedding day will be as budget-friendly as possible, for a treat, he and his fiancée are splurging on an extremely pricey honeymoon.
“I left my fiancée to buy her wedding dress because I thought she would be mature enough to stay within our budget,” he explained.
“I found out that she spent $10,000 on a dress she will wear once. She argued that it was her dream wedding dress and she had compromised on having an ugly wedding for me.”
“I had no idea she felt that way because she never expressed it. She says she can afford the dress. But we can’t afford the dress. We don’t even have a house yet.”
He thinks her dress was custom-made, so it cannot be returned, and they will never see that $10,000 again.
Realistically, he and his fiancée can’t afford to spend that kind of cash on a dress and their honeymoon.
Ulia Koltyrina – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
In fact, his fiancée spent her entire life savings on the dress, and she only has a couple hundred dollars left to her name.
So, as soon as he found out about the dress, he instantly jumped to cancel their honeymoon. They booked the trip through an agency and purchased insurance, so he only lost out on $500 by canceling.
If he hadn’t rushed to do this, it would have been a lot more money to cancel the trip later on. After his fiancée learned that he canceled their honeymoon, she became furious with him.
She argued that it wasn’t right for him to take it upon himself to do this without asking her first, and if he doesn’t rebook the trip, she’s going to go on it alone regardless.
He thinks he did the correct thing because if he allowed his fiancée to have the dress and the honeymoon, they would absolutely be going into credit card debt.
“The entire wedding party has weighed in, and her friends are hammering me mercilessly about it,” he added.
“Even her dad is mad at me. My friends and family are on my side.”
Do you think he did the right thing?
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