Originally Posted by
James MacMillan
Isn't the Father of the bride supposed to spring for all the wedding expenses? , , ,
For all I know that may be the custom in some communities but the custom with which I am familiar specifies that the groom's expenses, including the rehearsal dinner, the groomsmen's expenses, a gift for the bride, and of course the honeymoon, are all the groom's responsibility.
Of course, grace sometimes requires this custom to yield to the reality of a particular situation. I once attended a wedding in which the bride's family was financially strapped just in getting themselves to the wedding, so the bridal couple assumed all responsibility for the expenses. The groom's father refused any responsibility in the matter, but I think he must have given them a very generous wedding present because they paid off their debt in barely more than a year.
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"No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single." ---- H. L. Mencken
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