{"id":3891,"date":"2011-01-13T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2015-04-05T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T18:04:02","slug":"there-goes-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"There Goes the Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40821215\/ns\/today-today_people\/\">this<\/a> story in part because there&#8217;s a good point to debate over &#8212; whether someone who gets cold feet should be responsible for the cost of a wedding.  I post it in part because you just fucking <i>knew<\/i> Gloria Allred would be involved with this.  I post in part because it links to 13 disastrous weddings.<\/p>\n<p>But I post it mostly because of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dominique Buttitta wanted to get married in style, so she spared no expense on her upcoming nuptials: $30,000 to reserve a banquet hall outside Chicago; $11,000 for flowers and spot lighting; $10,000 for an orchestra; $5,000 on her wedding dress and veil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me or does this sound fucking insane?  $10,000 was about the cost of my entire wedding.  I spent $200 on a string quarter from local high school and another $1000 on a band.  Some of these weddings are simply out of control.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: And while I&#8217;m posting links from overlawyered.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforlegalreform.com\/today-in-legal-reform\/37-ilr-spotlight\/207-family-business-wins-same-lawsuit-twice-now-faces-it-for-the-third-time.html\">this<\/a> is why we need a loser-pays system in this country (or at least each of the 50 states).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post this story in part because there&#8217;s a good point to debate over &#8212; whether someone who gets cold feet should be responsible for the cost of a wedding. I post it in part because you just fucking knew Gloria Allred would be involved with this. I post in part because it links to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There Goes the Bride<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-10L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}