Lmao you must be in the wall street bet sub with that mindset boy

Parents definitely help with some weddings, and even pay for them entirely.
Also you get some of that money back in gifts. So if you can get a credit card with 0% interest for a while that could cover some of it and then you pay it back with the money you got in gifts. But it’s risky

Likely a juvenile. The first year males mostly are the ones that risk spending the winter up north. If it's a bad winter, with frozen ponds and few mice and other small rodents around, they could starve. But if it's a moderate or warm winter, they'll have a priority claim on good territory when the rest migrate north again.

Glad we got married 13 years ago and didn’t break the bank. We had our event in 2009 at Webb Barn in Wethersfield CT. We max spent $12k total for every last need/embellishment. 115 people, catering by a nearby restaurant. We made back what we put in thanks to wedding gifts. At age 25, we felt pretty good about paying for it ourselves and not even noticing it.

That's the one that ate my koi 😢

I know exactly where this is lol (won’t spoil it though)

We looked into and it all seems really good. We were looking at buying not leasing. Unfortunately the break even in my case (approx 10 yrs) is probably longer than I plan living around here. My roof faces perfect direction and we have no trees. I think they are cool, and most of all I would have liked the F-U factor towards the power company.

The awful thing is that they don’t allow homeowners to overproduce if the roof space is available. They try to estimate your last few bills and maybe go slightly over. I think it would help the state situation somewhat if homeowners who had a good roof and were willing, to overproduce to help out the grid.

We had our wedding in warren at the wharf for just 80 people open bar all night and married at a church. I think we did wedding and honeymoon for under 26k in 2020

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Cool picture

What makes him so great? Cause he nocked all the lesser herons off?

It was a beautiful morning..

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We did the Officers Club in Newport. Food and booze for 180 people was 28k. The band was $10k but well worth it. I know some who were closer to $80k at Rosecliffe ect...

Newport drags the average up. We toured one of the places two years ago when I was planning on getting married and to just meet minimums for a wedding under a a hundred people, we were looking at like a 5 hour open bar.

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You just describe perfectly the phenomenon of what's known by academics as the "third place." Historically, this used to be social clubs that no longer exist in recent decades. I forget the exact list of attributes, but the third place involves consistent, low stakes interactions over a defined period of time (just like you described).

I think bumble BFF suffers in that friend dates don't have a lot of forward momentum with a platonic stranger unless you have a non awkward routine established like going to the dog park every sunday.

I did mine under 10k. Didn't use a silly mansion

Super Fun Activities Club or My Social Sports - all good fun and you can meet lots of people!

If I could do it over again I would have also just bought a boat 😂💀.

I was an event planner at the time and knew all the vendors but they charged full market price.

The venue we used is well established in Massachusetts and has been in business at least 40 years. We booked during peak season for off peak prices.

We used the Flower exchange in Boston and built our own centerpieces, invitations, and seating chart (I do not recommend taking on these tasks unless you have an art background which we fortunately had).

To OP's credit, $15k is low for any wedding and basically pennies on the dollar for 250 people. A cute venue that holds 50 - maybe 70 people in a number of US cities -- cute and cozy, not lavish, is like $7k. Then there's still food, flowers, the dress which is like $500 on the lowest end or used, and alcohol. $15k means OP is probably thrifty (see: weddings under 10k subreddit).

But I agree, the wedding industry is out of control and many people here have large families which is so hard to financially accommodate.

I always get a little sad when I read these as I just assume younger people don't have this trouble.

I think Covid did not help. It changed the nature of how we meet and interact with strangers even subconsciously. I find that even among my friends things are much more clique-y than they were 3 years ago. Like I am the periphery of several friend groups and don't really don't get invited to any casual hangs anymore because they whittled down their core groups to 8-10 people or whatever and those same 10 people do all the things together except the occasional big gathering for a birthday or whatever, whereas before they would intermingle more. Hopefully it passes.

Anyway the rest of the advice here seems good. I think you should start from your interests. Find book clubs if you like to read. Maybe grab those 2 friends and start going to pub quiz if you like that. I know it's tough though.

I’ve been thinking of getting solar too but my husband doesn’t want to. I’m wondering if it really works the way the pre presentation say it does. Sound too good to be true.

Lol sounds like a better priority anyways