[rescue] Sigh

[Kevin Loch]

Are you planning on having kids right away?  If not, I recommend
not getting married right away.  Especially if you're young (in
college).  You'll be surprised how things change over the next 10 years.

KL

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:30:38AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > We'll see how things go.  I was trying to put together a finacial plan
> > > for the coming 9 months, but there are a lot of uncertain things in
> > > it that make it hard to plan well.  For instance, they are talking
> > > about tuition increases for the fall of $500 or more, etc.  And I want
> > > to ask my girl friend to marry me soon, and that will take a lot of
> > > money to have a wedding, but I have no clue what it would actually
> > > be.  And so on.
> >
> > Not necessarily.  We did our ENTIRE thing - wedding, honeymoon, travel,
> > etc, for a total of $3500 (and could have made it cheaper if we'd wanted).
> 
> Ahem.  Student here.  $3500 is a lot of money.  It's more than I've
> spent on my car, and its more than sum of what I've spent on computers
> the past 3 years (probably a lot more than 3 years actually).
> 
> It is not more than what I spend on tuition in a year, though it is
> more than I spend on tuition in a semester.  But I don't remeber ever
> hearing that the groom was expected to pay for the entire wedding
> himself.  Especially if the bride is out of school, living with her
> parents, and working full time (which she isn't, but she probably will
> be in a week or two since her old job wants her back).
> 
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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