By the end of the year my oldest DD will have stood up for three brides in one year. Not only dress/shoes but specific jewelry, make up, hair, nails etc. Then the events leading up to the wedding, bridal shower, bachelorette TRIP where you have to take off work for three days, pay your way and in at least one case everyone chip in to pay the bride’s way, formal dinner, rehearsal dinner and more I’m sure I’m forgetting. Poor kid is going broke. I know someone here will say she could decline but these are her closest friends, she could but not without some damage to those friendships. A years worth of planning and insane expense for something that will be over in ten minutes. It’s so crazy to me.
I don’t come from the land of formal weddings. I think I’ve been to one in my lifetime so an invitation with a bunch of rules I’d probably toss and send my regrets, maybe a check if it was a niece or nephew. No way am I wearing a dress and heels outside in the summer time, not even for my kids.