When people who have destination weddings get divorced they should reimburse
Summary
A straphanger drops a spicy take: if you throw a destination wedding and later divorce, you should reimburse your guests for their travel costs. She's talking $4,000 flights to Mexico, credit card debt, outfits, plus gifts on top of everything else. Kareem agrees wholeheartedly. The conversation spirals into complaints about Instagram-inflated weddings, the awkwardness of only knowing one person at a ceremony, and yes, the carbon footprint of flying everyone to the same tropical location. The rider was born out of wedlock and calls herself a bastard, explaining her parents stayed together nearly 50 years without marriage. Plot twist: she reveals she's planning her own destination wedding in Egypt. Egypt Air gets a shoutout.
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So, what's your take? When people who had destination weddings get divorced, they should reimburse you for how much you spent on their wedding.
100% agree. Yeah. You go to Mexico, you pay $4,000. You take out a credit card, you buy flights, you pay for accommodation, you get an outfit, and then you get there and you have to buy them a gift.
I would never buy a gift. Well, I know, but then they get annoyed if you don't get—
No, no, no. The gift is my presence. And then they get divorced and then you're like, "Okay, well, I'm still paying off how much it cost me to get there." Yeah.
And it wasn't even a good wedding because I didn't know enough people there. Do you know what I mean? Those are the worst weddings when you only know one person.
My parents have been together for almost 50 years. They never got married. So I, I didn't really grow up thinking that marriage was like the be all and end all. You were born out of wedlock. I was born out of wedlock. Yeah. I'm a bastard.
Damn, that's sick. I think because of the internet now, everybody thinks they have to have like massive Instagrammable weddings. So then it puts pressure on everyone to think they have to outdo their friends and then everybody ends up spending a lot of money in a time where we're in a massive recession on going to like six weddings a year in different parts of the world. The thing about destination weddings is it's like you're all traveling from the same place to go to this place. If they lived in Australia, I would go there maybe for their wedding, but you're all going to Australia together. You're putting such an impact on the climate. Don't bring the climate into you. Yeah, I'm bringing the climate into—
Don't bring the climate into hates destination weddings. Oh, I just realized I'm having a destination wedding.
Are you? Where are you having it? Egypt. It's a direct flight. Egypt Air. Shout out Egypt Air.