Wedding Season :)

 It's wedding season.  We have a lot of weddings this year as the pandemic produced quite a bit of pent up demand.  My daughter's friends are all getting married as she is in that age group of mid 20's.  

We just got back from a wedding that was held in Sparks, Nevada.  Neither the bride nor groom are from the area.  The only tie to the area is the groom's mother.  Everybody else had to drive 3.5 hours from Sonoma County, where both the bride and groom are from, secure lodging, etc., for the venue that was held at the golf course where the groom's mother lives.  The golf course was out in the middle of nowhere in the high desert.  Scrounging the internet for lodging was in itself a feat as the groom's mother reserved the villas that were located next to the golf course for HER family.  There were no hotels anywhere nearby.  We had to find a VRBO or the like.  Nothing about this wedding was convenient for the guests.  Please, don't ask your guests to drive a minimum of 3.5 hours giving up an entire weekend only to skunk them as far as accommodations.  

The mother of the groom dressed exactly like the bridesmaids right down to the color, cut, and length of the dress.  Sorry, her fake tits and sloppy botox  fillers just made her look like every other Los Angeles 60 year-old woman trying to be 20.  Cheap plastic. 

There's a reason why the groom's mother is twice divorced.

And....we only thought Bridezilla applied only to brides.  

Here's what really happened.  The wedding was held at a location that was not convenient for anybody - except for the mother of the groom.  Sure, it was economical for whomever was planning it.  All they did was shove off the expense of having a wedding that could have been closer to the home of the bride and groom, and more convenient for the guests, to a cheap location where guests had to travel long distances and rack up $$$ in travel expenses to attend.......and then fork over $$$$ for a wedding gift.  

The wedding could have been a simple ceremony on a local beach followed by a couple of taco food trucks with a mariachi band.    But noooooooooooooo the mother of the groom HAD to have it at her shitty I-wanna-be-somebody-but-I'm-not golf course out in the middle of nowhere.

Yup.  Have a wedding that shoves off all the expenses off to the guests.  Sigh.  

I don't even want to touch on the invitation we received to an elopement celebration that is asking for cash only as a gift.  If it's truly an elopement, then why the crass begging for cash at a party after the fact?  Oh....we were not important enough to be invited to the actual elopement event.  The leftover guests are all invited to a brunch 4 hours north in Eureka a month after the fact.  I guess the bride and groom figured they were missing out on a bunch of gifts and cash by omitting us from the actual event and tried to make us feel better by inviting us to a brunch at a later date to make sure they could collect their take.  

Again, why drag us all the way up to Eureka?  Oh.  They really don't want us there.  They just want the cash donation.