[thaumasiotes]

There are only two good reasons to do that:

- You earn your living based on social connections to rich people, making the wedding a business expense.

- $250,000 was pocket change that you happened to have on hand.

If you had to save money in order to pay $250K for your wedding, that was a large and obvious mistake.

[icedchai]

Well, my uncle / her dad paid for it. Her dad is very wealthy (likely close to $10M USD net worth.) The sad thing: she got divorced 3 years later.