AKPK DMP Blogger’s Two Cents On Wedding Dinners & Funerals – Part 1

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Having read Adino’s 50 Great Outdoor Wedding Ideas and Themes a few days ago, I feel like writing something about wedding and funeral today.

It’s quite similar to the comment I left at Adino’s blog, just that this is a looooooonger version.

You see, I am a person who is very against wedding ceremonies, wedding dinners and wedding parties. If you have been reading my blog, you may have come across blog posts mentioning how much I abhor attending wedding receptions and dinners.

There are a few whys I hate attending wedding dinners. First off, it’s very time-consuming. I had had a few bad experiences when I was still living in KL that made me decide that it’s enough.

There was once that a wedding dinner started at 9.30 p.m. I arrived before 7 p.m. and I had to wait until 9.30 p.m. for the dinner to start. At that time, I was pissed off, thinking why I would let people waste ‘my precious time’? You know, it’s like ‘using your own time to do the stuff you don’t like‘.

Ya, now I am at the stage of ‘spending my time doing the stuff I like’. Are you ‘using your own time to do the stuff you don’t like’ or are you ‘letting others use your time to do the stuff you dislike’?

Coming back to the wedding I mentioned just now, it’s only a not-close-at-all colleague’s wedding dinner. I don’t even remember his name now!

So, I would only attend wedding dinners of those whom I am very, very close to.

Secondly, it’s money-consuming. A wedding money gift costs between RM60 and RM200, depending how close you are to the bride/bridegroom or the parents of both and also how much ‘face’ you want to give.

It’s fine if there is only a wedding dinner to attend once a month or every few months. But it’s not okay when there are 5 or 6 dinners in a month during peak season! Well, you do the calculations.

To me, a credit-card-debt woman who is now in AKPK debt management program, it’s a financial burden.

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