Extravagant wedding

SuperBeeBee · August 2009

Check out these pics - specifically, the gift from the groom to the bride.[url]http://6offour.com/blog/weddings/alexei-and-olga-married[/url] It retails for about 200k.

BobLoblaw · August 2009

.........I'm just gonna say it. If that isn't a case of "she married for the money", I don't know what is.

FallinAgain · August 2009

I was going to say, "well, you know he's got something besides good looks..." Bethie beat me.

wingedbride · August 2009

Your screen name really bothers me.Can we discuss that instead?

Kamikaze3 · August 2009

The grooms hair is divine. The car for the bride's gift made me think of Super Sweet Sixteen. Creepy. It is like he is acknowledging he has to buy her love.

tastyburger · August 2009

oh they look sweet together, though. the wedding was so over the top. I can't imagine spending that much on one day (Dom for all the guests all night??) instead of donating to some worthwhile causes, but maybe they do that too and I'm talking completely out of turn.

wingedbride · August 2009

I guess I don't see what the other ones of you are seeing. I think the pictures of him are horribly posed, he is looking awkward, but it seems to me like he has a sweet face. I think she looks made up very well, but I don't think there is a huge difference there.And, it is customary for the groom and bride to buy gifts for eachother. Why is it that since he bought a car, which is obviously reasonable for them, that he is buying her? They look happy.

SarahBethBR · August 2009

The groom looks like he should be headed to his bar mitzvah instead.

kaybeeknits · August 2009

The groom looks like he should be headed to his bar mitzvah instead.My thoughts exactly. When I was originally scanning for the groom, I couldn't find him because he looks about fourteen. I thought he was a family member or something.

Kamikaze3 · August 2009

I guess the car just seemed a little showy. Obviously they can afford it though so maybe the guests didn't think it was weird. I scrolled down and they look in love when they are dancing/kissing. I am just bitter I didn't get a benz.

BobLoblaw · August 2009

Exactly, SB. I honestly thought he was a younger brother or something.

FallinAgain · August 2009

Winged is sweet.Also, giving her the Benz at the wedding screams money AW to me.

wingedbride · August 2009

Anything less than that car as a gift would look cheap at this wedding.

SarahBethBR · August 2009

Also, giving her the Benz at the wedding screams money AW to me. Exactly. By all means, if you're rich, drive a $200k car. But give it to her the next day or something.

tastyburger · August 2009

she looks really young too, but with the advantage of make up. his hair is awkward, but he just looks like a nice Jewish boy to me.

TSD · August 2009

With their names, I assume they are Russian or Georgian. Extravagance like that is customary.

tastyburger · August 2009

it IS AWing to give a car for the wedding in front of the guests. but the whole wedding is AWish. also, I have experienced that type of AWish showy-ness on my rich Jewish cousins' side, with their bar/bat mitzvahs and weddings. they probably would have thought, "finally, a wedding we can understand" had they been invited to that one instead of my family-style (instead of plated) and champagne toast, LOL.

lindsayll · August 2009

I'm in winged's hovercraft. I don't think it's all about the money with these guys. Was the wedding (and the gift) extravagant and showy? Absolutely, but it was pretty elegant and beautiful in its extravagance. That chuppah is gorgeous, and so is her dress.

wingedbride · August 2009

Good point TSD. Seriously, if this is custom and expected, it seems not AWey to me at all. It would be AW for my family and friends, but I assume that this is not at all for this group. They look used to this lifestyle.

TSD · August 2009

It's AW-ish HERE, on AFSB with regular people. It all depends in the circle you run in. If they are of the circle I'm thinking, it's not AW-ish, it's just what you do...not even "American-Jewish Aw-ish-ness", it's not the same...it's a Russian/Georgian thing. My close friend married a Georgian and it is customary in their family to give Cartier watches as the engagment (not even wedding) gift. But not even just from groom to bride, but from SIL/BIL to bride or something like that. All I know is she has two Cartier watches that are ridiculously expensive.

FallinAgain · August 2009

Customary "HEY! Check me out I'm rich!" is still money AWy.

wingedbride · August 2009

why is spending the money you have to spend AW? Now, had they put this on platinum weddings on TV, maybe. But couldn;t someone with no money that just goes to the JOP look at any of our weddings and think we were money AW? It is all a matter of perspective.

CaliopeSpidrman · August 2009

I just want to Flowbee his head.

KristenBtobe · August 2009

He's kind of Weird Al meets Howard Stern. They do seem truly in love.

TSD · August 2009

Fallin, you just don't get it. That's not the thinking behind it. Of course you think that because you don't live like that. It's not even your realm of possibility. They have it and they give. They are very generous. Again, I don't know THESE people, but basing it off what/whom I do know.

tastyburger · August 2009

also, I can't imagine them saying, "Well, we can certainly afford this, but we don't want to look too rich. Let's downgrade." it's their wedding, so I don't see them going, well, Korbel will certainly do, we wouldn't want our friends to think we've money to spend on this sort of thing.

FallinAgain · August 2009

I dn't think anything to do with the actual wedding is all that AWy. But the Mercedes outside the wedding with the ginormous bow says "I want the guests to know I bought her a $200K car." Now, I'm sure some guests were thinking "Pshaw, my bride got a custom Bentley." It's still about letting people know you're rich.

TSD · August 2009

Winged- exactly. If we compared weddings on this board, being from all over the country, some people would totally think money-AW about others and some would look cheap. It all depends on what you're used to, what is "customary" in your circles, area, families, etc. It's different strokes. In some places you can have a nice wedding for undr 5k, that's what's expected, and it's all good. Or a cash bar- apparently, that's the norm in much of the country, but if you did that in NJ, people would be taking cash out of your envelope in the bathroom out of disgust.

FallinAgain · August 2009

No, I don't get it at all. And the super rich people I know are the ones least likely to feel the need to show it off. That may be the difference in old money v. nouveau riche.

TSD · August 2009

It's a beautiful car and a beautiful gift if you can give that sort of thing. Why can't it be about the joy of giving her something so awesome and getting on film the moment of receiving it? To you, maybe a bow around some Le Cruset (sp?) would get the same response and to some, who think that brand of pot is expensive/extravagant, it would be an AW gift, but to you, it's just something you love.

TSD · August 2009

No, I think it's more the difference between the mid-west and Russian culture.

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