Would you pay $333 to attend a wedding?
Newlyweds Nova and Reemo Styles expected their guests to buy tickets to their wedding.
Nova told her fiancé,
People choose to go to a Beyoncé concert, because they know that they're going to have an experience. Let's put the stress on the guests, and let's sell tickets for a wedding.
Reemo didn't think it was a great idea.
I was like, 'Babe, people aren't going to come.'
People did come, but only 60 out of the 350 they had invited.
Some of the comments:
'I would never spend money on tickets.' 'I don't care.' 'Who do you guys think you are? Jay-Z and Beyoncé?' Nova recalled.
People on social media were less ... polite.
The couple threw in some fun extras for the $333 like a double-decker party bus and a 12-hour adventure in New York City (but that's just traveling ten blocks in New York traffic if we're honest about it).
Nova said they saved in the neighborhood of $70,000 on expenses by charging guests, although 60 guests times $333 is just under $20,000, so I guess we'll just pretend the math works out.
Anyway, here's the happy couple:
I'm all for saving money on a wedding. But I've got an easier road for all you lovebirds out there to take.
My wife and I got married two weeks before Christmas. Every church was already decorated. We asked our church family for non-traditional wedding gifts. One woman made our cake, another made sandwiches for the reception, a bell choir gave us a song during the ceremony, the congregation sang hymns together for special music, and we all laughed and worshipped together through the whole event.
We paid next to nothing for a beautiful, memorable wedding and didn't have to sell tickets or anything.
Just a thought.
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