14 Thoughts You Have When Your Best Friend Announces Their Engagement

11. Realising How Expensive Weddings Are

You need to actually pay to get married; obviously you'll have to pay for the usual things like the food and venue, but you have to pay to actually be someone's wife. Weddings aren't exactly cheap and the price that you pay for one day could be used as a deposit for a house or for some people, they could buy an actual house with their 'spare no expense' budget. So depending on how well off your friend is, you might be forking out for your own dress, hair and makeup, hotel room, weekend spa break and of course, the bride needs spoiled the entire time with gifts and mementos of her special day...
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