At a certain age, the people around us will get married again and again. As relatives and friends, we are sure to attend the wedding, send some gifts, gift money ah, this seems to have become the Chinese characteristics of young people complain on the Internet. And today, let's see, the British sister-in-law, because of attending a friend's wedding, made herself bankrupt. Didn't you say foreigners don't send anything of great value to the wedding? How could it go bankrupt? Let's take a look at it in detail.
sorry! But I'm poor! You're married. Don't call me.
Ms. Georgina Childs, a 30-year-old PR account manager from Woodford, UK, is reasonably well paid, but recently owed £2000 in credit card debt because of her friend's marriage.
Georgina, a friend who likes to make friends, has been getting married since about 2014. At first she loved to go to weddings, especially pre-wedding singles parties. She would wear a carefully chosen dress and bring blessings and gifts to everyone's wedding.
Many weddings abroad are guests at their own expense, such as accommodation, fares and so on. In fact, it seems that most of these in China are at their own expense.
At first, Georgina enjoyed the wedding atmosphere, feeling like a pink bubble soaked in love. But as more people get married, Georgina has attended 20 weddings and 12 bachelor parties in the last four years, all in Spain, France, Italy, or the UK. It's a long run.
The gift money alone is fine, but Georgina is a delicate girl, and her friends' weddings are held in high-end places, which means she can't dress too simply and casually.
So, tuxedo, bag, shoes, jewelry, all buy, you know, if you add to the wedding gift, gifts, as well as the fare, accommodation, etc., that is a big expense.
Moreover, Georgina's friends basically knew each other, so the same dress attended too many times, and then started a new round of shopping. In this way, over the past four years, Georgina has spent more than 12000 pounds to attend the wedding!
From the very beginning, the joy of attending the wedding slowly turned into anxiety, and then she began paying for the wedding hotel with her credit card, which now owes more than 2000 pounds.
Georgina is the type of person who doesn't say "No", and although she panics every time she receives an invitation, she can't say that she refuses to attend a wedding because she doesn't have the money.
"I bought a 250-pound dress for the wedding, only once," she said.
And those guests pay their own overseas wedding is the worst, mid-term overseas wedding, including road expenses, accommodation and their own clothing and friends' gift fees, Georgina spent a total of nearly 800 pounds!
In addition to spending money, overseas weddings also spent Georgina's annual leave. "in order to attend the wedding, I had to take time off. I had only 12 days of annual leave a year, and it was almost all over."
After spending time off and withholding wages, she suddenly discovered that her life was getting worse and worse, so she chose to rent a dress, order cheap accommodation, and be less generous with gifts. "I'm starting to choose the cheapest gift on the gift list, and once I just gave someone a candlestick."
But even so, she still feels very poor, now unable to pay the rent she has moved back to her parents' home, Georgina has had enough of the present life, she decided to attend a maximum of one or two weddings a year will suffice.
Hope Georgina can hard heart, learn to refuse.