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The unexpected toll of being a bridesmaid: ‘We lost our friendship because I couldn’t afford the bachelorette’
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The Independent
Today’s bridesmaids are expected to organize bachelorette trips, chase accommodation payments, maintain color-coded spreadsheets and, on the wedding day itself, sometimes even mediate family drama.
Meanwhile, a domestic destination wedding costs an average of $41,700 and an international destination is closer to $44,000.
I didn’t even speak to her on her actual wedding day.
Yet she decided to have a destination wedding in Florida, when most of us were from Texas.
She canceled the entire bachelorette because we couldn’t afford it and guilt-tripped us for not wanting to celebrate her.