Brooklyn Becham's wedding

If I had spent £30k on a wedding I would have kept it to myself knowing how hard up many on GN are. Not in good taste Kandinsky.

Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to cause any upset.
I was just trying to point out that ordinary people spend an awful lot of weddings too.
( We did have free drink all night so that bumped the bill up quite a bit I must say )
Spend whatever you feel comfortable with & can afford. No one else’s business quite honestly.

on weddings.

The photos, especially the Williams sisters, showed that money can’t buy you good taste.

rafichagran

volver

I don't care how much money the Beckhams have and I don't care if they give to charity. I don't care how much the wedding cost and I don't care if Brooklyn doesn't have a job. How that family and any other spend their money is nothing to do with me. They are not oligarchs, they are not in public office, they are not royals holding themselves up as examples to be followed.

All I see is a couple who may have had a rocky marriage in the past but have stuck together for quarter a century, who have four (five?) children whom they seem to love and whom they are proud of. I think we should leave them alone and not criticise them for not doing things the way we want them to.

Totally agree with that.

Me too.

Kandinsky

Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to cause any upset.
I was just trying to point out that ordinary people spend an awful lot of weddings too.
( We did have free drink all night so that bumped the bill up quite a bit I must say )
Spend whatever you feel comfortable with & can afford. No one else’s business quite honestly.

If the wedding is being splashed about the media or exclusive rights have been given to Hello or Vogue or whatever then I think public comments and opinions are part of the package.

Vintagejazz I quite agree.

Not remotely interested in this family.

I must be the only person who hasn’t seen any pictures of this wedding, and didn’t know anything about it until I saw this topic on GN.

Not the only one, I havnt seen any pictures either calendergirl.

Nor me. Don’t read celebrity magazines.

I’ve just taken a quick peek at the Daily Mail pictures. It looked like a lovely wedding (and so it should have been for the money). The sun shone, the drinks flowed, the cleaning crew stood by. The DM helpfully captioned a snap of Ms Pelz Beckham in full and gorgeous gown, veil and tiara with “looking every inch a bride”. The Beckham crew are a good-looking lot, and seem very happy together - the grandparents look well. Victoria was as “enigmatic” as ever, very elegant, not a trace of a bingo wing to be seen. Need I say how incredibly handsome David looked on every photo? Apparently he cried during his speech when he talked about lying in front of the door of the hospital room when Brooklyn was born so that nobody (I assume he meant the press) could get in. And the Williams sister reminded me of Eugenie and Beatrice at whichever royal wedding it was they turned up to as pantomime dames.

So ends the summary for those who don’t want to look.

And I wish them all well.

I had to google for photos

Vintagejazz

Apparently it cost 3 million pounds.

AIBU to n think that is a crazy amount to spend on a wedding, no matter how rich you are?

Probably

But just think of all the people who benefited from this and kept their businesses going.

The wedding business is huge.

This wedding passed me by. I knew nothing of it until I read this thread. Curiosity piqued am now tempted to Google the pictures.
Second thoughts, probably won’t.
All four of our sons were all grown up and working when they married, each of the couples paid for their own wedding. Both sides made a contribution and all were much enjoyed. Two divorced since, hey ho.

I cant be the only person who remembers celebrity weddings when I was a child as just one picture in the paper and no info on what things cost .The whole media hype is what keeps the Beckhams in the high earning bracket they want to be in.IF they didn't want people to be discussing their every move they would keep well out of the limelight.That of course wouldn't be good for cashflow.
Personally I love a good wedding but often the best ones aren't the ones that have mega bucks thrown at them .I haven't seen this one ,didn't watch any of the royal ones and prefer to see people I know in the flesh in pictures .
Not some random celebrity who doesn't ever smile and is such a bad influence on girls with her eating the same meal every day to stay superslim .If it keeps the public amused and sells magazines I dare say it will continue .

Very true paddyann.

Chestnut. Note that the Ramsey's and Beckhams have been family friends for years, they socialise and holiday together!

Its their money to spend as they please

Each to their own I suppose, but to me it's an awful waste of money even thought both sides are minted. I went off to Gretna Green in a £60 home made dress and we bought our first home instead of having a big wedding, no prenup needed there.

Unkind to say they are young so it won't last. I'm sure many on here were even younger and still happily married (myself included)

Coastpath

*Sadly, he is very young and the bride is a few years older - it won’t last. How can it?*

The bride and groom are 27 and 23 respectively.

Posh and Becks were 25 and 24 when they married and have been married 23 years.

Only because she turned a blind eye to his philandering.

So how much money is an acceptable amount to spend on a wedding? Who decides where to draw the line? Most weddings are the highlight of peoples lives, if they spend £30,000 on this massively important celebration is that ok? Or should someone spending that much reduce it, cut out some of their wedding plans and and give the rest to charity? Is £4000 ok? People spend what they can afford. If someone has millions, why shouldn’t they also have the wedding of their dreams without being criticised? It seems the Beckhams are far more involved in charities than most of us here.

I'm probably in the minority, but there's something about these two young and beautiful people getting married that makes me feel happy in these joyless times! The wedding might have been a little vulgar but they were somehow endearing.

Totally bonkers....Cant understand why anyone would be remotely interested in the Beckhams...Total showoffs....