And thats why they are broke for taking out loans and spending on things that are temporary.

That's called " Stupidity " 🙄🙄🙄😳😳😳 impress people you don't like FOR WHAT ??

Conceited.

Our wedding was $72 haha. And our honeymoon was $800. Best decision we ever made

@@lesterparker1594 fr, enjoy that $ on urselves.....your true friends and family wont abandon you based on how much you show off

I'm going to the courthouse if I ever marry again. My first wedding was $5k and still too much if you ask me.

You did the best thing!!

Smart move man 🙂

Good for you! Everyone has different things they like. What's your point?

if you can't afford it yes. we spend 55k on are wedding and the same week closed on are 550k house and put down 300k .. yes it's a lot of money but it was well worth all in hard earned money. zero borrowing

And relieved? 😆

she cud have a wedding on mars?

@@franko8572 Cost the same either way. She took cash.

Well done to het

Dave would go ballistic lol.

“Honey, you are broke”

That would be epic he would shut it down

@@Whatorwellsaid21 honey is delusional George was soft on this call

YOU WHAT??!

@Lordeverfall100 $5k is insane

Especially considering what that $500k could do towards buying him & his bride a house. Maybe they could take out a mortgage for a house that is a little more than $500k, like a $1 million or $1.5 million house. If his bride has anywhere near his income, maybe a mortgage payment could work out to 25% of their take home pay. I think that might impress her more than spending $500k for one day.

@@lesterparker1594 $5k should be at the most for most people.

@@cgasucks 5k is a little low, it is supposed to be the best day of your life aside from having kids maybe. What's the point of working hard and making money if you're not going to use it for something fun? Now you can debate that there's better things to spend money on, but if you value your wedding, 5k is pretty low in my opinion. But then again it all depends what you make, some people make 20k a year some people make 200k a year some people make 200 million a year. I would say it depends on what exactly you're spending the money on. If you're going to have a big family come or a lot of friends, $50 for a plate of food for 100 people is already 5k dollars (assuming my mental math is right) yeah that's a lot of money but you're buying food for friends and family which is generally a nice thing to do. I think the ultimate thing is only have a wedding you and your family can afford, which means cash and won't put you too far behind in life.

It depends on how much money you have.

Excellent!

Or put it down on a house....

@@davidfence6939 Heck Yeah!

Great move especially the traveling. No price on traveling memories. We're off to PR soon

@@thefpvlife7785 thats awesome👌

It’s so common n normalized it’s sickening

Same (eloping, not being Indian). Got married at the courthouse, party for family back at the house, spent the rest on a nice vacation we could enjoy more than being stressed out trying to orchestrate a giant wedding. No regrets.

Good on you. People falling for it (like this guy) are what's keeping it normalized.

The funeral shocks me even more. I won’t even be around to celebrate that one!

@@NotKimiRaikkonen I mean if she has a body count from before marriage then a courthouse wedding is more than what she deserves…… Indian people save themselves for marriage so it’s worth it, scientifically and statistically the marriage will last till the end of there is one

@Prey R spot on!

Why did they look down upon y’all?

Show you’re family this video Lol

@@treeroofgrass Indian wedding guests are usually in the hundreds so its frowned upon that they chose a small wedding. Has to do with status.

@@treeroofgrass because it’s against the culture. Indian weddings are known to be big and people compete over the lavishness and size of it.

Thank you

I see you're uncultured

I think you missed the part where he says hes INDIAN. This is part of our culture. You move out when you get married. Probably why we are financially successful. We can buy a home with our new spouse because we were able to save the down payment living at home.

@@canadianjatti what if you’re 50 and no one married you? 😭

@@SummeRain783 They get told who to marry. They don’t actually have to go out and find a mate.

Best response ever!

Boom!!!!

I mean, 2,300$ isnt that bad really. I dont think 5k is that bad, but over that, and I think it starts to become pretty silly.

​@@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist$2300 32 years ago is a huge sum.

If he goes with it, I don't have any sympathy for being broke right after.

Having that kind of reputation is not good on My book

The reputation of being stupid

Yeah, I would rather have a $500k paid for house than a few pictures and maybe a wedding video that I cry when I see them because I realize years later I paid $500k for those 15 pictures and a lousy DVD.

I get cultural rituals. But as George had the caller point out- typically both the families of the bride and groom cover this cost in Indian marriages. How I don't know, and probably don't want to know. Guy is living at home making 90k. Probably a tradition also. Family traditions are Great- Except for when they are harmful or damaging. Christmas for Americans has become harmful and damaging. The vast majority have forgotten what Christmas is about, or never even knew. People have bought into the "appearance" and have neglected the meaning. I have to assume other cultures have similarly done so as well. Imagine spending that 500k on a paid for home, or an initial deposit into a retirement account? Either way, you could be set up for a very prosperous life and able to gift others.

People with family money like that usually do prenups, so that the divorce doesn't cost $1 million.

People like you make the world a better place.

Look at Indian divorce rates lol he is fine

@@harjotsidhu5737 Yea less than 1/100 end in divorce in the US its 6/10 end in divorce

@@rory644 - He is in New Jersey so he is in the US. The girl is getting married for her parents. She will get divorced for herself.

I disagree. People want to celebrate their union with their loved ones. There's no scam about that. Did I spend $500K on my wedding? Nope. But he's 18, making 90K a year, saving hard so he can pay cash for this in about 5 years (at which point, he will be 23). I really don't see the problem here. He's not going into debt, he's saving towards a goal, and he has the means.

that wedding will pay for itself since the guests in these weddings only gift money and gold. Family/relatives will gift significant $$$ such that they'll end up with left over. We're not indian but we also do bigger weddings, and the number of gold jewellery couples receive in weddings is.. significant. It wouldnt work if they were inviting westerners who wants to gift a toaster but among the community - they all know how weddings work

If an Indian ceo like Sundar Pichai (Google) is getting paid millions, I understand how its justifed but how can someone who is living in their parents basement do that?

I'm Indo European, this is the first time I've heard of an Indian wedding. I usually live under a rock though.

half of india is poor as dirt

In America there are many wealthy Indians.

All to save face. So sad how people think.

4th??? I hope you make enough to support them.

@@mikenelson8377 I sure do

Great...what's the point? If someone wants a big expensive wedding , who cares. Cost of wedding has nothing to do with marriage longevity.

@@Viva_La_Vargas you go girl!! Haters gonna hate!

Ours was about $1200 or so. Saved more of the cash to go to Hawaii on an unforgettable honeymoon instead. Going on 10 years of happy marriage and expecting our 3rd child. Honestly looking back we are glad we decided on a simple wedding party. We have friends who went into debt for their weddings and are now divorced, debt still haunting them.

YES!

50 years! Well-done!

That $100 wedding would be 5K or more today.

Same here except my reception was at my mother's house with a potluck dinner! My mother-in-law was NOT happy but we were still in college and moved on with life and hardly thought about the wedding day ever after.

@@traceejohnson290 Yes and minimum wage that year was about $1.60. It would be perfectly reasonable for someone making $90k now to spend 5K on a wedding but not half a million!

‘hors d’oeuvres’

@@createone100 You are right. Thank you.

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

Definitely. That $500K could be better spent. A wedding is not one of them.

im 2 years late. But this dude has zero debt. making $90k take home, 30k in the bank, and was 22. He did not fail at life.

He is just trolling. There is no tradition of going bankrupt on weddings and no one forces you to spend so much money on it. He said himself that there are expectations so he is just trying to showoff and thats that.

The fact that a couch AND an end table costed $200 is unbelievable...bring those prices back 😭

@@bharris4517 yeah, but then again it was hard to make $200 back then with a good hourly wage consider to be $3.10 in 1980.

Congrats on so many years girlfriend ❤

Does everyone in the family pitch in or does it all fall on the woman's side or mans side?

@@lionheart93 all split. But depending on how old school families are, if one family is much richer they might pay

That is absolutely insane. Call me a culturally insensitive American, but permanently damaging your wealth building for a few days of ego boosting is just pathetic. I don't want to insult you personally, but that is just mathematically stupid. If you make $10 million/year, then I could understand, but other than that it's just pathetic and sad.

@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk yeah I don’t think you realize how rich Indian people are in America

@@neelkrishna what is your yearly income?

Call would’ve been 3:12 minutes if Dave was here.

I think Dave is surprisingly tolerant of cultural differences

Sell the wife!

I was just thinking the same 🤣🤣🤣🤣

He'd have had a heart attack. Thank goodness Dave wasn't there when this call came in. It would've been the end of him.

Ridiculous. Beyond absurd.

Such a waste of money.

If you're a billionaire it's fine. But for most people it's absurd.

It is hard to understand cultures, if money is the only that matter why even have a wedding just sign and paper and move on

Wonder how much his daughters weddings cost. I have a feeling they weren't cheap.

@@Engineering2AI People use culture to justify a lot of bad behaviours and decisions. You have to own your decisions and realize you made them because you chose to not because anyone forced you. You're not forced to spend 500k on a wedding when you don't even own a house. Sorry but I come from a very difficult family background who tries to play the culture card on me but it doesn't work because I'm AN ADULT who makes their own decisions.

"I don't care what your culture is" of course you don't lol you're not in the culture nor do you understand it But yeah I'm Nigerian and we have lavish wedding. Weekend long event. We're spending like 40k and we are doing it mild. This guy is doing the absolute most lol but yes bunch of cultures take weddings seriously

Exactly!

you forgot to mention the billion dollar divorce industry. They will be his ultimate demise

He knows how dumb he is being.

I don't have words... This is rediculous....

Yup, even for eastern culture this guy sounds quite off the charts.

That girl is gonna be excited to divorce him.

Perfect example of "lack of communication"

Chances are she's banging his best friend since he has a place of his own and doesn't live with momma.

If parents are worth $50M and covering all cost, then it is not😊

@@jml9550 well did he say his parents were going to cover it? And personally I wouldn’t want it regardless but if that’s their religion, hey. But does that mean everyone in their religion are millionaires?? 🤷‍♀️

@@kelligreer3975 I am just saying. Anyway personally I wouldn’t want such big wedding if i or my parents are mega billionaires. But I am also a man, we could do without weddings. :)

Especially for a person with a $90,000 income if had a $6,000,000+ income it would be ok for him to spend that on a wedding.

That's depressing.

Same. 43 years later. :) We'd been married 35 yrs & I found out that his mom would have paid for us to go to Bahamas to get married. NOW he told me??? As tempting as it would have been, I wanted my dad to walk me down the aisle.

Not necessarily. When it is over, you realize how much stress that you are under with it until it is over.

Agree completely

Family connection is so important and brings such comfort..too many families today aren't close!

Maybe parents want some of their time and space back.

Yeah but he’s getting ready to throw it down the drain

@@truckingmoney485 Are you referring to the money or the post wedding activities?

Parents also paid his student debt. Wish I had parents who were this wise and good with their money.

@Josh indians keep the boys in their houses even after they get married and if they buy a house the parent move in with them.

@Josh why not? Especially if it’s 100x better than some stressed out, overworked, dying “independent man”. How sad that you’re indoctrinated into believing that leaving your parents automatically upgrade you.

one day

@@ryang1589 usually a week long

@@ryang1589 it's a week long thing in this scenario.

@@wkdravenna Tomato, tomATO at this point haha

Absolutely crazy lol

😂😂😂

Its a cultural thing, I find it odd too. I know from experience Greeks (even the guys) go absolutely wild for their weddings, all out DJs, renting mansions/ hotels, buffets, singers, dancers, unlimited alcohol the whole package. Had a Greek friend and he probably spent about 500k or more on his. Told em why don’t you just get married in the backyard or on a beach or something for free, order some pizzas lol. He looked at me like I was a peasant. The culture is loud, proud, and showboating 🤷‍♂️ I don’t hate em for it, but it is hilarious to me.

Exactly. When I read the title that the caller wanted a $500K wedding, I thought to myself that this chick is out of her mind. Imagine my surprise when the caller was a guy.

It's his culture! Stop trying to act like you are better than anyone else. Americans have a history of having zero in savings and buying expensive cars. I guess we can't criticize others.

@@josdomam you’re right it is his culture. It’s a culture of delusion.

@@wittyusername9544 And ours? Most Americans buy expensive cars to impress other people while in debt. So, who are you to judge another culture? Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Respect other cultures

Thanks. Good info.

Are you first Gen?

Thank you. I was a bit offended by his focus and response to the caller. Culture should never be attacked, especially when you know nothing about it.

@@nmekimogloy Nah his response was fine. It's the caller blaming indian culture which is the issue. And I'm someone with an Indian background saying this.

@@niveshproag3761 he said he and his family will be shunned if they don’t have this wedding, that’s the problem so it’s fair to blame culture

Looks like he wants to foot the bill himself well he better start saving it's going to take him 10 years to save enough for that wedding while living with the overbearing parents

But it's not just for a single day. It's for a whole week ;-)

Trying to justify it by saying its a whole week makes you as crazy as him!

I've known plenty of people who are Indian and they definitely don't spend this amount of money on weddings.

@@garethbell22 I was agreeing with Aidan, and sarcastically making fun of justifying financing a half million dollar wedding. (Hence the winky face)

Depends on where you live…$500k won’t even buy a 1000 sq ft condo in Southern California

THIS is an excellent point that should be pinned

I love Indian weddings but using culture and tradition to make a terrible financial decision is a cop out. I agree, he needs to move out asap so he can grow up.

Man I don't see where you guys are getting this from lol Indian weddings are not 500k

@@jsingh6014 Listen carefully to 3:37 "George, have you ever been to an Indian wedding?"

@@ikeacha4153 lol I got to like 15 a year

In the meantime his girlfriend could find a new love ❤️. I don’t see this as being in love . It’s an arrangement.😪😢

DADDY

He said the families usually split it, so he would only need $250k

im 2 years late but he is making $90k take home right out of college. Im sure he plans to get many raises.

He also said he maxed out his 401K (20K) and put a large "chunk" of his salary towards retirement, but can't do the quick math to know if that is 15%.

Actually that's how weddings work in eastern Europe. If you go to a wedding you pay, if it's your wedding you make a little starter fund for your life as a new family. It's so stupid anyway to give presents instead of money on a wedding.

@@laszlobauer5274 this is how Chinese weddings work too, cash is placed in red packets and given to the bride and groom. Often the couple will get back more then the cost of the wedding.

@@laszlobauer5274 i agree. Itd even stupider that couple get in years worth of debt just for their first day of marriage

Yeah, that sounds like co-dependency

I can already tell it's clickbait.

@@zunedog31 did you watch the video? It wasn’t clickbait. They don’t clickbait lol

@@wittyusername9544 Yes, they used his number of 500k which is nowhere near average. 250k is more like it.

@Lordeverfall100 look at Indian divorce rates he will be fine

Probably but he will believe still in his mind that he paid for it. He has no concept of struggling and doing something on his own.

@@harjotsidhu5737 just because a couple doesnt divorce, it doesnt actually mean they are happy. Plenty of miserable people stay married because of expectations or basically being forced to in certain parts of the world.

There is NO WAY his parents will sit back and let him spend 500k. They’re just waiting to take out loans for him

@@littleripper312 well he about to learn lol

He’s probably Indian, and they have week long marriage ceremonies. It’s not a one day/night thing. I’m not saying it’s a prudent idea, but it’s very, very different.

@@ryanaugust yeah I commented before I listened to the rest of the call. He's Indian and it makes sense in that culture, but typically the parents are funding them and usually have set aside sufficient funds for such occasion. If the status is that important to the family then I'd have my parents fund the whole thing

@@isaiahmartinez2061 yeah I'm Nigerian and we have lavish wedding. Weekend long event. We're spending like 40k and we are doing it mild. This guy is doing the absolute most lol but yes bunch of cultures take weddings seriously

It's "My wife and I".

Simplicity at is best.

Mine was also $500

Those are the good ones!

How many years ago was that?

They deserve to stay broke.

@@jairoherrera4040lol except Indians spend this much on weddings every day and are still the wealthiest demographic of the US

This guy is not doing anything financially irresponsible. He is talking about saving, not going into debt.

@@autistic-lutheran-carnivore 😂 “He’s not doing anything financially irresponsible” you’ve got to be kidding. He’s going to waste it on a wedding for status and family reputation. That’s irresponsible.

@@autistic-lutheran-carnivore that may be but where is the passion and love. Everything is treating like business transactions 😖😣

Hopefully it is a single event in your life. However, he lives in the US and statistically no it isn't. More like a three in a lifetime event.

90k take home after taxes

@@manscreations100 still $500k wedding is insanity. Unless parents are loaded and covering all expense.

He might be educated, but not smart.

@@manscreations100 and he's 22 or something.

It is not the potential wife wanting this, it is his parents. So your judgement is completely misplaced. The poor girl does not even know he is planning to ask her.

I suspect both issues are matters of correlation rather than causation--that is, an expensive wedding may indicate a lack of sound financial priorities due to immaturity, while a big wedding may suggest much support from family and friends due to the couple's having good interpersonal skills.

@@bobjacobson858 Yes, that's absolutely it! I just like to share that fun fact because I think it surprises people, and makes people think about what really makes a happy, healthy marriage. I think it is very much that people who have a wedding firmly within their means, but also value their community and friends/family without the attitude of "it's MY day, I'd rather have a fancy vacation for just me and my spouse."

He can spend 50k and still have a great wedding.

🎯

@Prey R I agree, but I don’t think he will go from 500k to 1k. Just trying to find a happy medium for him, so he don’t go broke. Expensive wedding doesn’t mean happy marriage.

There is nothing insane about it… Many Indians in Silicon Valley have net worths way more than that… I am sure his parents would be more than happy to foot the bill. I am not sure what was the point of the call tbh. I am sure he is going to inherit few million dollars and a plus a swanky house in the suburbs!

@@fnamelname7296 he's in NJ, not SV. Move on

@@fnamelname7296 just based on the small fact he said they don’t have close to that networth….

Even then....

Not marriage material with his mindset. RUN from him!

😂🤣😂

Bingo 😂😂😂