JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for July 21, 2022

Who you are is a tightwad

A decent man

Wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings.

(He can get his money back by selling recording rights.)

Saving all your money for Uncle Sam when you die?

You mean the “tradition” of not having to pay for anything, Marcus?

A mooch.

Marcus needs to think about how Nicole would react if she found out. This could lead to a breakup!

Who you are is a man who trusts his future in-law.

The real cost isn’t the wedding as much as it is the reception. The wedding will just involve paying the minister/justice of the peace and renting a big enough hall or church. The real cost is the reception where you have to feed all the guests. Let Nicole’s father pay for the wedding itself while Marcus pays for the reception/after party.

I don’t get why Marcus is being called a “cheapskate”. Marcus (well, Robb) has demonstrated that he is highly intelligent and wise with his finances. The most we’ve ever seen him spend is on Nicole’s engagement ring.

I know Marcus is “blocker” for a living but this is overdoing it a little.

Now,who caters?Jim’s,Pat’s,or Geno’s?

I hope someone talks some sense into Marcus and he pays his own way for a change. Nicole will probably make him see the light.

I wonder if Marcus is aware of the fact that Nicole’s dad was homeless until very recently…and whether that might change his attitude.

A miser like this may not make such a good husband. I had a friend who had to account to her husband if she bought so much as a can of cola. If she went grocery shopping, he had to see the receipt when she got home. I don’t remember her buying anything for herself. He picked out her clothes. She was embarrassed to admit this to anyone.

A wedding can be within Kris’s budget. We ordered a small tiered cake and made matching sheet cakes at home, and our own mints. About $200 for the materials for my wife’s wedding dress; the sewing of it was a gift from a friend of Mom’s (who had years before fitted my first tuxedo for a community theater show, and missed seeing the dress in action because she was in Atlantic City dressing Miss Iowa). Mom, my sister, and friends did the flowers in their weekly craft group. Mom made my sister’s bridesmatron’s dress, the matron of honor made her own. As I noted here yesterday, my side and the ushers just wore our own suits. The rehearsal dinner and afterparty were pretty much homemade food as well (Mom couldn’t give my wife’s uncle the recipe for the “best baked beans [he’d] ever had,” however – she had just mixed in the little bits of BBQ sauce Dad had left in the bottoms of several bottles). The biggest expense was about $300-400 for the photographer.

It is tradition for the groom to pay for the HONEYMOON!!! So where is Marcus taking Nicole ???