jmmom
May 8, 2005, 9:49am
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<p>After the COA (“cost of attending” college), we now have the COAW (cost of attending the wedding). Yes, that’s cost of <em>attending</em>, not giving the wedding.</p>
<p><a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111534465917726543,00.html?mod=weekend_journal_primary_hs[/url] ”>http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111534465917726543,00.html?mod=weekend_journal_primary_hs</a></p> ;
<p>But that’s ok, it’s educational.</p>
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…all that luxury is the least the guests can expect. Some of them will have paid for these lavish extras themselves – to the tune of $150 a head. That’s how much the future Mr. and Mrs. Puryear hope to collect from their deeper-pocketed invitees to pay for the August wedding in New York.</p>
<p>“It’s like wedding education for guests,” says Mr. Puryear, a 25-year-old bond trader who plans to foot more than half the total bill himself. “They need to understand the cost.”
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<p>i will encourage Ds to elope!!!</p>