daughter is getting married in June-average price of dresses when shopping all over Ireland was E3000; average price of cakes from reputable cake businesess and I mean average is E650; brides shoes E250--white satin, only wearable for one day; flowers?????? could be E500.
Priest and church use ("rental") for rehearsal/for wedding day; for several meetings before, at night after work, to get help with arranging ceremony/readings etc... a miserly "donation"!!!--I cannot believe one peson only gave E50 book voucher!!! I think sum of E350 is about right.....
Its not that they either ask for it nor seek it, it is just FAIR, despite their meagre salary, as it is extra to what their normal duties are.
Its the rest that annoy me--I hear lots of altar kids turn up as they are supposed to get money!!(who says? we don't need them nor did we ask for them, nor is there space for htem in this little church.(Should we say loudly in advance "no altar kids please?"
We are providing our own musicians which are family and friends whom we will give gifts to in thanks; there is no organist in thie church -just local groups who sing, and whom we wont need. Are we foregetting anything we need to pay for in relation to the church?--and we do NOT begrudge this.