Sweet Catastrophe

Ryan’s sister Vanessa is engaged! Happy for her, but the bigger news is where she plans to get married. They’ve set the date for next September (I think that was it) in Italy…. So you’d assume they have some tie to Italy, right? Maybe something to do with his family, their past together, anything? Nope. Or maybe this is just a rich family on one side or the other and they can afford it all? Again, nope.

Yes, Vanessa can afford the wedding she wants– she works at a casino and makes great money, but neither his or her family can really all afford to travel to Italy for a wedding. Especially immediate family since they’ll be involved in the wedding plans and will need to be there for a significant amount of time. Plane tickets, hotels, food, travel, not to mention the amount of time everyone would be losing at work with or without vacation pay, and then when you’re traveling outside of the country there are extras you have to add into travel expenses like passports, calling cards, electrical outlet adapters, and you’d certainly want to check out travel insurance online for such a big adventure, ya know?

No one understands her thinking on this. There’s just virtually an unlimited number of places more accessible to everyone that would make for an absolutely beautiful wedding and they could honeymoon in Italy.

And bless his heart, Ryan keeps coming up with possible ways he could get the money and make it happen, but the bottom line is that he’s working on paying student loans right now, how can you really justify spending so much money on his sister’s whim? How can she ask this of people when she knows they can’t afford it??

We’ve actually known about this for a little while and I still just can’t wrap my mind around it…