Zeriel's Journal: Okay, why do people promise things?

Julia's parents promised $1,000 to help with the wedding, unasked-for. I thought, well, this is nice of them. And we planned with that assumption in mind.

Julia called them today, since wedding bills are starting to come due. And her dad told her that, well, he had to discuss it with her mom because they weren't sure about this and that...

Long story short, promise made, we planned around it, poof it's gone.

So where the hell am I gonna get an extra thousand bucks from?

The answer is probably going to be Julia's going-back-to-college fund. Which hurts even more.

That sucks.

[Some Woman]

Is there anything that you haven't bought yet that you can cheap out on? (I have no idea when the wedding is/was, so maybe there's nothing that can be done.)

a reasonable request of your future father-in-law

[rdewald]

If you haven't already, ask him, when he's discussing this with his wife, to kindly include in that discussion the fact that you and their daughter were relying on the money in your planning. It's true, it's not a demand for the money, and it is relevant to their discussion.