BALDIVIS WEDDING COMRADE

I almost choked on my smoked salmon croissant and freshly squeezed guava juice at breakfast this morning as I read a story in that most sophisticated of newspapers, The Sunday Times (note sarcasm), about a young Russian millionaire who spent $1 Million dollars on his wedding to a local girl.

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Wow a million dollars huh? Must have been awesome, well I'm sure they thought so. They did have very good wine....on the bridal table at least.

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The bridal table had decanted bottles of the 1986 Penfolds Grange Hermitage, worth $2000 each, and said to be the couple's favourite drop.

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That is only the beginning of the cash down toilet and flush moments....................

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Nearly $4000 was spent on the fuel bill to power the generators of the $80,000 marquee while the flower bill topped $60,000.

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As much as I could go on and on about how much good they could have done with a million big ones amongst say the underprivileged of society who I'm sure would enjoy the odd salmon croissant for brekky, I wont. Simply because something else other than the sheer monetary wastefulness of this day has made me real in horror......

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That something else is .....The Menu

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Dinner choices included double-crumbed deep-fried WA camembert with plum sauce for entree, chicken Florentine or peppered beef for main, followed by a local cheese platter.

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Double crumbed WHAT??? With chicken WHAT and peppered WHAT?? Holy crap, a million dollars and the best you could do is resurrect a menu from the Mt Claremont RSL 1967 christmas party. My god!! That is insane and completely .... um ....... I'm momentarily lost for words.....

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I best reign in my criticism or else I may have a visit from the Rusky Mafia, god knows how this dude made his money. At least now we know how he spends it.

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The happy couple.

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