Is anyone else turned off by businesses using AI art?

Saw an AI generated poster for a Haunted walk for families in Malahide castle. Was immediately turned off by the poster. The same AI generated slop I'm seeing everywhere. I had to check how much they were charging that they couldn't pay a local artist to design their advertising posters. Low and behold only a mere 82.50 for 2 adults and 2 kids.

Just to mention I'm not an artist and I don't work in design, but would like to stop seeing this AI slop everywhere. I'm at the point now where I'm going to actively avoid any business I see using it.

I just got engaged 💍 And we said we werent going to start planning yet as we would wait to save up money. But how much money do I even need to save?

How much are things like wedding rings, bands, makeup artists, photographers etc? I want to have a rough idea of what Im in for before I actually go contacting suppliers etc.

Anyone who could give me a rough idea of what these things cost (particularly in Donegal) would be ideal. TIA

We wanted a 20-30 person wedding but we it turned out that is too small, so we ended up booking a venue with a 60 minimum. The 60 is roughly 15 friends each, immediate family, and 6-10 places for each set of parents.

My parents want 23 invites in total. 7 aunts and uncles plus 16 friends. We said yes to the aunts and uncles, but no to 16 friends, we could do another 4-6 maybe. They say the 16 can't be cut because it's one friend group, so it's all or nothing.

I know a few of my dad's friends well enough. My mother's friends I barely know, one of them didn't recognise me when I met her last year. And i dont know any of their husbands.

My mother is nearly in tears over it and my dad is cold with me. They think we're treating it like a birthday party instead of a wedding.

Are they being unreasonable, or are we? Neither of us want the list to grow legs with people we dont know or want their, but I also dont want to upset my parents.

Edit : They are not paying for the wedding. They have offered to pay the additional cost per guest , but i am not concerned about this because the gifts would offset the additional cost anyway

Any advice?

1960s estate in Kildare has 3 houses up with the same asking, variation of renovations done (one is visually fully modernised), all 3 bed 1 bath. Smallest is 90sqm the biggest 116spm. Each has a different estate agent. €300k asking. Our absolute max would be €350k.

We would be happy with any of them. More so with the modern one just for our own ease. Will bidding on all three be a silly thing to do?

He got me a surprise which ofc I’m thankful. He bought be underwear which I was running low on. Very cute underwear and I was excited. They started to look quite small. Then I realized they were all XS. I’m not an extra small. I am a small. When i asked why he got me a smaller size. He said it was for motivation. Motivation to lose weight 😭. I want to be in better shape. But not sure if xs is what I envisioned in my gym journey. Great now I feel resentful and don’t want to wear them. Not that I can unless I lose weight 😭😭. Why is he like this? Why he turn something that could have been so cute and romantic to something so mean. 🥲

NOT OOP - this guy should not fuck

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/s/wsavaSlD6

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My (22M) girlfriend (24F) recently got a promotion at her job. I was really happy for her and excited cause it paid a lot and also a huge achievement seeing as she's only in her 20s. She wanted to celebrate by having lunch with 3 of her friends and me at Olive Garden. I was like Cool No Big Deal.

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So on Saturday we started to get ready for lunch. I showered and then put on a normal, casual outfit. Anyways, i just popped in to see how my girlfriend was doing. I thought it was a joke at first, she was wearing this weird dress with dark green and orange triangles and thick black lines outlining them. She has a lot of nice clothes she could've worn but wore this tacky dress? I said jokingly "Woah are you going to an art exhibition or something?" I think she thought i was complimenting her because she just laughed and smiled at me. Whatever i don't wanna be a "controlling" boyfriend that controls what my girlfriend wears because apparently that's abuse. Anyways we walked to Olive Garden and met up with her friends and they immediately started complimenting her saying "Congrats!" and "I love your dress!"

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I was surprised because I thought they would laugh and insult her dress but they did the exact opposite. But you know how girls are like they're superficial. With guys it's different because if i wore an ugly suit they would laugh at me and that's completely fine because we are friends and can banter. We got a table and they were just gossiping and what not then we ordered. A few minutes in eating my girlfriend was drinking this soup when some of it fell on her.

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Her friend rushed to give her napkins to clean herself up and i said AS A JOKE "No need for that (referring to the napkins) the soup can't possibly make the dress uglier than it was before" everyone suddenly went really quiet and i realised oh shit i made a mistake. I could tell my girlfriend was embarrassed so she quickly went to the bathrooms under the guise of cleaning herself up. Her friends got really angry with me and said that dress was important to her because it was her mother's and that i just didn't know how to appreciate good art and i was jealous of my girlfriend because she was more successful than me. What the hell?? I'm happy for my girlfriend not jealous. Anyways, my girlfriend came back from the bathroom we finished up eating then headed home. She's angry at me because i ruined her special lunch and apparently i "embarrassed" her in front of all her friends.

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AITA? It was just a light-hearted joke and i never meant to actually insult her. Please give some advice because she's still angry with me and i don't know what to do.

Rant below.

For me nor the bridesmaids. It's just a bit sad that we can't, we can't even afford a DJ.

I don't mind how they look, I said to them I've curling irons you can just curl your hair down.

I bought each bridesmaid a lipstick and a set of earrings and I just overheard a comment about how they'd have rather I paid for their makeup/hair than give them old woman earrings they will wear once.

It's at least 1.5k for hair and makeup that we just don't have. I wish I could provide. 3 of 4 have higher paying jobs than me or fiance, one has a less paying job and so far she's been the best attitude wise.

---Found in a Facebook group for weddings, this is a long one as there is an update. I am not OOP---

I need help. Am I being overly dramatic?

Posting anonymously because the bride is in this group.

So I'm a bridesmaid is my friend's wedding and she's getting married in 3 weeks...

2 months ago, I informed the bride that since her wedding is 2 hours away, I'd be bringing my fiancee with me because it's a waist of gas to use 2 cars. The bride said my fiancee wasn't allowed to stay at the hotel because she didn't want anyone but the wedding party there while we got ready. My fiancee offered to buy her own room at the hotel and the bride still said no. So instead, my fiancee was going to get ready for her wedding in the car and we'd stay at a different hotel that's cheaper and more affordable for us. Again, bride had an issue with it but seemed to settle.

2 weeks ago, my fiancee's car got rear ended and it was totaled. I texted the bride that due to our situation, fiancee and I would have to drive together to the venue and to our hotel because she doesn't have a car and she isn't insurred on my car so my fiancee cant drive it. The bride read my message but didn't respond. Instead, I got a text from her Mон saying that my fiancee isn't allowed at the venue before the scheduled time and would have to buy an Uber or drive with someone else because we were getting ready at the venue (2 months ago she said we were getting ready at the hotel so fiancee couldn't be there. Her story changed.) My fiancee doesn't know anyone who can drive her cuz we live 2 hours away and we cant afford an Uber or shuttle due to the fact we have our wedding to plan thats next year. I also stated the insurance issue. If anything happens to my car and fiancee is driving it, my insurance won't cover it because she isn't on my insurance. And we've been in 2 rear ending accidents this year already.

MOH said that my fiancee doesn't have a choice. I told her that we'd have to check out of the hotel at 11 am so fiancee won't have anywhere to go and with no car so I had to take her with me. I said "I'm sorry but i'm not leaving my fiancee stranded at a hotel. We need an accommodation or I'll have to pull out of the wedding because I'm not leaving her someplace unknown. She's very uncomfortable with that." And the MOH said, "It's time to woman up, use your brain, and problem solve instead of just give up."

I ignored her after and went to the bride and asked of she'd call me when she was free. The bride read the message and ignored me then I got another text from the Moh saying "You need to respect Bride's boundary on only wanting the wedding party and mothers there." We were respecting it but because life changed for us we had to change plans. The MOH then said, "you should have thought of all of this before you accepted being a bridesmaid"

When the bride asked me (2 years ago) to be a bridesmaid, I still lived close to the bride and hadn't met fiancee yet. Then I met fiancee and moved closer to be with her last year. Basically, because I got a life, I'm being shamed for accepting being a bridesmaid when my life changed over the 2 years she's been engaged.

Anyway, I was left with no option but to let my fiancee drive my car after being told I'm not ALLOWED to cancel on being a bridesmaid... just gotta cross my fingers nothing happens to the car but it's really starting to feel like the bride doesn't want my fiancee there at all and in general. My fiancee is the one who said she felt that way... she feels like the bride is trying to force her to stay home while im.at the wedding even tho I got a plus one... idk... am I overreacting?

I did speak to 3 other people about this and they are all saying the same thing: Bride is jealous of me and my fiancee. She doesn't like that im engaged. She has always been jealous of me.but I never noticed until my fiancee and bff pounted it out...

Image so people see my post...

Edit: The reason my fiancee thinks this brjde is jealous of me is because when I got dumped 2 years ago, the bride was gonna hook me up with the person I was walking down the aisle with. When I met him, he was awful inside and out. I went to the bride and told her "thanks but he isn't my type" and she said "yeah, he isn't anyone's type.".... then why did you try to hook me up with him....???

Update on the Hotel Bridezilla Part 2

Hi everyone... so I'm back with an update!

Thank you to everyone who helped point out that she wasn't a gpod friend... i have autism and it's hard for me to tell who is a true friend and who is using me or jealous.

I did back out of her wedding and I ended up blocking her and removing her from my wedding next year. Thank you for your supportive comments and words and for helping me stand up for myself.

The bride did end up seeing this post and told jer MOH to message me, demanding I take ot down because the bride "looked bad." I refused and started crying when she, the MOH, started saying I was a terrible friend to back out and my fiancee stepped up and said, "No, (bride) is tue terrible friend because she won't be accommodating to a situation that occurred. She's so been bad mouthing my fiancee behind her back to you and the other BM."

So, I couldn't take it and jist blocked them all and removed myself from their group chat and that's that. I do feel.better being out of that relationship because I could tell for.at least a year she was jealous of me and even had to.bring it up to my therpist a few times where she stole the spotlight from me ob my birthday and started kissing a guy who was flirting with me first and more stories.

But yeah, it's been clear she was jist jealous of me.

I'm glad it's over and again thank you all for your support and I now know what type of bride I will NEVER be lol

As I said in the title, I was hit by a car four days ago, I'm okay, but have lots of bruising and have broken my left leg. I'm now in a wheelchair. I know that both the church and the venue are wheelchair accessible, as another guest is an ambulatory wheelchair user, so she may have to use it throughout the day. I obviously will have to use mine as well, I can't move onto crutches from another 5 weeks and that's only if my healing goes as well as expected.

In a phonecall this morning, the bride suggested it would be best if I didn't attend because and I quote "you and *other guest's name* would be stealing all the attention, especially with your cast and bruising. Maybe you just come to the reception and buy a new dress to cover up all that mess"

My bruising will have hopefully gone down by then, but I was already planning on hiring an mua to help me better cover them too. I've already tested the dress I was planning to wear in my wheelchair, only my ankle and foot are visible. I'm still trying to think of ideas to hide it the rest of the cast the best I can, but it's always going to be somewhat visible, especially due to the size of it and how bulky it is.

I have known the bride since we were in pre school, we stayed friends throughout primary, secondary, college and even through being at universities 400+ miles apart. And honestly, if a leg cast and a second wheelchair user is what is going to ruin her wedding and our friendship, I think I'm better off not going and cutting contact.

So far one of main two things I've gotten pushback on, and believe you me I'm getting pushback, is my choice of using fake flowers throughout the wedding. People have teared up??? And near whimpered a plea of no?? When I say I'm not having real flowers in my bouquet. Has anyone else gotten this bizarre reaction?

Then there's the people telling me how I should buy everything on temu, no thank you.

The other main one is guests, not inviting certain relatives due to their abusive behaviour and enabling of that behaviour so much that we are hiring security.

I almost forgot the pushback I got for having a traditional wedding instead of a pub function room just because there's only 50 guests.