Don't expect the bride or groom to attend to the details on their day.

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Ed Balls has said responding to the Autumn Statement was like "doing a wedding speech when you don't know either the bride or the groom".

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Regardless, in most cases, the bride can't even legally indulge in her own champagne toast.

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"They have no jobs and their parents can't pay money to the bride's family, " he said.

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There's no doubt Perelman is a man who takes his prenuptials very seriously: He refused to attend the wedding of his eldest son, Josh, because the bride didn't sign a prenup.

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She's already hit a bachelorette weekend in Nashville and plans on a beach getaway for another bride in Florida, but she ran out of vacation days and can't go on a cruise with another close friend and bride-to-be.

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