Our feature outlining different families’ wedding expenses elicited a deluge of feedback. A sampling of letters and some more expense breakdowns
At times, I feel like a tourist in an alternate universe trying to comprehend the mentality of my kallah friends. I’m often baffled. It’s as if overnight, these girls become entitled.
Many kallahs feel that their new title is a synonym with “I deserve.” They’ve reached a milestone and feel like they need to receive. A lot. Shortly after one of my friends got engaged, she changed her screen saver to a poster that read, “Bride wants bride gets.”
I know other kallahs with her attitude, too.
I can only imagine that ever since they were little, these girls dreamed of the day when they would become a kallah. In the beginning, it’s white, puffy dresses on Purim; then they advance to sketches in their high school notebooks.
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