If you're not watching Vanderpump Rules but love reality TV, you should—it's good! I could go into a long defensive argument about how crazy realistic the relationships on it are, but instead I have a bone to pick about something that felt so crazy nonaccurate.
There's a scene in part one of Scheana's wedding (before the face punching and let's-all-clean-up group work) where Lisa Vanderpump comments on how lovely the wedding is and how impressed she is that Scheana pulled it off on a waitress salary. It IS a beautiful wedding and you do see some wheedling and bargain making, but my mind instantly flashed back to a clip of Scheana saying, and I'm paraphrasing, "Well, our budget was $30,000 and now we're at triple that."
OK. Thirty thousand isn't outrageous, but it's hardly an impressively low number that requires applause for its budget-friendliness. And I'll do the math for you: 30 x 3 is 90, as in $90,000! That is A LOT to me. There's chatter on the show about how Scheana had a legal matter settled regarding an accident and the extra income paid her wedding bills, which is awesome in a silver-lining kind of way, but that effectively means that, no, her wedding wasn't done on a waitress salary.
Did anyone else catch that moment during the episode? Did it kind of get your blood boiling just a little bit too?
I'm not knocking Scheana, whom I really like in a reality-TV-watcher kind of way, but as someone who had to work hard to stay within some financial perimeters when planning my own nuptials, it frustrated me.