How much for the lemon chicken?

Holy hell weddings are expensive.  I have always heard people talking about the massive expense that weddings are but I guess I always thought I would be exempt.  Wrong.  Today, I called about 7 venues in Chicago (granted some I knew would be out of the price range) but I was absolutely shocked at the price of things.  One venue wants to charge $175 a plate for lemon chicken!  Seriously?  It’s lemon and chicken…I could make it for about $5 and it would probably taste better!  One establishment wanted $5/chair for a rental fee…hmmm $5 a chair x 300 people=$1500 just for chairs (and from what I understand, this is cheap)!  The other interesting charge I found was the champagne toast…$4 per person!  Give me some Korbel in the bottle and I will be happy.

Today was a shocker to say the least.  Hopefully it gets better…