Anyway, twelve hours after the wedding, the young couple is left to start their lives together and the parents are left to pay the expenses. All the dancing and carrying on becomes a dim memory and finally is totally forgotten. The wedding album is ready many months later and is hardly looked at years later.
As was eluded by the other posts, at what point should we stop reimbursing the bochrim for their wedding costs? Will they have more surplus money while in Kollel then they have now?