With all the talk on the gossip websites being about Kim Kardashian's divorce to her husband, Kris Humphries, I figured I too would jump on the band wagon and give my two cents on the situation. While everyone is angered that she spent so much money on a marriage that only lasted 72 days, I decided to look at things in a more positive light. I work in food service and I know many people that work for catering companies. These catering companies provide bar tenders, servers, cooks, and bussers to different events such as parties and weddings. These people make their living based on how much people want to indulge in things like their weddings. Everyone from the people who baked and designed the cake to the people who shampooed the rug the day before the wedding all benefited from this wedding, and all other weddings. While people may go crazy and spend unbelievable amounts of money on things for “their big day," the silver lining is that the money they are throwing away is going to other people, other businesses, that helps put food in people's mouths and clothes on their backs.
I personally would never spend that much money on a wedding, even if I had crazy amounts of it. I understand why people are mad at her for spending so much money on a wedding that ended so soon, but what people fail to see is people like me (in food service and other types of service jobs) benefited from her mistake.
It's true that this money is not being "wasted," but only in the sense that it's going into the pockets of other billionaires. If Kim Kardashian had chosen local businesses to cater the food or independent designers to make her dresses, then I think this money would really be going to a worthy cause. But the fact of the matter is she chose the most lavish and expensive brand names for her wedding needs. Vera Wang isn't the kind of person that comes to mind when I think of someone who could use some financial support.
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