Brooklyn Becham's wedding

I thought it was glorious and glitzy and I enjoyed all the pictures etc. Itcheered me up no end. Good luck to them. If you have the money then enjoy spending it.
I would have liked my son to have a big wedding. He didn’t want one. That was his choice.

They have never tried to keep their children out of the public eye. They have made them part of Brand Beckham. One of their sons has modelled for Burberry and they constantly post pictures of them on social media.

volver

I don't care how much money the Beckhams have and I don't care if they give to charity. I don't care how much the wedding cost and I don't care if Brooklyn doesn't have a job. How that family and any other spend their money is nothing to do with me. They are not oligarchs, they are not in public office, they are not royals holding themselves up as examples to be followed.

All I see is a couple who may have had a rocky marriage in the past but have stuck together for quarter a century, who have four (five?) children whom they seem to love and whom they are proud of. I think we should leave them alone and not criticise them for not doing things the way we want them to.

Totally agree with that.

That £3m could have gone for a deposit for a house

Oh, wait a minute .......
I mustn't think like an ordinary person.

Honestly, I hadn’t realised that he was already grown up. Wasn’t he conceived in Brooklyn? A helpful aide memoir I suppose.
I don’t know the names of the other children but they too must be also all grown up. Tempus fugit while I wasn’t paying attention.
Wishing them well of course as I do anyone starting married life but if I were a betting person, wouldn’t put money on them lasting. Let’s hope I am wrong.

Kandinsky

We spent nearly 30k on our daughters wedding & we’re completely average.

Average???? Surely most people don't spend anywhere near that? I know my son's wedding cost a fraction of that.

Well I rather suspect people come on MN to discuss the bringing up of children one of the primary reasons it was set up in the first place. Conversations on parenting are bound to invite judgements from random people as well as advice, to a lesser extent that applies to GN as an offshoot. Famous people who remain circumspect, and they do exist, don't invite either praise or criticism on how they parent. Lets face they have control over whether their children remain private individuals or not. The Beckhams have chosen to expose detailed aspects of their children's lives from birth.

We spent nearly 30k on our daughters wedding & we’re completely average.

JaneJudge

Maybe I have lived in a cave but I was under the impression the Beckham's had kept their children out of the public eye - whilst they were children anyway.

I think they tried.
It's a bit difficult to keep hiding them away when they're 23.

Maybe I have lived in a cave but I was under the impression the Beckham's had kept their children out of the public eye - whilst they were children anyway.

volver

Literally we've had people complaining about how Brooklyn has tried different jobs but hasn't been very good at them!

So glad I'm not rich and famous!

... maybe the lad is just not very bright. Not really his fault, but I think his parents should have, shall we say, made him 'try harder'.

I'm sure he'll mature eventually, but it might be a difficult process because being surrounded by wealth will make it harder to really focus on achieving any goal. There's little incentive.

Which I suppose opens up the wider discussion as to whether children, any children, should be exposed on social media per se by their parents.

Like I said.

Glad I'm not rich and famous, with several children, so that random people on the internet can tell me how to bring them up.

volver

Literally we've had people complaining about how Brooklyn has tried different jobs but hasn't been very good at them!

So glad I'm not rich and famous!

Brooklyn should be able to try, fail or succeed as at many projects as chooses, and as indeed many young people do before they sometimes find their feet. If his parents had made better and wiser choices for him and his siblings then all of that would be known only to close family and friends. My point being children don't have any say in being projected into the limelight, even if it's done in a small way by ordinary people as and when they display personal information about offspring too young to make an informed choice. Maybe one day there will be a child/ren who take it upon themself/ves to sue their parents for infringing their privacy rights.

I didnt pay rent for quite a while which was the support they could offer. They werent in the Beckhams league . I worked in a low paid job and worked my way up etc etc. I am not sure its that different except for the scale of wealth.

Oopsadaisy1

I would never be a Billionaire because I would give so much away, how someone can spend so much on a wedding when there are people living on the breadline and others trying to survive whilst they are being bombed, I just don’t know.
I can’t get my head around it.

Maybe you have a different mindset when you have so much money.

I will never understand Oopsadaisy.

0Giving even £1m doesn't mean much if you have more millions you don't need.

* Coastpath* the hardships and suffering have made me think too about what I do for others. I do give but I could and will do more.

Literally we've had people complaining about how Brooklyn has tried different jobs but hasn't been very good at them!

So glad I'm not rich and famous!

Galaxy Did your parents support you financially, or did you get 'gig' type jobs to see you through.

DD was slow getting her career sorted but did multiple other jobs: waitressing, mystery shopping, copy typing etc etc in the meanwhile to keep herself going.

Casdon ??

I was a bit erratic in my early twenties, and didnt know what I wanted to do but managed to have had a successful career. I am glad my parents had the maturity to 'wait it out' and not interfere. If thats what the Beckhams are doing (and none of us have a clue) then I think there are worse things to do.

Well it was a good opportunity to see David looking gorgeous in a suit. That’s all I can contribute.

To be fair, some people are still in education at 23 these days.

This is going so fast this morning!

My post in answer to M0nica, of course.

Apart from the acting jobs she's had, of course...

maddyone

I agree that it’s their money to spend how they wish, but it’s still ostentatious and vulgar.

I don't know how they managed it but I should imagine some who work in the wedding industry are very happy.