Asking others to pay their way into your wedding reception and cover your other personal expenses so that you can start married life debt free...Interesting concept. I can't even come up with a word that does that justice. And the amounts their asking for!
I would just skip it all together, maybe just send a card of congratulations and leave it at that. I imagine I'd lose them as friends? Whatever!
This is one time when I have to say that I hope they get absolutely nothing and all their 'dreams' don't come true.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.