Actually, most of the simchas I attend are not over the top in the way you imply. In fact, with one recent exception, I can't even remember the last wedding I was at where alcohol was served, other than maybe a bottle of wine on the table. However, they ARE overboard in the number of guests invited. Many parents making weddings these days seem to feel they need to invite just about anyone they have ever spoken to. My wedding, about 15 years ago, at 150 guests, is just about the smallest I've been to in that time. We got married at the late, great Washington Hotel, alav ha'shalom, and they could not have accommodated too many more than that. I'm sure that's why they closed; four and five hundred is merely average these days.
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