AITA? I Bought a Switch 2 with My Honeymoon Funds

With wedding season and tariff season coming at the same time this year, brides, grooms, and bride-grooms all over the United States are feeling added strain on their wedding budgets. Our newly self-proclaimed Style Section writer Jeff Girten sat down with a soon-to-be-bride, "Jenny," to discuss how she's getting clever with her wedding budget.

How long have you been planning your wedding?

"We got engaged about a year ago, but my fiancé Dylan and I've been together for more than five years since our D&D party dissolved and we could take our role play into the daylight. We've talked about what our IRL wedding could look like, hypothetically, for a long time."

And have you seen any noticeable uptick in your wedding expenses this last year?

"Absolutely. Catering, alcohol, the bespoke, pumpkin-orange Cybertruck we commissioned to have whisk us away at the end of the night. You name it, pretty much every part of planning a wedding has gotten more expensive."

Is there something that stands out to you? Something particularly egregious?

"Oh, absolutely. We had a Nintendo Switch 2 on our registry. Originally it was supposed to be three hundred dollars like the Switch 1. Then Nintendo announced it would be four fifty, then the tariffs hit, and then all the pre-orders sold out instantly. Now they're going for an arm and a leg on the secondary market."

Did you get one?

"I did."

How much did you pay?

"I'd rather not say."

Why's that?

"Well, uh, Dylan doesn't know yet. I sort of...reallocated some of our honeymoon fund to pay for it."

How much?

"All of it. And listen, before you go and call me an asshole for 'spending all of our honeyfund' on a Switch 2, I want you to know that I think Dylan and I will both get a lot of use out of it."

I'm not here to judge, but...that feels like something you should maybe run past your fiancé ahead of time.

"You try telling the love of your life that you just spent twenty thousand dollars that your friends and family generously gsve you on an eBay listing from FfejNetrig69. It's hard."

You gave a stranger twenty thousand dollars on eBay for a preorder Nintendo Switch 2?

"You can't put a price on the hundreds of hours of quality time Dylan and I will spend playing games on our Switch 2 by ourselves in separate rooms."

But wouldn't you also spend hundreds of hours of quality time together on your honeymoon?

"Don't get all high and mighty on me. The Italian countryside isn't as great as Dylan makes it out to be. I've read two Yelp reviews!"

I usually refrain from giving advice, but have you thought about cancelling the order and...talking to your fiancé about it first?

"This interview is over."

Reader, as a journalist, I feel obligated to tell you that no amount of hype should ever convince you to pay a 4,500% markup on a gaming console. Especially not one from Nintendo. They'll make more Switch 2s in time, but there can be only one Dylan.