Parade Rained On OR Just Bragging?

Hey WB fans!

Just saw this post today and had to share. This WBer feels like everyone with a smaller budget than her is raining on her parade. Some background: This WBer also started a post to share/compare the size and price of WBers engagement rings...

You guessed it! This thread blew up and after 126 posts the moderators shut it down. Read the thread HERE. Since the topic is closed you can continue the conversation here in the comments of this post.

The original post reads:

... but I really need to get this off my chest.
I'm noticing a lot that when women talk about how their E-rings were expensive, or that their budget is kind of high, they're being ridiculed for it.  People say things like "I can't believe you're spending so much on something so silly and impractical" or "That's stupid" and the like.  For example, a gf of mine asked how much my ring was and i told her, that it's somewhere in the ball park of $8000.  Her eyes got really big, and she said "Oh my god.  What in the world are you spending on the wedding?"  I told her we budgeted around $25-30,000.  The next response was "That's so ridiculous ... you can have a wedding for so much less than that."  I don't understand the double standard.  This same girlfriend has a wedding budget of $5000.  I would be ridiculed for being insensitive, materialistic, rude, and condescending (amongst other things) if I told her "There's no way you could have an elegant wedding on just $5000, are you crazy?"  or something similar.
So my questions to you are:
Have any of you with larger budgets or more expensive engagement rings run into this same thing? 
How have you responded?
Why do you think girls with smaller budgets and less elaborate rings are raining on our parade? 
Why is this behavior acceptable?  And why is it completely unacceptable in the other direction?

EDIT: This is not a process thread.  I'm referencing things I've experienced in person, not on FB.

 Original WB Post: http://apps.facebook.com/wedsnap_wedding/forums/topic/75193/might-be-stepping-on-some-wb-toes/

Chime In: How would you answer this WBers questions? What do you think this WBer is all about? Is she trying to just brag about her wedding and throw numbers around? Is she trying to figure out which WBers she wants to be friends with based on their wedding budget opinions?