find a why, you donate plasma, you do UBER eats, you clean the libray late at night, you sell pickleball paddles on facebook marketplace, you sell security systems or solar on the other side of he US to get the money to get those pics.
It may be that her old roommates or sister went to Barcelona or Paris, so he has to take her whether he has the money or not, he has to find a way.
Tryng to find a nice way to say this, but comments like that sound like a man whose spouse has zero Stanley Cups and forces her to work out and shop in Amazon leggings.