Expensive weddings equal a lifetime of happiness…or do they?

Sounds like a ridiculous title for an article, doesn’t it? Not so fast…The average wedding in America now costs $19,000 and guess how much of that money is spent on actually learning how to love each other well - $0.

I was recently watching an episode of the “Life of Luxury” on the Style network. If you’re a man reading this entry, please close up your jaw that just dropped and give me a second to explain. I don’t normally watch the Style network, but as I was aimlessly scrolling through the endless amount of cra….crud on my cable network I came across this show that was focusing on a young woman, an heiress to a huge fortune, getting ready for her wedding.

She said that she is way too busy to plan for a wedding. I can’t imagine what she would be busy with, but she believed that she was, so how can I argue with her. Anyway, she gave the wedding coordinator, who was to make 20% of the total cost of the wedding, two-days to plan her wedding. The first move was to book a private jet ($150,000) to New York City to get all the shopping for the wedding done in one swipe of the credit card. It was breathtaking to watch how much this woman was spending on her wedding. She spent $30,000 on her wedding dress, $50,000 on her cake, $80,000 on her custom made fragrance, and a whopping $350,000 on her wedding invitations being sent to only 300 people! That’s $1,166 per invitation! The invitations must be inscribed on some of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be that expensive.

To put her wedding into perspective, look at it this way…

Custom Fragrance $80,000
Plane ride to New York $150,000
Personal invitations $350,000
Spending absolutely nothing on getting ready for your marriage and ending up divorced in probably a year….priceless.

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