Women who spend more than $20,000 on their wedding are 1.6 times more likely to get divorced than women who spend less than $20,000. If this is disheartening, hold on to your veils because recent studies seem to suggest that these extravagant budgets don’t do much more than heap loads of stress on new couples, with wedding costs inversely correlated with marriage longevity. Forty-five percent go over budget, and a further 23% didn’t even have a budget in the first place. The average cost of a wedding in the US now tops $31,000, and £21,000 for UK brides. Well, it turns out that I’m not a bitter old hag after all – the astronomical price tag of weddings is terrifying, and it’s just the beginning. And, consummate hippie that I am, I wondered about the environmental cost of the innumerable parties that crowd our calendars each summer.Īfter coming home from the expo, I dove into the research. Nonetheless, I wondered about the impact of the sizable financial burden so many couples were so eagerly signing on for. I’ve never been much of a traditionalist when it came to weddings (I opted for a pearl ring instead of a diamond) and granted, I’ve always been of the “less is more” mindset (we had 35 guests, my dress cost $250) but I do understand the excitement surrounding such a happy day. I, too, wanted it to be special, memorable, perfect. ![]() I had a wedding of my own, after all, and I remember well my heady feeling of excitement. The pursuit of perfection was suffocating.Īs I examined a wedding dress which cost more than a year’s rent on my apartment, I wondered if I was just being a grumpy curmudgeon. Photobooths, custom-monogrammed chocolates and a 30-passenger Hummer limo in a violent shade of green. Bronzed and immaculately groomed male strippers advertising extravagant bachelorette parties (“Last ride for the bride!”).
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