WOW! I’ll repeat once again…WOW! Have you seen the price of getting married lately. With the increasing wish for people to tie the knot it seems that true to form, everyone is trying to get rich from it.
From reception venues to photographers and florists, just say the word ‘WEDDING’, it’s almost an invitation for the prices to increase anywhere up to triple (don’t laugh, this is what one photographers quoted difference was!).
So what is the benefit of spending that extra $35,000 to $50,000 on that prestige wedding?
Lets think…
1. You get the chance to make these wedding service suppliers wealthier than they were going to be anyway.
2. And the opportunity to put a large hole in yours (or your parents) nest egg.
3. And the chance to cheapen on the type of honeymoon you can go on.
4. You take away the chance for a lesser home loan than you otherwise could have had (assuming you are one of the millions who is lucky enough to have a mortgage at the moment…).
But you do end up with that grand wedding that is the stuff of fairy stories that you were led to believe should be the way two people get married… right?
WHY CAN’T YOU HAVE THAT FAIRY TALE WEDDING without spending the big bucks!?!?
….plus a new car would be a really great way to start off your married life with yes?
When my gorgeous wife to be, Karen, and I resolved that we too were going to get to be part of the nuptial community, we (or rather, she) started off along the way of traditional wedding. When the budget started to get close to the $40,000 mark we both took a step back with our mouths agape and began to rationalise the entire wedding plan thing.
OK! Those individual flower settings were great and the considerable bouquets appeared amazing but why the makers is charging us twice have in the official wedding party by giving them another way to help us.
You know, by the time we sat down and really thought about our wedding and took a completely different perspective on the way we spent our money, we were able to stun our wedding guests with the quality and intimacy of our wedding! And all for less than $7000.
Our cheaper wedding was cheaper in name only!