Wedding season is upon us. We are at a time in our lives when our friends are starting to get engaged and get married. Everyone loves the hunky dory bliss of two people in love and saying vows that they will never leave each other even if they get fat, but what a lot of people don't see is the behind the scenes of a wedding.
Most guests just attend and do not think twice about anything that went on to making that day possible. Pinterest has made it so impossible to have the perfect wedding because you keep finding something else that would make it more perfect. According to http://www.costofwedding.com, the average price of a wedding in the United States is now approximately $27,000. That equals out to over two years of rent in Charleston, South Carolina. That is two 2016 Chevy Sparks and some change left over.
The dramatization of weddings is very overplayed. Having a simple ceremony will make you just as married as the blowout wedding costing someone's college tuition. Every little girl believes she will find true love one day. They will get married and live happily ever after, but does she ever dream about the cost of the fancy party? Part of a tradition says that the bride's parents will pay for the wedding, but today it should not be expected. It still should be seen as a loving gift. The girls who wedding dress shop on the popular TV show "Say Yes To The Dress" give girls unrealistic ideas of wedding dresses and budgets. Thousands of dollars for a gown you will wear for only a matter of hours doesn't seem so adequate. Weddings should be about the love and happiness between the two people getting married and the main focus is a marriage. Marriage is super hard and with today's statics showing over half the couples marrying end in divorce. That is very sad. A huge wedding with a lot of costs only to end up with lawyer fees and a broken home. If one is financially able to through a large wedding by all means do so, but if it comes down to taking a loan out, then the wedding should be reevaluated. It is ridiculous how much these vendors are charging people, but they need to provide for their family as well. No one should give up on their dream wedding, but one should always think of the cost of everything.
