Wedding planning is a funny thing. Some people choose to go big, some small, some elope, others welcome the opportunity to gather family and friends.
No matter how you choose to enter matrimony, though, the one constant is money. I knew going in that weddings cost, but until you’ve worked on planning one, you can’t appreciate just how much.
The big costs are easy to indentify, dress, flowers, music, food, drink, etc... But there are so many more small costs you forget to take into consideration. I’m lucky enough to have fantastic support family and future family, but I can’t imagine not having that. For me, the most important aspect of the day, besides getting to say I do to the best person I’ve ever met, is getting to share it with my family and friends and that requires money.
As I pondered that thought, I began to wonder whether there are people actually postponing their weddings due to the economy. What if the future bride or groom, or brides parents lost their jobs? Or, what if there wasn’t a lot of money to start with and now there’s just not enough to pay for even the basics of a wedding.
The economy is starting to affect aspects of life I never would have imagined in a million years, and the longer it goes on, the more parts of our lives it will affect. I saw an idea a journalist was working on that revolved around finding couples who were planning to have a baby but holding back due to the economy. I can’t imagine planning to start a family and then deciding to hold off. That has to be a major downer, because that’s just an exciting time in life.
I know there are too many effects of what’s happening right now to even begin to explore, and I’m way off topic from where I started, but I sure do hope we start to see some positive economic signals by the end of the year.
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