Getting married in 2024? Here are some wedding expenses to cut out.
It’s June, statistically the most popular wedding month of the year, followed by September and October. With the wedding season kicking off, it’s up to misanthropic, socially anxious individuals like me to ask the sincere yet selfish question: WHY?! Why are you spending so much money on weddings? Why are you literally throwing away a down payment on a house on a party that over 20% of people won’t even attend, and 50% of people find to be a stressful obligation?
I feel like I have a little bit of authourity to speak about this. Not only am I married, but also I was a wedding DJ and was in a band that played a lot of weddings over the years. Now, I’m not arguing that you should never get married or that you should just go to the courthouse and get married in the same place where drunks argue to get their driver’s licenses back. I got married on a beach in Florida for around $1,200, and by all accounts, it was “fine.” Which, honestly, is the best you can hope for from your overly honest father-in-law. And before you start with, “Oh, his poor wife,” she actually wanted to go to the courthouse rather than spend money on admitting she loved me in front of our friends and family. I had to talk her into the beach wedding.
Useless and Expensive Wedding Expenses
This article lists the most useless and expensive parts of getting married. So, before you start planning your wedding, be warned that the expenses will pile up quickly and ridiculously. Some of the most extravagant costs include elaborate invitations that most guests will discard, expensive wedding cakes that go uneaten, and extravagant floral arrangements that wilt within days. Then there’s specialized transportation like luxury cars or horse-drawn carriages, and the exorbitant costs of a live band when a DJ would suffice.
