The WANT Thread

[G.Irish]

Same deal with wedding's being a waste of money.....you only do it once, so why not ball out within you means?

Because rationally speaking, most people spend irrational money on weddings. It becomes an emotional spend on a lot of fronts so fiscal responsibility often goes out the window.

Then there's the fact that the whole industry built around weddings knows they can put the screws to couples because in the end they're not thinking rationally and will spend the money anyway. Want to rent this hotel space for a conference? $3000. For a wedding? $6000, and you must use our bartenders, chair movers, alcohol, bathroom attendants, seat cushion fluffers, napkin folders, etc.

For the price a lot of people are paying for a wedding they could make a sizable downpayment on a nice ass beach house/condo in the tropics that they could enjoy for the rest of their lives and pass on to their children.

If you can define a budget up front that is reasonable and doesn't require borrowing a bunch of money or emptying out retirement savings to do it, then have that ball-within-your-means wedding. It's just that a lot of people have a really tough time doing that.