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rico asked:


If you consider that DeBeer practically lives off engagement diamond rings and creates loads of ads to show us how anything but a diamond is bad and then artifically hike the price.
Wedding planners make a full time living ,caterers the list just goes on.
Ads are shown all over TV,web and radio showing expensive weddings with smiling folks.
Yet apart from a few documentaries no one talks about the cost,the fact it empties the pockets of newly weds etc.
Has the true value of what a wedding is about lost in the commerical money spinner?
It amazes me how so few couples think of plans beyond that day.
2 good points so far.
1)Not many seems to think post wedding which is a cause of break up.
$20k will go a long way to making your inital life happy.
2)”its been my dream” .When you become an adult you should weigh your dreams vs reality.
Say your hubby decides his dream is to be a couch potato for 6 months would you agree?
Even if you do you will get mad after a few months.
But hey its his dream to watch tv 24/7 and get fat for 6 months and he probably lose as much income as you would on a wedding.
Even less so since he actually has to spent on transport,sweat ,eating at work for that period and then you toss all that money on one day which is forgotten by most after that.