In recent times, the cost of a wedding has sky rocketed. The national average for a wedding is a $27,690. Essentially, for the priviledge of having a one-time wear dress, rubber chicken, fights with your fiance(e), and endless angst, you pay the equivalent of a brand new car and if you're lucky, at the end of it you have pretty pictures and a new husband or wife to show for it!
Can you do the same for $5000? The wedding industry would like you to think you can't! Well guess what? You can, and with less labor than the endeavour brings to mind. The key is use the resources you have at hand and use them ruthlessly. Under no circumstances should the flowers for "your day" cost $6000! Nor should it cost $100 per plate of food. Restaurants would be hard pressed to sell that concept!
Why is it that when the word wedding is tacked onto anything.........the price quadruples? The common concensus is that you get better service for a wedding. I hate to think that if I had a birthday dinner at a banquet hall, I'd receive less service as its not a wedding. The waiters work just as hard, the bar tenders serve the same drinks and the event co-ordinators interface the same way. So why the extra costs? Because brides have dreamt of a certain wedding since childhood. The big poofy dress, massive amounts of flowers, just-so invitations etc. Knowing this, the wedding industry feels no compunction in taking the bride, her family and any other financially liable person for everything they can.
People complain about it, nothing's done about it. So here we go............I'm doing something about it. By hopefully providing the DIY, indie bride with tools to keep her wedding financially sane!!
1 comment:
great read, our wedding is in July 2010 and I loved reading your blog! Made me think maybe we are paying entirley to much for some things, so thank you and your wedding looked beautiful loved the look of the barn, inspiring!
-soon2bMrs.B
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