Bells and Bills: The Price You Paid For Your Wedding

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we asked listeners if they were currently planning a wedding, and if money had become a sticking point. We heard from couples with vastly different ideas of what they wanted to spend, about opinionated parents and in-laws, tips from people who managed to spend less, and one Icelandic wedding planner’s mission to give the gift of a free wedding to a lucky, deserving couple.

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0:00.0	And then the guest list started to balloon.
0:06.4	Attent and porta-potties and lights and chairs and tables.
0:11.0	And I was like, absolutely not.
0:12.7	Immediately, I was just like, we cannot afford this.
0:19.4	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:24.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:28.3	But I need to talk about more.
0:30.9	I may not sail.
0:39.6	So you made a big decision and decided to get married.
0:44.3	But then after that flash of celebration
0:47.9	comes a whole new set of decisions.
0:49.9	What kind of a wedding are you going to have?
0:52.2	And where's the money going to come from to pay for it?
0:55.7	I worked as a wedding planner for five years before
0:58.6	planning my own wedding and knew that I didn't want to blindly follow costly traditions.
1:03.8	I think the whole thing cost is probably about $3,000 or less the no ties with a rule
1:12.0	and choose optional but encourage not to be worn.
1:15.7	We just kind of kept it really simple and I don't want to brag, but I made a profit.
1:20.3	It was such a good day and even my nanny who's in a 90's said it was the best wedding ever.
1:26.4	In DC, you can actually officiate your own wedding.
1:28.9	So it was literally just the two of us and a friend who is a photographer.
1:35.3	The average cost for a wedding in the United States in 2023 is about $29,000.
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