The Birch Show.

If you have eloped, if you ever eloped, because this is the time of year now, that we start

to get the emails from virtual listeners that are getting married and that are so frustrated

by the whole process that they seriously are starting to consider just taking off, going to Vegas,

doing something in the Bahamas, just get up and go and deal with the ramifications

of it later on yeah let the floors keep the deposit and get out of there and if it was one email that

we got or two emails i got i probably would just sort of blow it off but this is the time of year i guess

because everybody's getting married now and those pressures are intense. People are seriously thinking about taking off.

Isn't it June and October?

Like aren't those big wedding months? Yeah, I think so. So this would be the October round of people who are like, uh-uh. They maybe just went to all the June weddings. Right. And we're like, I don't want to deal with that. So I'm curious if you have, if you eloped, if you were given advice to others,

would you endorse it or would you say it was the biggest mistake of my life? My family was so

pissed that I shouldn't have done it. So elope means you can plan to elope, right? You're taking off.

I mean, for me, a classic elopement is you're leaving and no one really

knows about it. You just take off. You go to Vegas and then when you come back, you say, hey, let's do

something now. But I got to let you know that we got married in Vegas over the weekend or we went to

Mexico or we planned it ourselves, never told you guys about it. And now we're back. Okay. It doesn't mean like, hey, I just met you in a bar at 2 o'clock in the morning. We're getting flights to Vegas and going to go tie the knot. This is the person you are engaged, too. Right. And you can certainly understand why. How much it costs now to get married? $28,800. That's the average from last year.

From last year.

So it's just going up from there.

By 2012, experts are predicting that's going to go to $31,000.

So I can understand financially why you'd want to do it also.

It's a brand new car.

Yeah.

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