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All right, Brian, this next question, this one is from Homer. Homer says,

how do I finance my wedding? Should I save an taxable account, a savings account, or take out a loan?

I don't want my merits to start off on a bad foot financially. I feel like we'd get this a lot.

Folks are getting, we did a show a couple of months ago, and we found that folks are getting married

later in later in life, right? And so one of the considerations that folks have is they're getting

married in their later 20s or early 30s is how are we going to pay for this? And what's the

appropriate way to pay for this? And what's the right mechanism to pay for this? What advice would

you give Homer? First, I want to know if Homer is your real name or if that's just your screen name

because you love the sense, because that's just a unique thing. Because you say we could get this

question all the time, not from Homer's ass. We don't get a lot of hovers as to it. But here's the

thing I think is interesting is that weddings are special. I mean, they are definitely something that

you want. It's a point in life, a transition point, a threshold of your life. But I think you have

to be careful of elevating it because it's one of those things where we will build stuff up so much

in our head. And then you get beyond it and you go, what was that worth it? Why did we? Because

and look, I'm going to let you give your experience sharing a minute, but I don't know if you want to,

how deep you want to go. I'll wear this. But it's weddings are one of those things that look,

I when my wife and I got engaged, her parents, you know, they didn't make a ton of money,

but they were very frugal and good. And their her dad started a custodial account investing a few

hundred, like a hundred bucks a month from like time she was born. I mean, her dad,

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