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It seems as if there is an automatic surcharge as soon as you say the words wedding.

Is 30,000 kind of the norm now?

I joined a subreddit group that was Weddings Under 10K when I first joined it, and then they kept updating the description to eventually be Weddings under 20k by the end of it.

I'm really good at being a bridesmaid.

There was my cousin's wedding, my college besties wedding, my other college besties wedding,

my work besties wedding, my other work besties wedding, and then the wedding of the bestie I met

at a random party

back in my early 20s. It may not be 27 dresses, but six dresses is a lot, too. Being a

bridesmaid is expensive, but it pales in comparison to the actual nuptials. Last year, my husband and I

probably spent, oh, almost 60,000.

Could have been a little bit less, which was way more than we wanted to spend.

Our price ties for our wedding was $100,000.

My husband and I were sitting around, if we just had a baby being like, well,

they got, where did all of our money go?

And the answer is like, to the wedding.

Spending without dress honeymoon minimum of $40,000 in Detroit.

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