People always think it's crazy to talk about Bitcoin dowries, but the average cost of a US wedding was $35k, in 2024, and she walks away broke.
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We were lucky to get out spending less than $16k. Lots of digging and doing things ourselves, but it was so worth it.
New Jersey costs a whole Bitcoin. 👀
That’s silly.
We left our home state to travel 5 hours driving and host the wedding there. Limits the total number of guests that will come and the area was cheaper. Cheaper but much more beautiful 😊
Got some fantastic photos!
I believe it! 😊
But it's all getting more and more complicated, just to not drop a fortune. Wonder how many couples start out in debt from the wedding.
I know we did to some extent. All paid off now, but if the parents aren’t wealthy, probably almost all of them.
Spending on the wedding is mostly dependent on how much you feel you have to impress the guests.
For example, if you are in a doctor/politician friend circle, the expectations are much higher.
That explains NJ and DC.
We were lucky to marry in Bavaria, where the guests give such generous cash presents, that you often end up making a profit.
And I bet the fact that wives are usually joint-owners of real estate is causing house-price inflation, as she'll want to "store" more of their income in the house, since she owns half.
The unwilligness to simply hand wives hard money in their own name is causing all sorts of financial weirdness.
The average person is fucking retarded.
If I were in NJ, I'd be like,
Sweety, how about you just zap me that whole Bitcoin and I'll make the guests some nice sammiches. 😂
When you control for people who earn orders of magnitude more than the average person, what might the average be then? Also, I am pretty sure the average when I married back in 2015 was literally half that.
Seems to be circa $10k less, for the median. That said, there's been a steady increase since COVID ended and the numbers excluded the honeymoon (and also sometimes the engagement ring).
2015 was much cheaper, but I don't know if that applies in real terms.
Wedding costs are just as much nonsense as the cost of funerals.
i hate it when people add a addidional fee to the most beautiful day of others lives
maybe i'm just annoyed because i'm planning a wedding myself 😅
I freaked out halfway through wedding planning and tried to convince him to elope to Denmark. 😂
But, y'all know me. I'm a total miser. 😂
For the honeymoon, he wanted to fly to New Zealand and I talked him down to a weekend in Franconia. 😂
Which turned out to be smart, cuz I got a terrible stomach flu on the trip and 9 months later gave birth to it. Can't imagine a 14-hour flight with morning sickness.