Weddings

Weddings are great and wonderful occasions. Who doesn’t like the celebration of two people in love? Broke people. That’s who. Is it worth it though?

Most times when people hear the word wedding they think a number of things: “How nice!”, “Why am I still single?”, and “$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$“. Red because it’s expenses, expenses, expenses. The people that probably incur the most expenses are the ones funding the wedding. Everyone attending the wedding also spends a fair amount of money in plane tickets (if applicable), new clothing, etc. etc.

It’s my brother is getting married. I know he doesn’t care much on what gift I get him however it’s just not fun being able to only afford one of the lowest priced items in his registry at Crate & Barrel. The other part is I’m splitting the gifts with my girlfriend.

$39.99 (item price) + $11.37 (taxes and shipping) = $51.56 Not bad so far.

I also decided to pick up some “Just Married’ flip-flops because I think they’re downright cool. These are normal flip-flops except they have “Just Married” imprinted in the soles so when you walk on the beach they leave the imprints behind. FYI they’ll be honeymooning in places with lots of beaches.

$4.99 (White for her) + $4.99 (Black for him) + $12.02 (insane shipping and handling charge) = $22.00 Personally I think they threw in the $.02 so they could have easy number accounting.

So far, not that bad. It’s a wedding right?

Then here comes the tuxedo. The shop where my brother is having it done is charging $130 per rental for all the groomsmen.

I haven’t paid for the tux yet so I don’t know if taxes are applicable.

Parking in manhattan for that day. $20 for the morning ceremony, I’m guessing it’ll be another $20 for the reception parking unless they validate.

It’s a lot of money for a person in my standing, but it’s okay. My point is, weddings, like christmas, valentine’s day, promote irrational spending. I wouldn’t normally spend this much money in a given week. My expenses per week are probably about $100 tops.