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Being Rich Makes Wedding Planning Easy
August 4, 2007
Did you know that I consider it my job to read the gossip rags for all of you? Oh, I’m not talking about US Weekly and Star and People. No, I’m talking about the online gossip brought to the Internet by the corporation Gawker Media. One of their newer properties, Jezebel, recently had a guest post from a guy who says: Planning a Wedding is No Big Deal.
Admission: I’ve done no wedding planning whatsoever. Well, that’s a lie. I’ve made a guest list. That counts as planning right? So, even though I’ve done no wedding planning, I have read Wedding Bee. And I do know that having a wedding on a budget is more complicated than just walking into a bunch of ballrooms and choosing the one that you want.
So, why was I so confused by the writer’s easy-breezy approach to wedding planning?
We’ve dealt with the whole thing ourselves, with no hired-gun consultant overseeing it and hardly any logistical input from either set of parents (though they are helping to foot some of the bill, which FYI is coming in just under the national average of $37,000). And we’re not doing some radically scaled-down anti-wedding, either — we’re having a Saturday night party in Washington, D.C., with more than 120 guests, a live band, plenty of flowers, etc.
Oh, that’s why. Yeah, I’d be stress-free too if I were dropping over $30,000 on a party for 120 people. I could freaking hire a band of elephants to carry me down the aisle on their trunks if I had that much money. Way to show us not-so-wealthy people that we’re totally overthinking EVERYTHING.
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