Benjamin Felix
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5,821 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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I mean, we all kind of know this.
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There's a similar perception around the wedding itself.
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I've seen separate from PWL stuff.
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Just in my personal life, I've seen some wild weddings that I've been invited to or attended.
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It's just like, man, it's crazy what people will spend on a wedding.
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There's a 2021 paper in the Journal of Consumer Policy that found that consumers routinely attach elevated importance to wedding products that allows them to excuse excess wedding spending compared to other categories on the basis that it's a once in a lifetime event that requires once in a lifetime spending.
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And what that's resulted in is a two-tiered retail market for products.
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We've heard about this.
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CBC's covered this.
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It's a real thing where wedding items are marked up from their regular non-wedding counterparts.
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So think like floral arrangements for a wedding versus a non-wedding event.
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This begs the big question, which is, is the tendency to spend more on wedding-related items benefiting the future of your relationship?
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Does spending more make for a better wedding?
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Or more importantly, does it make for a better marriage?
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And this is where the findings from this paper are super interesting.
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So they have survey data from over 3000 married survey participants, and they find that after controlling for variables like income demographic and other relationship factors, that the opposite is true.
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Higher engagement ring spending was linked to a greater risk of divorce among men and higher wedding spending was linked to greater risk of divorce among women.
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Wedding-related debt stress might have been one possible mechanism.
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Couples who experienced the lowest divorce rates spent less than $1,000 on their wedding, which is just fascinating.
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Personally, my wedding cost around $300 back in 2013.
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