Brittany Luce

There's also inflation, which has increased the cost of travel and other expenditures related to weddings over the past five years or so.

The guests can really bear that financial burden, even if in some cases, a destination wedding can actually be cheaper for the couple getting married.

And I've seen some reporting from the New York Times about how some couples are like

charging tickets, like a cover fee for guests to come to the wedding.

We actually interviewed some people like on the street and one of them was a very young person, I believe only like 18 or 19 years old, college freshman.

And they were talking about how they were originally going to be charged $150 to attend

That's so tacky.

Yeah.

When it's just some random stranger that you're seeing on social media, it's like you really, really truly have no idea what these people's financial situation is.

You could be looking at somebody, you know, six generations deep into like family wealth or somebody who's like five figures deep into credit card debt.

You really don't know.

I also, though, have been thinking about like weddings as like a place where economic delusions and economic realities clash.

Like, you know, for people who aren't rich, which is the overwhelming majority of people, it's like one night to kind of like ball out and have the place settings and the fancy cutlery and the dress and the hair and the makeup and all those things that probably are not a part of their daily lives.

But all that comes at a cost.

Right.

And I could see how that could be an attitude that guests might have too.

That is absolutely wild.

But I wonder, why can these expenses be so hard to say no to as a guest?

I do understand that FOMO thing.

Also too, very often, anytime I haven't been able to attend someone's wedding because either I had a work commitment or some other family commitment or it wasn't in the budget, I