Wedding Costs

• Since mid-March, Ive written seven articles on frugal wedding tactics. During the research I heard ideas that I can describe only as thinking outside the etiquette book. My favorite? The unclaimed cake slicer.
(MSN Money)
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida - It was 2007, a year littered with news of financial meltdowns and economic collapse. It was also the year Dennis and Sylvia Lai decided to get married.
(PRLog (free press release))
• Lavish weddings featuring guest lists upward of 500 people were seemingly de rigueur in Southern California's Iranian-Jewish community just five years ago.
(Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
• NEW YORK, July 12 (UPI) -- A New York woman said she is throwing a record-setting $250,000 wedding for her dog to benefit the Humane Society of New York.
(United Press International)
• which offers a 10-minute curbside wedding ceremony for the low cost of $99. The van, which comes equipped with a minister, an altar and floral decorations, launched just last week and already has had four pairs of customers, ABC News reported.
(New York Daily News)
• LONDON - Prince Charles got a bit more costly for British taxpayers in the past year, according to palace figures released Friday. The princes annual accounts reveal that Charles received almost 2.2 million pounds ($3.
(YAHOO!)
• If at least half of you didnt raise your hands, youre big fat liars. With the cost of weddings today, and the cost of living rising while the amount of money were earning is shrinking, every dollar counts at your wedding.
(Huffington Post)
• Brides and grooms often dont have any clue how much their wedding is going to cost when they start the planning, regardless of how much thought theyve given to the little details.
(Huffington Post)
• A group of Serbian brides, decked out in wedding gowns and running shoes, gathered in Belgrade to race for the ultimate prize: help paying for the wedding.
(ABC News)
• Everyone knows weddings can be expensive, but $158,187.26 still seems a bit steep. Especially when you consider the couple getting married were both dogs.
(Oregonian)