The Average Wedding

According to one of my wonderful thick-as-a-textbook wedding magazines:

"The average wedding in the United States costs $22,000."

And the average meal for an entire city in Africa costs...

That's an average, folks. That means a lot of people spend a lot more than $22,000 on one day of their life. Let's put this is perspective.

• We know more than a few people who don't make much more than this in one year.
• One year's tuition at Drake, and all the knowledge I got out of that.
• The average studly, brand new, souped up car... costs less than the "average" wedding.
• A really good day on Jeopardy usually nets less than this amount.
• Think what your 401K would look like in 40 years if you invested half of that sum!

This list is cynical and completely outside the happy lines of the wedding psyche, however, it needed to be written. It would be hard to justify spending so much on a wedding, and yet that's the average. As Gavin said, unless he can drive the wedding reception to work every day for a year, that seems a bit much to spend.

Hopefully Hollywood's serial brides are the culprits and their several gajillion dollar weddings are dragging that number into the stratosphere!