The cost of weddings are extortionate anyway.

A weddings is only as expensive as you make it. I chose not to have an expensive wedding

Weddings can be as inexpensive as you want them to be. To be honest most people groan when they receive an invite. Do yourselves and your family and friends a huge favour and opt for a low key civil ceremony rather than the typical Irish vanity project. If your relationship is genuine it will last anyway despite what it cost or who was there.

Judging by the hands in the graphic they are waiting a very long time. The average spend seemed astonishingly high until I read who had conducted the survey.

I done the whole big wedding thing first time round…marriage was in trouble within weeks and over within 2 years..this time, when my divorce finally comes through will be a very low key civil affair with our 2 kids and our immediate family…the way it should be :0)

Why would anyone spend that kind of money on one day? The pressure must be immense.

I got married with 13 people there. We had a big evening party. . It lasted 22 years. If I was doing it again I’d do a wedding in the same way except I wouldn’t be near a church. You are just as well married with a small close knit croup of friends. Who needs 150 people most of whom don’t give a dam about you?

Time to start thinking logically folks. As weddings go up marriage goes down. Weddings do not have to cost very much. What kind of wedding did people’s grandparents and great-grandparents have? Go take a look at the photos. Tradition? What tradition?
I know someone who says she would rather receive a summons than a wedding invitation. For the most part they are vanity projects. Look at me everybody. Most are vulgar, vulgar and an attempt to extort presents from those who can scarcely afford them. I find them embarrassing. One has to be polite and smile through the vulgarity on the day.
What’s with this ‘engaged’ concept? Surely that belongs to the days of suing for breach of promise. Either one is married or one is not. I had to smile in the days when they were protesting outside Dunne’s because of importing goods from Sth Africa. It never crossed anyone’s mind that diamond mining in S.A. was much more exploitative. It continues in some countries today. No protesters outside the jewellery shops I notice. One has to have a bigger rock than one’s neighbour.
The same goes for being ‘given away’ as if one were a parcel. This dates from the time when women were perceived as chattels. It is almost unbelievable that there is a website called MRS2be over forty years after we started calling ourselves liberated. I regard it as an insult to be called Mrs followed by my husband’s surname.
Let’s start focusing on the essentials and have a little self respect.