They got married at the big Episcopal cathedral in San Francisco and had a reception at the Marines' Memorial Club. My parents got married for about $4,000, but it's still a pretty fancy wedding. We did the math on re-creating my parents' wedding. "I think there has been sort of a runaway wedding inflation.
'love knows no depression,' which I think has been repurposed as 'love knows no recession,' which arguably is not true at all, but - I mean, love may know no recession, but I think weddings definitely do." And the wedding industry pops up, and there they are, ready to help you out and provide, you know, very expensive advice to help you through the process. "So moms, I think, are wanting some advice to help them through this muddle. "But the interesting thing is the wedding industry emerges as this advice industry in a moment in time when, suddenly, your daughter is running off and she's getting married with lipstick and alcohol and a skirt that's knee-length. And there was more money being spent on weddings, and things were becoming a little bit more formal, a little bit more outside the home. "The wedding industry as we know it now sort of emerged in the 1920s, which is interesting because everything was changing culturally. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. She started a website inspired by her experience, and her new book, A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration, focuses on helping newly engaged couples focus a little more on the meaning of marriage, and a little less on the flowers and cake.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Practical Wedding Subtitle Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration Author Meg Keene That's when she knew that keeping her wedding affordable - and sane - was going to take some doing.
"I researched budget options, and the first thing I came across was the $2,000 'budget' invitation package." "I came home two weeks into wedding planning in tears," she tells NPR's Jennifer Ludden. Author Meg Keene certainly did when she started to plan her wedding. Wedding-planning books and blogs can add more pressure than guidance - they make newly engaged couples feel like their weddings must be showstoppers, never mind the bad economy.Įven the hardiest of partners can feel a little lost. "Allocating your money to the places that you care the most about can be really helpful," says author Meg Keene.Ĭouples planning their weddings are forced to make scores of difficult decisions - matching the guest list to the budget, and juggling their own values and the expectations of family and friends. Weddings don't have to be extravagantly expensive to be filled with joy and fun.
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