Getting married is a big emotional commitment which is underlined by the huge price tag which comes along with the tradition.The average US wedding costs about the price of a new car.Divorce statistics state that half of marriages will not "stick", at least not to each other, and financial woes are at the top of the list of why couples split.
It makes absolutely no sense for a couple to get married and in the process saddle themselves with a mountain of debt and expenses, and especially at a time when they may be thinking of buying a home together and starting a family. Is it better to buy stocks than diamonds?
Spur of the moment marriages are all very well on paper, and for some people they are actually a viable alternative to getting hitched in a traditional manner. For most people they are not appropriate even though there may be a great attraction as well as a much reduced price tag to go with it.
Likewise, rushing to get married in a traditional ceremony is to be avoided as well and especially if it means you have to cut corners on the wedding or rack up debts on your plastic to pay for everything.
It pays to spend some time saving for your occasion, not just as a pair of individuals but as a couple. Getting married is itself the first step in a life of working and living together, and the wedding process, as strenuous and emotionally demanding as it may be is a good test of how a couple will work together because far worse is going to come at them as they go through life.You will bond more as a couple if you work and save together - it will make you feel like you have a stake in the marriage itself, not just the wedding day.
It is an old man’s saying, “Marry in haste, repent at leisure!” which is born from a time when you got married and no matter what, you stayed married - happily ever after simply didn’t come into it! Today, divorce is easy to come by and the incentive and pressure to keep a couple together is not there anymore but, that is not to say that getting divorced is pleasant. Getting divorced is horrible, even when you are lucky enough to have an “amicable divorce” and it is also extremely costly - much more costly than any wedding you can imagine or wish for.
The key to a planning a successful wedding is time and preparation; with that you can arrange for a wonderful day for you both and for your guests, but taking your time will help you in the transition into married life where you will be working and living together as a couple and not as two individuals.Take your time - you have to learn to crawl as a couple before you can run!























