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So. . . my fiance asked me to marry him in May 2011. We have been thinking of how to go through with the ceremony for almost a year now, and the qualms that are presenting themselves are not those that I had anticipated as a child.
The average small, personal, or intimate wedding costs $13,000. Wtf? $13,000 . . . do you know what you can buy with that much money? Let me put this in perspective, brides (and those who would like to prove to brides that they are ridiculous):
#10: A car.
#9:One year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(Annual estimated total cost for most In-State students living on campus)
#8: Your very own fiberglass mastodon. (yes, really.)
#7: You can pay a surrogate mother.
#6: A distressed home.
#5: 4347.8 packages of hot dogs.
#4: Dinner with Lady Gaga
#3: Plastic surgery for a bloodhound
#2: a hovercraft.
#1: Possibly something else intelligent, besides the year of college and maybe the car.
At this point, we are trying to think of ideas that we won’t regret later, like getting impatient and going to the courthouse or Vegas, while still keeping ourselves from throwing away tens of thousands of dollars, a.k.a. our survival.
Possible ideas: Pot luck reception, wedding and reception at a restaurant with nice outside setting for ceremony, or marrying our pets, which doesn’t require a ceremony at all. Sorry, that was the impatience speaking. Help!