The modern American couple starts life with a heavy financial burden: In a big city like Chicago, the average wedding costs between $22,500 and $37,500. Yet in the 1930s, it was cheap, costing around $400. There’s no question that wedding prices are out of control. What went wrong?
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Yahoo Finance: A wedding is one of the most important days of your life. It can also be one of the most expensive, running $28,000 on average, according to some estimates. For those who don’t have that much, there’s a new company out of Norwell, Mass., that could help: Wedding Payment Plan will finance your
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Judy Pomykata was breathless with excitement. She just got the contract of her life. Pomykata is a former event planner whose bridal clients kept asking for something different, like an open bar stocked with candy instead of vodka, scotch, wine and beer. She tried it and fell in love with the concept, reports The Orange
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The Orange County Register: Judy Pomykata was breathless with excitement. She just got the contract of her life. Pomykata is a former event planner whose bridal clients kept asking for something different, like an open bar stocked with candy instead of vodka, scotch, wine and beer. She tried it and fell in love with the
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If you’re thinking about going into the videography business, you’ll want to check out another Videomaker tutorial, How to Start a Wedding Video Business. This video covers a little about equipment, developing a contract, and how to cover a wedding. It really just scratches the service, but it’s a start. Wedding Videographer Style and The
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The wedding day is a special moment in any couples life and it is one that can be quite costly. Put that together with the millions of people that are getting married each year and that makes this a very profitable industry to be in. This is something Patricia Ottoni, the owner of The Goodie
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Weddings are expensive. So are engagement rings and honeymoons and everything else peripherally associated with your nuptials so Valentine’s Jewelry, is trying to help you keep costs down writes WalletPop. The jeweler has teamed up with Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines to put together a really awesome offer. Customers who purchase engagement rings from
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Big fancy wedding cakes are the center of any wedding reception. Unfortunately, they’re expensive, difficult to transport and can be easily be damaged by heat and humidity at outdoor events. One company realized this and figured out a way to profit from it. FunCakes rents fake wedding cakes. Their cake is made of foam, but
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LA Times: As far as the Rev. Darrell Best knows, he has the fastest church in Illinois. His 1942 firetruck is by no means a Ferrari, but it is equipped as a fully functioning chapel. “I’ve had it up to 55 mph,” Best said. “It gets a lot of attention on the highway.” Mechanics from
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CNNMoney.com: Weddings aren’t easy, particularly if you want an event that’s both unique and personal. Just ask Jodell Egbert, who came up with an elegant (and marketable) solution to the problem of getting married in rainy Seattle. Eschewing the traditional white tent, she bought a collection of colorful vintage umbrellas for her guests and then
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