That’s gotta be one of those average vs median type things, yeah? Both because of rampant inequality and because it can’t be normally distributed anyway if nobody’s having negative cost weddings.
(Also I suspect this article is actually a submarine by the wedding industry to normalize very expensive weddings.)
Yeah, I used to work at a resort for wealthy people and they would do shit like, “instead of paying you to rent your entire hotel out for the day, we’re going to pay to refurbish every floor in the building with period accurate wood and you’ll let us use it for free.” And I’m sure there were tax implications to that. But the outliers in the US are huge outliers. Just hundreds of thousands of dollars like it’s nothing.
It makes more and more sense every year. Still, the average cost for a wedding in the US was $38,700 as of 2019
That’s gotta be one of those average vs median type things, yeah? Both because of rampant inequality and because it can’t be normally distributed anyway if nobody’s having negative cost weddings.
(Also I suspect this article is actually a submarine by the wedding industry to normalize very expensive weddings.)
Yeah, I used to work at a resort for wealthy people and they would do shit like, “instead of paying you to rent your entire hotel out for the day, we’re going to pay to refurbish every floor in the building with period accurate wood and you’ll let us use it for free.” And I’m sure there were tax implications to that. But the outliers in the US are huge outliers. Just hundreds of thousands of dollars like it’s nothing.
Damn that’s crazy, but yeah here too probably