I Can’t Stop Reading About Weddings Now That Mine is Eight Days Away

You guys.  Seriously.  It might be becoming a problem.  But it seems like these news stories find ME.  I'll be looking for news about the election or about the weather, and BAM. Wedding. I find some stuff that I SHOULD have done, definitely.

Jessica Norgard of Fresno, California and her husband, Isaac Piche, got married back in June.  Their wedding cost around $80,000 . . . but not to them.  They got the entire thing for damn near FREE.

Jessica and Isaac run a video production company, and Jessica spent over six months negotiating trades to get EVERYTHING at her wedding for free. She ended up making barter deals with everyone, offering free promotional videos, commercials, and other production services on everything from her dress, to the food, to the band.  The ONLY money she spent was a $1,000 deposit on her venue.  The other $79,000 worth of stuff was all from barter.

Jessica and Isaac say it's going to take them a year to finish all the videos for the barter deals they made . . . but it was worth it.

The people at Harris Interactive just released the results of a new poll on Americans' feelings toward weddings . . . and it proves one main thing:  No matter WHAT you do for your wedding, a bunch of people are going to hate it.

Here are five of the best stats from the survey . . .

1.  6% of people have skipped a wedding to avoid DRAMA . . . 3% have skipped one because they didn't APPROVE of who their friend or family member was marrying . . . and 1% have skipped one to avoid running into an ex.

2.  84% of people are still cool with the tradition of the bride's father "giving her away" . . . but 16% of people don't like it.

3.  We're pretty split on whether brides should wear white . . . since, you know, barely anyone gets married as a virgin anymore.  54% of people say the bride should wear white . . . 46% say it doesn't matter.

4.  88% of people think destination weddings are RUDE because they put too much of a financial burden on guests.

5.  And 71% of people think if it's one person's second wedding . . . or third, fourth, or fifth wedding . . . the wedding should be more subdued.

So am I going to survive this whole wedding day thing, or not?  Who knows.  At this point I kind of wish it was just over with already.

Marriagely yours,

Behka