Clark Howard's Tips

Destination weddings get more popular

Sept. 15, 2005

The average wedding today costs $27,000, but a lot of people are going the opposite way and having smaller scaled down weddings in destinations.

It costs almost half what an average wedding costs.

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Did you know that no one had outlandish weddings until the 1970s?

It was reserved mostly for royalty.

But some people are spending up to $100,000 on their wedding. You need money to get started on your married life, so keep that in mind.

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