https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/06/05/jill-on-money-marital-money/

After attending just one wedding over the past five years, I have now received four “save the date” nuptial notices for 2024. It seems that surviving a once-in-a-century pandemic seems to have cured many of their disdain for the celebration of unions, which my father once said “saps your savings in exchange for a dirty cake knife!”

Instead of disputing dad’s wedding opinions, let me enter into the record my opinion: Yes, weddings are usually pretty wasteful events (the Knot found that in 2022, couples spent about $5,000 on rings and another $30,000 on the main event), but if they don’t put couples or their families into financial peril, who am I to be a buzz-kill?