Wedding III

So after I had my thoughts on weddings, the Red Eye (one of the most useless papers on earth) ran a timely article and I couldn't help but to take a peak. This article was about the financial burden of attending weddings. They estimate that if you are a guest you will pay between $400 and $800, if you are in the wedding party $700 and $1,200, and if it is a destination wedding $1,500 to $3,000. Not only do the wedding guest pay a ton but an average wedding costs $27,852 with 2.3 million weddings to take place this year. So thats $64,059,600,000, for you non-math majors that just over 64 billion dollars! And that's only the expense for the wedding. Say that the 380 million wedding guests spend $300 a piece (this is probably a low estimate) that total come to $114,000,000,000. Overall that's about 178 billion dollars that will be spent on weddings this year. I think I need to start selling weddings.