Opulent weddings
Study shows: A quarter of wedding guests cancel because the costs are too high
Many people are happy to be invited to a wedding. Good food and lots of fun often await you – but you quickly forget what a wedding can cost, even as a guest.
Normally you pay next to nothing if you accept an invitation to go out to dinner, for example. Maybe you invest a little in a small gift or flowers as a nice gesture, but the invitation is always worth more than what you bring, except perhaps if it is a larger birthday present. At weddings, however, it is generally the case that the guest almost always has to dig deep into their pockets in order to be able to take part in the celebration.
Although the bride and groom usually spend huge amounts of money on decoration, food, outfits, location, etc., the costs for the guest are no longer a walk in the park. Thanks to social media and the image-driven publicity of private life, the celebration of love has often become an extremely expensive pleasure. Everyone wants to prove, especially online, how special and unique the couple’s love is and what better way to show that in today’s world than with an opulent wedding abroad on a huge estate?
At a wedding, the costs of being a guest add up quite a bit
Although it is a nice event, it means enormous costs for the wedding guests. The initial joy of the invitation can quickly give way as soon as you realize that you will incur costs such as: flight or gas, accommodation, outfit, gift and participation in the bachelor party. The costs are at least in the three-digit range and often enough in the four-digit range, even for a wedding guest.
The payment provider Klarna conducted a study on this topic. They asked 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 whether they had ever canceled a wedding invitation for cost reasons and came to the astonishing conclusion that one in four Germans had already done so. They also asked the participants what budget they should plan for a wedding as a guest: around 30 percent named 250 euros as the maximum amount, while another third set the budget at up to 500 euros. At least three percent consider costs of up to 3,000 euros to be reasonable. The wedding portal “Weddyplace” estimates the average cost for a wedding guest to be 500 euros per person.
It is therefore quite logical that the more opulent and international a couple’s wedding is, the higher the likelihood that some guests simply cannot or do not want to attend.
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Source: Stern
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
