Wedding Planning Hell
We encourage you to click on that link to check out the article for yourself. However, we also wanted to give you our own thoughts on the research.
Wedding Planning Hell Prompts More Elopements
One of the key points raised by the research was that six out of ten couples who got married in the past year at least considered eloping. It’s unclear how many of them actually went ahead with an elopement, or downsized to a more intimate wedding. However, it does reflect our own findings regarding the growing trend toward small weddings and elopements, especially among Millennials.
The overriding reason couples consider eloping was the cost and the stress of planning a big wedding. A staggering 64% of the newlyweds participating in that StillWhite study say they were forced to sacrifice certain elements of their wedding in order to reduce the cost of getting married. In fact, 1 in 10 of them actually ended up having to delay the wedding for financial reasons. Some of the areas where couples were most likely to have to make budget cuts were the dress, the guest list and the venue. In short, they had to downsize to a much smaller wedding.
Planning a wedding is already stressful enough. There is a lot of pressure to have the big wedding that society dictates very couple should have. When you add the spiraling cost of actually hosting the wedding it is easy to see how brides and grooms get stuck in wedding planning hell.