$$$ = Love?
Here's an excerpt from a very interesting article:According to a new "American Weddings" study conducted by The Fairchild Bridal Group, the average couple walks down the aisle dragging a $26,327 price tag. To put things in perspective, the U.S. wedding industry generated $125 billion in 2005, about the same amount as Ireland's GDP.
Here's an article that my friend, Pete, wrote. I told him this is his big break and that he'll forget about me when he makes his millions.
posted by Mercy Now @ 8:48 PM
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I'd love to see a correlation between how much is spent on the wedding, and how long the marriage lasts. I'm guessing that blowing the bank on the nuptials doesn't mean they'll stick.
$30k/car times 2 = $60k + $26k = $86k for the first few years of marriage = happiness and love, at least that's what we are told by the marketers. If the more we spend the better our lives, then the divorce rate should go down but such is not the case even among Christians. This then means how much are we being influenced by our culture rather than the other way around?
We are led to believe that money solves all our problems which includes divorce. Such, however, is not the case. At the same time tho, the number one reason for divorce is not sex but money.
Ok, I do not have a study to point to as far as the number one reason for divorce but heard it through a couple counselors who got them from some studies.
As far as money solving our problems, is it not blatantly obvious in commercials, ads in magazines, billboards, radio? Ads by De Beers that a guy should spend 2 months salary on an engagment ring or spend money on a pair of $100 jeans by Guess.
It's like if you don't live like the Jones (drinking Starbucks daily, driving SUVs, go on your annual ski vacations) then you haven't made it in life.
Do you not think that we live in a very materialistic culture where we have more junks than we know what to do with yet we go and buy more junk? We think that buying more things will make us happy.
I don't know the source, but my wife & I were informed that sex is something like #4 on the list of reasons for divorce. Money was first, and I can't remember the other factors.....there are probably any number of books by guys like H. Norman Wright that will give a credible piece of data, though.
Well said on the car issue as well, Michael. One can save a lot of stress in marriage by enjoying an older vehicle longer. And hey--don't the guys who race point out that an engine only becomes really good after 50,000 miles or so?
http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/index.cfm?intContentID=3889
Here's a link about money and marriage, for what it's worth. No data, but respected authors are in agreement here.
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