If you thought the attention on the royal wedding was a little crazy, especially given what most young people's lives are like nowadays, and light of what's happened in the last 24 hours--just check out little Gracie, who seems to understand.
Many of us, including Cord at GOOD, were particularly pissed at the price tag, both conceptually and actually. But what do we spend, as opposed to the purported billions spent (and lost) altogether after Kate and Will's fiesta? The average American couple spends about $18,050 to $30,083 on their wedding. This, of course, doesn't factor in any losses--like unpaid vacation for our honeymoons or what our guests spend on our wedding presents.
At first: Phew! A dose of reality. Then: whaaaat? According to the Social Security Administration, the average U.S. salary in 2009 was about $40,000. So given the fact that normal people are spending up to 3/4 of their yearly income (or their parents' income) on weddings--in a friggin' recession!--do we really have a right to be outraged?
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