Wedding Bibles
Before ordering that skyscraper cake and the symphony for your wedding, consider that most of the lavish weddings discussed ended in divorce, including the $3+ million Gest-Minelli wedding that lasted 1 year.
There's no correlation between the extravagance of a wedding and the length or the happiness of the marriage. If there is one, it may even be a negative correlation.
The cost of the wedding aside, a word about its process. The wedding planning for many turn into a full-time production with endless details to research, select, manage and schedule that takes not only time and money but also causes stress and anxiety.
At the conclusion of their wedding, many couples express fatigue and relief more than anything else.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Consider the memorable JFK Jr. Wedding (click) to Caroline Bassette in 1996 on a deserted island in Georgia.
Their wedding chapel (right) was a building that didn't even have electricity, and all they brought were their wedding rings and Bibles.