Personal Finance
Why We Overspent On Our Wedding
By cheerful.egg  •  June 27, 2016
I’ve said it. You’ve said it. We’ve all said it. Ask any young person about their dream wedding, and 90% of them will say, “We just want a small, simple wedding.” But guess what? This is a lie. Just like how we all declare on New Year’s Day that we’ll “start exercising regularly”, what we say is dramatically different from what we actually do. As Ramit Sethi writes in Why are we all hypocrites about weddings?, everyone pretends that they won’t spend huge fortunes on their weddings… until they actually do. Then they look back and say, “Ahhh crap. We spent that much?!” Even yours truly – the cost-conscious personal finance blogger – fell into that trap. Today, I’m going to show you how much my wife and I actually spent on our wedding, why it busted our budget. This could’ve turned into a “haha, I’m so stupid” blogpost, ......
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Hey, what’s up? My name’s Lionel. When I was a kid, my favourite comic of all time was Spider-Man. Before he became a superhero, Peter Parker had to deal the day-to-day struggles of a young person: Living with foster parents, grades, bullies, and getting pushed around.
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