Crane Dickey

I never wanted to spend much money on my wedding. Of course, I wanted it to be nice, and not a drive-through style wedding in a Las Vegas chapel. However, I never wanted to spend thousands and thousands of dollars. For a few simple reasons. The first reason was obvious. I always believed that in order for your future married life to be happy, it did not really matter how lavish your wedding was. What mattered was if you were able to find and marry your equal. The second reason was even more obvious. Beaker and I were broke-ass newlyweds-to-be.

Therefore, based on our philosophy and our financial situation, we ended up with quite a cheap wedding. We did not run out of food. Somehow, we managed to not run out of booze. Most importantly, we managed to share our happiest day with our family and our closest friends on the cheap, and not break our bank account (well, it was already broken anyway.)

You know the average cost of a wedding in the U.S.? Apparently, it was about $26,989 in 2012. I never can quite comprehend why people are willing to drop thousands and thousands of dollars on a big dress-up party.