| With Valentine’s Day around the corner and the average wedding costing $28,000, the personal-finance website WalletHub, today released its report on 2023’s Best Places to Get Married and expert commentary. To help couples find the most wedding-friendly destinations, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the biggest U.S. cities across 26 key indicators of cost-effectiveness and convenience. The data set ranges from average wedding cost to venues and event spaces per capita to wedding vendors. Best Places to Get Married in the U.S. 1. Orlando, FL 2. Las Vegas, NV 3. Tulsa, OK 4. Tampa, FL 5. Atlanta, GA 6. Miami, FL 7. Knoxville, TN 8. El Paso, TX 9. New Orleans, LA 10. Boise, ID 11. Oklahoma City, OK 12. Tucson, AZ 13. Columbia, SC 14. St. Louis, MO 15. Cincinnati, OH 16. Chicago, IL 17. Charleston, WV 18. Wichita, KS 19. Richmond, VA 20. Charlotte, NC Best vs. Worst Fort Smith, Arkansas, has the lowest average wedding cost, $15,235, which is 3.1 times lower than in Honolulu and Pearl City, Hawaii, the cities with the highest at $47,813. Washington has the most event planners per capita, 71, which is 8.9 times more than in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the city with the fewest at 8. San Francisco has the most musicians per capita, 20, which is 58.8 times more than in Anchorage, Alaska, the city with the fewest at 0.34. To view the full report and your city’s rank, visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-to-get-married/18721 |
Fromgirltogirl.com Wedding Cake Trends (2023)
Here are our favorite wedding cake ideas.
The Family Heritage Cake of Blessings – Present & Future
Have a wedding cake showcasing heritage of the family.
For my wedding cake display my husband and I will eat together a cake for us with miniature cakes or cupcakes for our wedding guests with the same flavoring and display. When you marry, you marry into the family. Make sure you show the blessings of your union. Our union is husband and wife as we enter our marriage to fill our life and our family members with more present and future blessings. This is a powerful wedding because most people take pictures of the wedding cake display(s). Say with pride this is our marriage and family. We pre-slice or mini cake this kind of wedding cake dessert for our wedding guests. The wedding cake display picture is for the bride and groom to eat. Best of all, nobody can complain because you all are eating the same cake type.
Modern Day Wedding Tower Cake
The traditional tower wedding cakes are interesting and extravagant displays, but it takes too much time to take photos and slice the cake. Remember, people close to the family or foodies love taking pictures of the wedding cake. If you make a homemade wedding cake, it should be by an excellent baker and someone who wants nothing but blessings for your marriage and your entire family. If you can’t find that person, hire a professional wedding cake specialist who meets your requirements at an affordable price for wedding budget.
Know exactly how your cake is made and baked. See how they conceal the cake tower inside. It should be an edible cake tower structure so you won’t waste any money. The baker should show how cake pre-slice will be and still make it look like a whole cake for wedding cake photos. Save time. Save money. Your wedding guests will highly recommend this wedding cake if it is done right.
Big Wedding Cakes ( Side by Side)
Big Wedding Cakes with beautiful decorations make wedding cake eating time fun for everyone. Make sure it is an edible cake decoration. Every part of the cake should be edible and the cake should always look good for taking wedding cake photos. If you can’t pre-slice, the cakes should still be easy to cut. You can just put the wedding cake display on an elevated space to make it an appealing dessert table. Only the people serving the cake should be at this table and go directly to the table for those who really want to eat the wedding cake.
Wedding Planning Advice for Couples
What factors should couples consider when setting a budget for their wedding?
According to Jason Whiting, Ph.D. – Graduate Program Coordinator; Faculty, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University:
When couples set a budget for their wedding, a key factor is whether they are on the same page and whether they can talk it through. Unfortunately, some couples start off their marriage with stress and tension about money and have style differences that are reflected in the wedding plans. Recent research suggests that more expensive weddings are often associated with shorter marriages, and it may be that elaborate plans bring stressors and unrealistic expectations that cause angst that is hard to overcome.
How much money are you willing to spend that will not affect the start of your marriage and life together?
What you do not want to do is go into debt to pay for a wedding or pay interest on a new (or current) credit card for what is essentially a big party.
Think about your wedding as a celebration with family and close friends, rather than a show.
Here are questions to ask before you schedule the wedding date:
1.Who do you really want to be there?
2. Can your guests afford to travel to your wedding?
Erika Engstrom, Ph.D. – Director, School of Journalism and Media, University of Kentucky
The tradition of the bride’s – or bridegroom’s – parents paying for a wedding as a gift to the couple may be something you do not have an issue with – but what could you do with the money instead of paying for the wedding? You can make a down payment on a house.
How should a couple decide where to get married?
There are so many factors at play when deciding on where to get married; the wedding destination could range from where the bride or groom grew up or has family, to a place that is significant for both like the city where they met or currently live in, or perhaps a vacation destination where the couple would like to celebrate their union.
According to Madhavi Menon, Ph.D. – Professor, Nova Southeastern University, deciding the wedding destination could very well be the first big decision being made by the soon-to-be married couple, but like the marriage ahead, determining the destination should be a joint effort, while also giving due consideration to each person’s wishes.
Erika Engstrom, Ph.D. – Director, School of Journalism and Media, University of Kentucky
This depends on, of course, the money and time the couple is willing to spend to travel. A destination wedding may serve as a well-deserved getaway or family reunion, or you might want to think about what is easiest and cost-effective for not only you but for your guests.
A wedding should be a once-in-a-lifetime event, so if you can afford it and have considered whether or not the traditions associated with weddings align with your personal values and ethics, go ahead and go big. If you are more practical, backyard weddings can be one of the best weddings for the fun and comfort of a loving home.
Or there’s always city hall, which can be as romantic as the $30,000 white weddings typically portrayed in magazines and movies. It really does not matter where you get married, but that you truly and authentically mark the occasion.
What tips do you have for a couple planning a wedding and hoping to stay on a budget?
Daniel J. Puhlman Ph.D., C-LMFT – Assistant Professor, University of Maine
Remember that a wedding and a marriage are not the same. Do not spend recklessly thinking it will be the thing that sends you into marital bliss. It is a fleeting experience and the memories will be wonderful, but is it really worth breaking the bank? No. Could your marital health be better protected by investing your money in more meaningful ways? Yes.
Remind yourselves that this is a single day in your life and the money you spend will simply disappear into the wedding industry with no positive impact on your relationship. If you feel a need to impress people or ‘keep up with the Jones’ then you probably should rethink those priorities as you plan your wedding.
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