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Weddings
What’s your worst fear?
Relaxing in your favorite chair and feeling a spider crawl up your leg? Being woken from your sleep by a noisy poltergeist coming to terrorize you? Everyone’s got something they’d rather not face, and Halloween can bring out the worst from your imagination.
Q. I'm going to propose to my girlfriend during the holidays, but from what I've seen and heard it seems like a huge expense. What do I actually need to plan for?
A. Your life together should start with wedded bliss, not wedding bills, so you're doing the right thing by planning ahead. Before you think about all the possible wedding expenses that you and your intended need to consider, let's start with the expense of getting engaged.
Is there an expectation in your family that the next person to get married will have a big, expensive wedding? This may be true in a lot of families because a new survey that has just been released shows that the recession has not affected what Canadian brides plan to spend on their weddings. 1,200 brides surveyed indicate that they plan to spend an average of $20,129 on their weddings. This is a $1,000 increase from last year.
