Do you have the money for your daughter’s wedding?

U.S. couples spend, or should I say their parents spend, on average, $20,398 for their wedding

Recession or not, our baby daughter Diane is getting married. After two years of being squired around town by young Timothy, who I regarded as a son after the first month, they're finally talking the giant step. My wife and I are thrilled, and relieved. Adding Tim to the family will be an easy task and he will be a great asset. He may even get to help me in my law practice one of these days. "So where do we begin?" asked my wife after dinner. "Where everything begins these days," I said. "Online. Type 'wedding costs, or weddings or wedding preparations' into Google and see what you get. That should kee p you busy for the first month."

Personal Loans

I'm not sure what my wife will find on the internet. One thing I do know, though, is that a wedding is probably not a subject for a Personal Loan from the Money Store. On the same subject, I suspect that by the time my baby daughter is safely wed, I will have chalked up a long list of loans.

The wedding search

I was right. It is all online. There are sites where you type in your zip code, go through and tick off a list of options, answer a few questions and the computer spits out an estimate for a wedding of your choice after a couple of seconds. Be warned, none of the estimates are cheap and depending on your zip code, it will pay you to tell your daughter to elope or just move out of town with her boyfriend. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Do you have the money for your daughter's wedding?"