What They Paid for Their Weddings
Wedding/personal finance service article – The New York Times
The Project: Six brides of different races, socio-economic backgrounds and geographic locations candidly share what their weddings costs, what categories they spent the most (and the least) on and what – if anything – they would do differently if given the chance.
My role: I pitched, reported and penned this enlightening service article for the Weddings section of the Times. I found all of the featured brides and was able to convince these women to be vulnerable and to reveal the financial breakdowns of their nuptials. After diligent research and reporting, I secured six brides including a same sex couple, a once divorced bride who spent roughly $2,000 on her lowkey city wedding close to home and a young graduate school couple who paid $200,000 for an over-the-top destination affair. Readers learned from first-person accounts that expensive does not always equate to memorable and that some couples actually regret not investing in certain aspects of their “big day”.
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