I agree, but it's harder these days to have a low-budget wedding when a) there's so much societal pressure to have a "normal" wedding, i.e. an expensive one and b) even when you try to have a budget wedding, there are so many hidden costs and just the word "wedding" adds 0s to price tags.
Like unless you get your dress at Target and just have a barbecue in your backyard, it's really tough to keep it cheap. Venues are expensive. If you want to invite all your family and friends, you need somewhere you can fit them all. You're generally expected then to serve them dinner (for a nice dinner, expect catering to easily run $70 a plate) and have some kind of dance or other nice reception. That, plus an actual wedding dress (you can get one for under $500, but that's a bargain and $500 is still $500), decorations (flowers are fucking expensive), nice pictures (because photos are the only thing that is actually going to last forever here, so that's probably worth investing in a proper photographer instead of smartphones)... an expensive wedding isn't always a case of bridezillas going nuts.
Of course you can pick and choose and hunt for deals. But planning weddings is a lot of work and stressful as fuck, eventually it seems a lot of couples just throw their hands up and go "fuck it" and load up those credit cards.
Re: Wedding craziness
Like unless you get your dress at Target and just have a barbecue in your backyard, it's really tough to keep it cheap. Venues are expensive. If you want to invite all your family and friends, you need somewhere you can fit them all. You're generally expected then to serve them dinner (for a nice dinner, expect catering to easily run $70 a plate) and have some kind of dance or other nice reception. That, plus an actual wedding dress (you can get one for under $500, but that's a bargain and $500 is still $500), decorations (flowers are fucking expensive), nice pictures (because photos are the only thing that is actually going to last forever here, so that's probably worth investing in a proper photographer instead of smartphones)... an expensive wedding isn't always a case of bridezillas going nuts.
Of course you can pick and choose and hunt for deals. But planning weddings is a lot of work and stressful as fuck, eventually it seems a lot of couples just throw their hands up and go "fuck it" and load up those credit cards.