{"id":19782,"date":"2025-11-09T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19782"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:07:59","slug":"media-back-to-the-average-cost-of-weddings-is-33k-b-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/11\/09\/media-back-to-the-average-cost-of-weddings-is-33k-b-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: The &#8220;average cost of weddings&#8221; is $33k"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/qKj5o\">How tariffs could impact wedding budgets | CNN Business<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s trade agenda isn\u2019t helping the average cost of a US wedding, which has risen by 18% to $33,000 over the last five years, according to The Knot, a global wedding planning and vendor marketplace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We covered this before<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-social-panic wp-block-embed-social-panic\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fkV2W48mvZ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/06\/11\/using-questionable-statistics-to-drive-up-wedding-costs\/\">Using Questionable Statistics to Drive Up Wedding Costs?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Using Questionable Statistics to Drive Up Wedding Costs?&#8221; &#8212; Social Panic\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/06\/11\/using-questionable-statistics-to-drive-up-wedding-costs\/embed\/#?secret=nbqbqig7g3#?secret=fkV2W48mvZ\" data-secret=\"fkV2W48mvZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>How can an average wedding cost $35,329 when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.marketwatch.com\/story\/most-americans-have-less-than-1000-in-savings-2015-10-06\">62% of American have less than $1,000 in their savings account<\/a>&nbsp;and only 10-20% have more than $1,000 in savings? (Perhaps this is because they spent it all on weddings and are now complaining they have no money?)<br><\/em><br>In my state, about 1 in 4 children live in poverty. More than 1 in 4 citizens qualify for Medicaid, which has extremely low-income levels for qualifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way these numbers can all be true is a small number of people spend a huge amount on weddings, or a large number live in poverty because they spend a lot on elective luxuries like high end weddings. <strong><em>Or the wedding estimates are bogus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;average&#8221; wedding costs $33,000 or $35,000? No it doesn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,26,29,30,32,352,39,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-doomer","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-mind-control","category-misinformation","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}