That’s an excellent point. I know a young woman who held a destination wedding in Costa Rica. Made all of her friends and relatives spring for that trip.
She was divorced two years later.
Personal observation: The more spent on & “extravagant” the wedding the shorter then marriage.
Went to a destination wedding a few years ago outside Boston MAstan. All it cost me was $275 round-trip airfare and splitting the cost of a hotel room for 1 of the 3 nights with a buddy, mutual friend of the bride.
Huge 3-day affair, 300 people, never had to pay for food or booze. Beautiful hotelier bride, good-looking hard-working family union man (had worked with father, uncle, brothers on Big Dig).
Affair was the right word. The wedding lasted 11 months thanks to the groom.
There’s been research that the durability of the marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding.
Makes sense. A woman who just HAS to have a lavish wedding is unlikely to be satisfied with any more mortal as husband.