I’ve seen people spend enough on a wedding to put a down payment on a nice little house. Makes no sense - especially when so many of them wind up divorced not too long later.
And then they go and do the white-dress thing again.
I don’t understand the spending, either.
One study said that the success of a marriage correlates positively with the number of guests at the wedding. However, this is unconnected with costs. You can have 500 people (say, most of your church congregation) at a wedding that costs $500.