Yes; I’ve known people to drop $$ on weddings that would have made a down-payment on a very nice house.
(And I’ve never gotten ‘destination weddings’. It’s like the whole thing is some kind of show-biz production, not really a wedding. Nowadays, many of them are divorced in a few years. Then they do it all over - wearing white again ;-)
I know things in India are different; many are still more-or-less arranged marriages. Pride lost, perhaps; but Love?
Let’s hope it all turns out for the best.
-JT
I dropped about 25 grand on weddings for each of my daughters.
That probably wouldn’t rent a decent hall in NYC or Cal, but was a decent shindig here in the midwest.