Those wedding dresses are expensive. The young woman marrying my son is paying $3,000 for her dress.
Eloping is a lot cheaper.
If that seems antisocial, get hold of an old Emily Post manual from about the 1930s. Great instructions for having a lovely but inexpensive wedding at home.
Drives me nuts that people spend enough on weddings in recent decades to have put a sound down-payment on a very nice house - and in a few years, the couple is divorced anyway.
Go Figure.