{"id":5333,"date":"2017-09-01T13:12:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2017-09-01T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:22:40","slug":"wedding-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wedding-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Costs &#8211; How to Keep Them Under Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In life, there are certain facts to face. When it comes to wedding costs, it\u2019s simple! Weddings are expensive. In fact, they are VERY expensive. These days, you really have to be smart about your wedding costs. Whether you have a lot ($100,000) or a little ($1,000) to spend, all it takes is a little advice, some serious planning and a few money-saving tricks. The truth is &#8211;\u00a0 you can have the wedding you always wanted.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what? You can keep your wedding costs reasonable without anyone missing anything.<\/p>\n<p>TheKnot.com recently reported that the average price of a wedding is over $35,000. That\u2019s sometimes what a starting salary is for a young couple just out of college. Getting married might not be easy as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are looking for help with your wedding costs, our friends at <strong>Investment Zen<\/strong> have come up with this AWESOME infographic that helps break everything down for you. They look at the expenses, trends, and statistics of weddings from 2016 and provide a few tips to help you keep more of your money in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>And with more money in your pocket, you can think about making sure that the groom-to-be buys a precious metal ring instead of settling a cheap <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/alternative-metals-vs-precious-metals\/\">alternative metal<\/a> ring that can\u2019t be sized. But that\u2019s another story for another day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentzen.com\/data-visualization\/the-state-of-american-weddings-in-2017-costs-trends-and-how-to-save-money\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/investmentzen-569f.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-State-Of-American-Weddings-In-2017.jpg\" alt=\"The State Of American Weddings In 2017: Costs, Trends, and How to Save Money\" width=\"800px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentzen.com\/data-visualization\/the-state-of-american-weddings-in-2017-costs-trends-and-how-to-save-money\/\">InvestmentZen.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weddings are expensive. But with some research and creativity, you can be smart about your wedding costs. Wedding costs do not have to be crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[320],"tags":[402,159,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}