The Surprisingly High Wedding Cost in Canada

The Surprisingly High Wedding Cost in Canada

Wedding Cost

Recent research shows that a person in Canada who is planning to get married figures to spend about $15,000 on the affair. But even with that amount spent, most respondents to a recent survey say they don’t expect to be able to pay the entire bill for their big day alone.

Shocking Wedding Cost Stats

Some surprising statistics come from the recent poll, including the facts that:

  • Some 60 percent of respondents expect to cover some of the costs of their anticipated wedding by drawing on savings or other investments
  • About 40 percent see their dream wedding as unattainable for them
  • Most respondents anticipate a need to rely on friends and family for additional costs that they will not be able to cover

The survey produced findings that cause concern for some financial planning experts. The CEO of the company conducting the survey noted that, typically, retirement is one category of future needs where “people will typically underestimate what they’re going to need to spend and then get surprised.” She noted that the recent study reveals a “very similar pattern of behavior” with respect to planning for the costs of a wedding.

The company CEO recommends that those anticipating a wedding should put together a realistic, comprehensive budget for the event. She advises that people put away some money every month for future wedding plans, realizing that the total bill may come in at a figure that can be shocking after adding up all the various line items in the budget.

Canadian Bred Rocker to Wed in California

Sebastian Bach, singer for rock band Skid Row, is getting married, again, and you may be on the guest list. The rocker has Canadian roots, as he was raised in Peterborough, Ontario, but he plans to tie the knot this time in San Jose, California.

The venue where Bach and bride-to-be Suzanne Le, a beauty from Hawaii, intend to get hitched has offered “limited edition” tickets to the couple’s “Rock and Roll Extravaganza” wedding, planned for Aug. 22. For $300 each, fans and celebrants of the nuptials can join the happy couple on their wedding day at the Rockbar Theater. Dress code is “rockstar chic.”

Wedding Tears

A surprise twist to a wedding in Canada caused the bride to break out in tears of joy at the effort her new husband had put into learning a song to sing for her. Of Indian descent, she was thrilled and overjoyed when she realized that her Canadian husband was belting out a Bollywood love song for her in front of all the guests with the video cameras rolling.

The documentation of that moment took the Internet by storm, sweeping social media venues with repeated views. Many millions of people, strangers to the couple and their wedding in Canada, have clicked and viewed, liked and shared and helped to spread the nuptial serenade far and wide across the World Wide Web.

Start of Something Big?

The groom nailed the performance so entirely that he now fields requests to sing at other weddings. His wife hopes that one day, when they visit her family in India, he may perform for relatives there.

More important than any alternate career as a wedding singer, though, is the joy that the couple has spread by sharing their moment of love. They use their moment of unexpected celebrity to spread a message of hope, asking citizens on the web to “Show Some Love” with videos or selfies showing people expressing affection, respect, kindness and love.

They hope that the attention they have received can make a small positive impact on the world with their challenge to everyone to “make a headline news story of love and a positive message” and share it with the billions of human beings who are connected to the digital commons of the information age. Their story provides a simple template of the type of experience they have in mind: they urge everyone to document moments where someone does something special for someone else, simply for the pure joy of the moment.

The Surprisingly High Wedding Cost in Canada

Wedding Cost

Recent research shows that a person in Canada who is planning to get married figures to spend about $15,000 on the affair. But even with that amount spent, most respondents to a recent survey say they don’t expect to be able to pay the entire bill for their big day alone.

Shocking Wedding Cost Stats

Some surprising statistics come from the recent poll, including the facts that:

  • Some 60 percent of respondents expect to cover some of the costs of their anticipated wedding by drawing on savings or other investments
  • About 40 percent see their dream wedding as unattainable for them
  • Most respondents anticipate a need to rely on friends and family for additional costs that they will not be able to cover

The survey produced findings that cause concern for some financial planning experts. The CEO of the company conducting the survey noted that, typically, retirement is one category of future needs where “people will typically underestimate what they’re going to need to spend and then get surprised.” She noted that the recent study reveals a “very similar pattern of behavior” with respect to planning for the costs of a wedding.

The company CEO recommends that those anticipating a wedding should put together a realistic, comprehensive budget for the event. She advises that people put away some money every month for future wedding plans, realizing that the total bill may come in at a figure that can be shocking after adding up all the various line items in the budget.

Canadian Bred Rocker to Wed in California

Sebastian Bach, singer for rock band Skid Row, is getting married, again, and you may be on the guest list. The rocker has Canadian roots, as he was raised in Peterborough, Ontario, but he plans to tie the knot this time in San Jose, California.

The venue where Bach and bride-to-be Suzanne Le, a beauty from Hawaii, intend to get hitched has offered “limited edition” tickets to the couple’s “Rock and Roll Extravaganza” wedding, planned for Aug. 22. For $300 each, fans and celebrants of the nuptials can join the happy couple on their wedding day at the Rockbar Theater. Dress code is “rockstar chic.”

Wedding Tears

A surprise twist to a wedding in Canada caused the bride to break out in tears of joy at the effort her new husband had put into learning a song to sing for her. Of Indian descent, she was thrilled and overjoyed when she realized that her Canadian husband was belting out a Bollywood love song for her in front of all the guests with the video cameras rolling.

The documentation of that moment took the Internet by storm, sweeping social media venues with repeated views. Many millions of people, strangers to the couple and their wedding in Canada, have clicked and viewed, liked and shared and helped to spread the nuptial serenade far and wide across the World Wide Web.

Start of Something Big?

The groom nailed the performance so entirely that he now fields requests to sing at other weddings. His wife hopes that one day, when they visit her family in India, he may perform for relatives there.

More important than any alternate career as a wedding singer, though, is the joy that the couple has spread by sharing their moment of love. They use their moment of unexpected celebrity to spread a message of hope, asking citizens on the web to “Show Some Love” with videos or selfies showing people expressing affection, respect, kindness and love.

They hope that the attention they have received can make a small positive impact on the world with their challenge to everyone to “make a headline news story of love and a positive message” and share it with the billions of human beings who are connected to the digital commons of the information age. Their story provides a simple template of the type of experience they have in mind: they urge everyone to document moments where someone does something special for someone else, simply for the pure joy of the moment.

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