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How Much It’s Costing You To Be A Wedding Guest · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what love is. Its expensive is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's light of fmcubby, Christine and producer Kristen
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, how much it's costing Americans to be a
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  Speaker 1: wedding guest. Welcome to June, by the way, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: actually all of summer, yeah, very busy.
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  Speaker 2: Wedding time right into October is a big month.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, Christine, you're telling me getting married can be
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  Speaker 1: incredibly expensive, as the average cost of weddings in the
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  Speaker 1: US is now thirty six thousand dollars. But new research
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  Speaker 1: suggests just being a wedding guest doesn't come cheap anymore.
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  Speaker 1: According to a new poll of two thousand US adults
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  Speaker 1: by PayPal, nearly a third we'll spend at least six
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars to attend an upcoming wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we are talking about the rest of the country,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, let's get to the northeast, where the
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  Speaker 2: cost of a wedding is on it's way more than
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  Speaker 2: thirty six thousand. If you're doing the big elaborate.
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  Speaker 1: Double that right here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it's a house basically, but we are spending,
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, six hundred is the average. But people
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  Speaker 2: are spinning up to a thousand bucks to be a wedding, guests,
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  Speaker 2: to be a guest, just to be the guest. And
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  Speaker 2: then you've got to think about are you traveling to
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  Speaker 2: the wedding? Is a destination wedding, you know, how much?
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  Speaker 2: How much are you contributing to the gifts and the
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  Speaker 2: funds and everything that goes into it, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're part of a bachelor, part of your bachelorette party,
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  Speaker 2: or right all of it, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: This article goes on to say that, you know, despite
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  Speaker 1: the high cost, most people say they're they're not willing
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  Speaker 1: to miss out on those milestone celebrations, so they're spending
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  Speaker 1: the money. Yes, it's almost like their ticket to see
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Right, But I mean, can you imagine,
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  Speaker 1: like the celebrities these days, like a Taylor Swift wedding
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of weeks. I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: much it costs for a guest even attend that wedding.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole noother conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, you can.
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  Speaker 1: But your typical wedding that you're going to, the guest
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  Speaker 1: will average about five six hundred bucks. And again that's
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  Speaker 1: the gift, that's the travel, Yeah, that's the attire and every.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, I think that's actually low end,
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  Speaker 2: you know, considering the weddings I've been to recently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and to be the valet guys five hundred exactly. People
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  Speaker 2: are saying, like what they'll give up right to go
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  Speaker 2: to a wedding. We'll give up dining out or a
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  Speaker 2: night out, or shopping for new clothes or daily coffee
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  Speaker 2: runs so we can get the money together, so we
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  Speaker 2: can do this. Yeah, And as I said, the weddings
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  Speaker 2: are becoming more and more elaborate, and they say a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it is what they call wedding culture, shaped
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  Speaker 2: by celebrations that we see online, that we see on
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  Speaker 2: social that we see celebrities. Right, we're kind of doing
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  Speaker 2: the same.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take an impromptu poll right now. You
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  Speaker 1: can text us at four four three six three, give
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  Speaker 1: us a text. If you've been to a wedding recently
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  Speaker 1: or you're going to a wedding. How much money as
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  Speaker 1: a guest are you spending? And that includes everything, right,
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  Speaker 1: even the gift if you give cash.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So you can give cash, You've got to get
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  Speaker 2: your outfit together. You've got to get there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, a lot involved, so hit us up on text.
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  Speaker 1: Would love to hear the number if you don't mind
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  Speaker 1: sharing as we come back with what do we have
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  Speaker 1: on the way? Oh, you know what, We're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a trivia battle. We'll give up the phone number, tell
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  Speaker 1: you our prize coming up next