Should you pay for a wedding or elope and invest the cash?

Slate has introduced an interactive wedding calculator.You enter the number of years you've been married and the amount you forked over for your wedding, and it crunches how much money you'd have today if you had invested that cash in the S&P 500 in the year of your marriage instead.

I gave the calculator a try. If we had taken the $20,000 we spend on our wedding 12 years ago and invested it, we would have about $60,000 in cash now. Was the wedding worth it?  Yeah, I think so, and I'm pretty sure my wife would say it was too.

See what the wedding calculator says about your wedding...

 

 

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