# 7
May 14, 2008
sara925
My interesting facts is how long the average engagement is- its 16 months, the average age of the bride is 26 and the average age of the groom is 28 and the average price spent on a bridal dress is $1,266.
Something that surprised me is that the averages engagement is 16 months. This means my engagement is 14 months less then the average time others get to plan their wedding. Also I’m 7 years younger then the average bride, and my dress cost $1,069 less then the average dress. I think that this is important to document in my film to show how low of a budget that i have. The flowers are the colors i want in the wedding that is why I chose those. I chose that video because that is from the show Bridezilla. I think that it showed how bitchy brides can be. Then i want to show why brides can get so bitchy.
After i published this I went on MSN.com and saw THIS. I thought it was interesting.
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Katrina | May 15, 2008 at 3:26 am
I never new that the average age for marriage for a women was 26 and a male 28. Thoose ages seem kind of old. I also cant believe that the average cost of wedding dress is so much. I know from helping my sister dres shop that hers was not even close to that much.
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Stacey | May 15, 2008 at 3:47 am
I think the information you found is crazy!! Especially because all we hear about now is young girls getting married at our age which for us is normal. I wasn’t too suprised about the cost of a wedding dress. I believe if the dress fits, pay whatever the cost is. You get to be a princess on your wedding day so who cares. I like the idea of you turning into bridezilla if something goes wrong at your wedding. I think it was great when you talked about what you would do if a child cries at your wedding. That would be a great clip to put in your film. Overall though the information you posted is really interesting. The video especially is good too. Some brides are just CRAZY!!!
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kmiddleton | May 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I really like the ways that your research shows how your own experience is unusual, but perhaps becoming less unusual as the economy enters a recession. I suppose the question for me is this: what happens to all of our ideas and expectations about the “perfect wedding” when the bride has to deal with all of these constraints (time, $, etc.)? Like Stacey says above, many of us have the idea that if the dress is perfect, you pay whatever for it. So it seems to indicate a particular set of beliefs and values that lots of people share about weddings being so special as to be priceless—that’s a very different idea than doing it on a budget. Having said that, do you get the sense that the cause of all of the swearing in the video montage you have here is economics, or time?
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fulwilem | May 15, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Sara–
Any time our own experience differs from or contradicts the “usual” or expected experience, we’re in the territory of the personal essay! From planning time to age to budget, you’re situation challenges the “norm.” What about this do you want viewers thinking about? How do you want them to think differently about weddings?
Megan
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vagelec625 | May 15, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I thought the facts that you found about the average wedding were interesting and how your wedding is not at all like that. I think it must be stressful due to the fact that you are not only on a time limit (two months! CRAZY!) and you are on a budget. It will be neat to see how you tie it all together. The clip you showed was also funny, brides do go crazy but often they have a reason! Which you do!