Weddings are becoming insane in the UK. I went to a friend's wedding a while back where they had a carved piece of glass showing the seating plan for the dinner. Cost hundreds. They divorced a couple of years later.

The cynic in me would like to see a graph of cost of wedding as a percent of total annual income compared to divorce rates. I have a theory those two things are correlated.

Here's a study that shows some evidence for this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480

Wow, that's crazy. But it does sound like something middle-class Americans would do; they love spending $100k on weddings these days.