I don't know why so many brides want to impress everyone with the size and pomp of their weddings. Saturday afternoon I photographed the wedding of a friend's daughter. She didn't have much money, so she made the decorations and kept everything simple. I was more impressed by her use of ingenuity that by the use of $$$ in so many other weddings. At the end of the day they were just as married as the other couples and the costs were negligible. I have seen weddings so expensive that the couple could have paid for a Hawaiian honeymoon with less.