One critical note to "The particularly scary part here is that the average cost of a wedding in the U.S. is well over $30,000, which doesn’t bode well for the

One critical note to "The particularly scary part here is that the average cost of a wedding in the U.S. is well over $30,000, which doesn’t bode well for the future of American marriages." Since wedding costs are not Gaussian (quick guess exponential), the mean is not very informative. Even misleading.