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5 Tips for Surviving Wedding Season
After a long, pandemic-induced wedding drought, this year is shaping up to be the busiest yet. According to Yahoo, there will be an estimated 2.5 million weddings in 2022, which is the most the U.S. has seen since 1984. As if summer wasn’t enough of a budget killer, it seems like everyone is trying to sabotage your vacation plans and fill your weekends with their own wedding celebrations. These expenses can quickly get out of control, between the engagement parties, bridal showers, bachelor(ette) parties, and the wedding itself, we are spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on other people’s big day.
Book Review: Refinery29 Money Diaries is the Book for the Voyeur in All Of Us
In 2017, Refinery29 surveyed its readers and found that “only 18 percent of millennial women talk about money with their friends.” Enter Refinery29’s Money Diaries.