Weddings

Friday Roundup: The DINKS Wedding Edition

June 3, 2011

Happy Friday DINKS! They say that those who can’t do, teach; and I guess that those who can’t wed, blog. I am not married to my boyfriend Nick and it is definitely not in our (or should I say his) plans.  After surfing the web this week I found a lot of posts about weddings.  [...]

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The Royal Cost of a Royal Wedding

May 4, 2011

Last week millions of people watched while Prince William married his long time girlfriend Kate Middleton in a ceremony that cost millions of dollars. Kate Middleton is now officially royalty…whatever that means. Would you like to have a Royal Wedding? For some women their wedding day is the happiest day of their lives, and they [...]

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Were You Wealthy After Your Wedding?

October 6, 2010

As you know, I am not married to my long term boyfriend Nick. I am trying to emphasize the good reasons for getting married, but it seems that Nick always has a rebuttal. One of the major reasons why Nick is not pro marriage is because he feels the price of a wedding is an [...]

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I’m Engaged! The (Financial) Journey Ahead Of Us

September 27, 2010

After three years of dating I decided it was the right time for to ask my girlfriend the question I have been waiting to ask for a long time: Will you marry me? And the answer, of course, was YES! While we are definitely enjoying our new relationship status, inevitably we are looking towards the [...]

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Merging Finances After Getting Married

January 21, 2010

Conventional wisdom has held that money issues are the most common root cause of divorce. Whether that’s factually accurate, or just the prevailing public opinion, money problems are a huge stressor even for an individual, and that stress can become exacerbated when it involves two people in a relationship. Merging finances after a couple gets [...]

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Buying an Engagement Ring

November 13, 2009

By far, the most expensive and significant purchase I’ve ever made was the engagement ring that I bought for my wife. I had known for a while that I wanted to marry my wife Stacy, but I wanted to wait until the timing was right. That time came in the fall of 2007, when, after [...]

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Paying off Partner’s Debt Pre-Marriage

July 24, 2009

The question has been asked out there before to finance gurus, as to whether or not one should help to pay of their sweetie’s debt before marriage. While there are obviously lots of different opinions on this question, we DINKs have our own two cents to add to the commentary. Overall we see that before [...]

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Buying Antique & Jewelry Repairs

May 25, 2009

Today we have lessons about jewelry purchases. How where you buy can be as important as what you buy. Read on for a tale of a wedding ring. So back when we got married, nearly three years ago, we debated about what type of rings to buy; particularly for me, as James was pretty easy [...]

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Gary Becker, Gay Marriage And The Cost of Discrimination

June 2, 2008

In 1955 the Nobel prize winning economist, Gary Becker made an assertion that changed the face of economic thought about discrimination. He demonstrated that discrimination has an economic cost to the person who discriminates. In his doctoral dissertation, Becker argued that if an employer refuses to hire an inexpensive black laborer preferring instead a pricier [...]

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Wedding Savings Tips

April 13, 2008

Yesterday Miel and I attended a very nice wedding given by good old friends here in Eugene, Oregon. The ceremony was at a lovely Lutheran church with friends and family, with the reception at a nearby restaurant with a great view. Both the bride and groom are local business people so the food was good [...]

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