"You Should Start Marriage at Zero Debt"

The Big Mad Morning Show's October 8th episode opens with a deceptively simple question: what are the worst things you can say to a bride on her wedding day? The answers range from "you look just like his first wife" to "how's it feel to be the second hottest one here" to "you know it's true love when you don't even care that he's a felon." But the conversation quickly becomes something more substantive—a running debate about weddings themselves, what they cost, what they mean, and whether the whole production has gotten away from us.

The Case Against the Big Wedding

Corbin, Gimpy, and Lindsay each had very different weddings. Lindsay's was free—a bakery donated the cake, a venue donated the space. Gimpy had seven guests total: his parents, his brother, a friend, and his wife's aunt and uncle. Corbin and his wife paid for their own 50-to-60-person ceremony plus a 175-person reception back in their hometown. None of them had a traditional large wedding, and none of them recommend going into debt for one.