Cultural brain · Rituals, Gifts & Life Scripts
Wedding Signaling
Weddings and courtship are stages for status display and mate-market signalling; the industry prices the display, and the couple pays for an audience.
An everyday example
A wedding budget set by what guests will think rather than what the couple wants.
What it can cost you
Debt for a day of signalling; conflating love with display; consumption steered by courtship anxiety.
Warning signs
- The budget is about the guests.
- The script came from a magazine.
One thing to do
Decide what the event is for and who it is for; budget from that, not from the industry's script.
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