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<<Phone ringing"Hello?" I'm, uh, planning a wedding for next spring." "a quick quote for a venue for a family gathering" "between 120 and 130 guests." "for 125 people" "we're aiming for April 16th" "the 16th" "That's going to be a $15,000 food and beverage minimum" "The food and beverage minimum is $17,000." This 2000 dollar difference is what's known as the "wedding mark-up" where some venders charge a higher price for weddings than for other similar parties so why are weddings so expensive?

The wedding website "The Knot"surveyed thousands of its members and found that the average cost of their weddings was thirty-one thousand dollars last year that's not including honeymoon wedding dresses average at thirteen hundred dollars and catering comes in its $68 dollars per person. And those numbers are a lot higher if you live in places like New York Chicago DC or San Francisco the wedding industry is kinda weird and it's an industry that I have quite a bit of experience in my way Isabel and I run a wedding videography business in Washington DC and here's my take on my way to so expensive There's this economic concept called asymmetric information. With most things you buy you have a pretty good gauge in what you're getting for what you pay for.

you pretty sure that an 8 dollar avocado is way too much because you've bought avocados before. Familiarity with a market produces balanced information between buyers and sellers and so they can settle on a fair price This is like economics 101.

but most people shopping for wedding stuff and very little if any experience with what they're buying.

cake, dress, napkins, catering, venues, flowers.

This is something you just don't buy very often so you have a very good gauge on what should be paying.

This is made a lot harder by the fact that we wedding vendors have a hard time posting our prices. You usually have to reach out and inquire to get any sort of pricing information.

Imagine if you had asked for pricing for every item in the grocery store. Shopping would be a lot harder. When I first was starting my business I read on a blogs about marketing to prospective clients.

And overwhelming message that I kept reading is "steer away from talking about price" Blogger: "we've put together a free report that shows you how to answer "price question" with those email leads in a way that steers them away from price quickly so you can get them on the phone or to a meeting where you can book them!" And then there's Pinterest. Planning: "Pinterest can be really useful I think using it as a starting point" It's an amazing tool for wedding inspiration or if you have an experience wedding planner by your side, but usually doesn't help with the price question.

"...and you see all these like amazing dresses and you can click on it to like get more information.

you're going to get a lot more pictures , but you're not gonna find any pricing information. And of course there's always the option to "repin" it if you'd liked. If you are like a normal person with a budget like you're setting yourself up to be let down. Another thing that makes wedding so expensive is the once in a lifetime mentality.

The classic line for brides shopping for a wedding dress is: Designer: "It's the dress of your life , and if there's ever one picture will have of you, it's the one in your wedding dress wedding dress." That's wedding dress designer and artist talking on Planet Money. I'm as guilty as anyone at this: Here's were very first ads. it's all about that once in a lifetime feel.

It's just really hard not to splurge when you put so much weight into one day.

So, it's easy to look at this and think there's no doubt that wedding vendors are ripping off their clients.

But there's another side to the story that i think is important to mention.

Planner: "Corporate flowers for example all there's probably going to be direction but maybe there's a little bit more flexibility where as a bride had dreamt up a certain flowers and she in want to talk to the florist multiple times about the bouquet and the ribbon treatment and the fact that her grandmother's broaches gonna be on that Bouquet.

It's a lot of time and energy spent on those flowers and that's gonna be reflected in the price." The upshot of this is that the emotional weight of weddings usually means more work for vendors, and thus higher prices. And the most demanding clients are the ones that set the prices for everyone. So the best thing you can do to avoid being swindled is to demand the price range before hearing a sales pitch.

we vendors might hate it but it's the fair thing to do.

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單詞	發音	釋義
vendor 名詞	/ˈvɛn.dɚ/	賣主 /賣主, 賣家 /賣家
avocado 名詞	/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/	鱷梨 /鱷梨, 酪梨
bouquet 名詞	/buːˈkeɪ/	花束
catering 名詞	/ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/	外燴 /外燴
beverage 名詞	/ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/	飲料 /飲料, 飲品 /飲品
steer 動詞	/stɪɹ/	掌舵, 駕駛
gauge 名詞	/ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/	標準尺寸 /標準尺寸, 標準規格 /標準規格
bride 名詞	/bɹaɪd/	新娘, 新婦 /新婦
florist 名詞	/ˈflɒɹɪst/	花商, 花店
inquire 動詞	/ɪnˈkwaɪɹ/	詢問 /詢問, 打聽 /打聽
napkin 名詞	/ˈnæpˌkɪn/	餐巾, 餐巾紙 /餐巾紙
overwhelm 動詞	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	吞沒 /吞沒
swindle 動詞	/ˈswɪndəl/	詐取 /詐取, 騙取 /騙取
honeymoon 名詞	/ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/	蜜月
mentality 名詞	/mɛnˈtæləti/	心態 /心態, 心理

單詞	釋義
let down 動詞	辜負 /辜負, 對不起 /對不起
put together 動詞	拼合, 組合 /組合

結構	影片中的用法
條件句 if + 從句，will/would + 動詞 — 條件及其結果	if there's ever one picture will have
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is made · be let · be reflected
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	you've bought · we've put

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