{"id":321703,"date":"2026-02-28T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:17:10","slug":"nine-couples-on-the-wedding-expenses-they-regret-and-the-ones-that-were-worth-the-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321703\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine couples on the wedding expenses they regret \u2013 and the ones that were worth the splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From large bridal parties to unused photo booths, newlyweds share their spending tips\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam and Iyobosa Arhore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e1837de3-edc2-4fe5-a237-dce34d072f40.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sam and Iyobosa Arhore<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s no getting around it: weddings are expensive. Many couples don\u2019t even realise quite how expensive until they start to plan their own, but the average cost of a wedding today is \u20ac36,000, according to wedding magazine OneFabDay.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Of course, the only money you have to spend is the \u20ac200 notification fee to legally register your marriage. Once you begin planning, however, the costs can quickly pile up, with seemingly endless choices for everything from the flowers to the food to the photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From large bridal parties to unused photo booths, newlyweds share their spending tips Sam and Iyobosa Arhore There\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,86771],"class_list":["post-321703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meadhbh-mcgrath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}