The Wedding Tax Is Totally Real Except When It Isn’t
Weddings cost more than parties — but why? On the morning of her wedding, Andrea, now 32, went to a salon to get her hair done, as brides are wont to do. Only she didn’t say she was her wedding, or even a wedding; the appointment, she told them, was for “an anniversary party.” The price: $75 for a normal updo. “If it had been a wedding thing, they would have rolled out the champagne and the mimosas and done a whole elaborate thing that we didn’t want or need,” she says. The price for the full wedding treatment? “Closer to $350 dollars. ...