article_snippet.sent: I would have a very hard time justifying spending $20,000 on a wedding when I could go to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: their also don't want to burden a husband or wife with their own debt.
article_snippet.sent: And it's really hard to plan a wedding, or even think about something like that when you owe so much money, you don't have a job, and you don't have a home.
article_snippet.sent: To put it short," he told us, "marriage costs money (party, clothes, rings, honeymoon trip, etc.) and gives no significant advantages, as there are no economic or legal advantages and no real social pressure to get married, or anyone frowning on premarital sex and cohabitation.