{"id":36999,"date":"2015-09-18T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/much-really-costs-wedding-guest\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:17:32","slug":"much-really-costs-wedding-guest","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/much-really-costs-wedding-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"How much it really costs to be a wedding guest"},"content":{"rendered":" Alexandra Zylstra, 23, and Angus Tobin, 23, have set up an online wishing well for guests to donate cash to help them buy a six-seater aircraft. Picture: Andew Tauber\/Herald Sun\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em><strong>BY JEN KELLY, HERALD SUN<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-intro\">\n<p><strong>REMEMBER when watching a friend say \u201cI do\u201d generally set you back no more than the cost of a dinner set, a little petrol and maybe a fancy new outfit? <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>These days, it\u2019s not unusual to find yourself forking out for flights and accommodation to a far-flung \u201cdestination wedding\u201d, then following up with a cash deposit into a \u201cwishing well\u201d towards anything from a home reno to an IVF baby.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey of 2227 people by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.EasyWeddings.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EasyWeddings.com.au<\/a> uncovers the astonishing cost of being a wedding guest, with airfares and accommodation the biggest hits on the hip pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents who attended at least one wedding in the past year spent $1279 on average.<\/p>\n<p>That included $573 for flights and accommodation, $287 for gifts, $286 for clothing and $133 for other expenses, such as babysitters and taxis.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the bill to be anywhere from $1500 to several thousand dollars if the couple join the thousands of Australians embracing the trend for destination weddings in overseas tropical paradises.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/how-much-it-really-costs-to-be-a-wedding-guest\/story-fnpp4dl6-1227530614416\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at heraldsun.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37000,"template":"","au_article_tag":[181,1045,741],"class_list":["post-36999","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-wedding-news","au_article_tag-budget","au_article_tag-guest","au_article_tag-wedding-guest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/36999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/36999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=36999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}