The Color of Money: Love and marriage can cost arm, leg These days it costs as much to have a wedding on average as it does to buy a new car. The Conde Nast Bridal Group, which publishes Brides, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride magazines, says the average amount spent on weddings has increased to $27,852, up from the average $15,208 wedding in 1990.
Market Tends to Reward Stock Investor Perseverance Welcome to today's one-step-forward, one-step-back stock market a market that bears striking similarities to that of the 1970s, another time of rising inflation, climbing interest rates and a stock market stuck in a seemingly endless box step.