{"id":2648,"date":"2011-07-26T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwgnm.wordpress.com\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:04:33","slug":"being-a-bridesmaid-is-becoming-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/being-a-bridesmaid-is-becoming-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a bridesmaid is becoming expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.perfectweddingguide.com\/imagerepository\/news\/77067fc6-ffab-43c4-a74a-6428e64c03d2.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[2648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/static.perfectweddingguide.com\/imagerepository\/news\/77067fc6-ffab-43c4-a74a-6428e64c03d2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Brianne Bricker has been a bridesmaids in nine weddings in just two years, and the 24-year-old does not think she can afford another. In fact, she turned a friend down, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the moment they announce the engagement, to the day your friend walks down the aisle, if that&#8217;s a year and a half, you don&#8217;t realize that you&#8217;ve spent $1,600,&#8221; Bricker told the news source.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Columbia Tribune, Deborah Lynn has been a bridesmaid in 15 weddings, and finally had to back out of the last one due to high stress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said, &#8216;We need these necklaces, and you have to get these earrings. You need to go here and do this, and you need to go here and do that.&#8217; I told her, &#8216;You know what? I can\u2019t do it,'&#8221; Lynn told the news source. &#8220;Every day there was something more to do with the wedding. And most of them seemed to involve gifts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being the bride can be stressful do to the immense amount of <a href=\"http:\/\/albuquerque-santa-fe.perfectweddingguide.com\/all\/wedding-planning-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wedding planning<\/a>. However, sometimes it may be important to take a step back and make sure that it isn&#8217;t putting so much stress on the loved ones around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brianne Bricker has been a bridesmaids in nine weddings in just two years, and the 24-year-old does not think she can afford another. In fact, she turned a friend down, according to CNN. &#8220;From the moment they announce the engagement, to the day your friend walks down the aisle, if that&#8217;s a year and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,52],"tags":[504,835,2563],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-wedding-trends","tag-bridesmaids","tag-engagement","tag-wedding-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16288,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}