Sorry haven't read all the replies but...
Am I the only person who thinks it was a great tip? what's the problem if you have the money to pay for the wedding but you use the credit card instead, pay off the card straight away and use the FF for the honeymoon? it makes great sense to me. Not only that, it's easier to budget and account for all the costs in one statement.
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The problem with this tip is that most young people getting married are not like you, me and the rest of the people on this forum... They would go and rack up a 10K+ debt on their CC, then not be able to pay it off straight away, and therefore pay exorbitant interest, and potentially get themselves into a financial ditch before they even say "I do".
For the record, we did exactly that - paid for the expenses on the CC, and paid it off every month -and that is what we have done every day since then as well - but we pay the CC every month without fail and never spend more than we can afford to pay back. In fact we are leaving on a CC funded FF holiday tonight!
But it is irresponsible to make a blanket statement to the young masses to rack up debt like that, especially towards emotionally driven purchases like a wedding. This country has enough people with massive CC debt already.
Cheers,
Nadia