I’m at an age where I hear a lot of wedding talk. All my friends are in wedding parties or traveling to weddings or planning one for themselves—and the cost comes up a lot. Weddings are a $70 billion ...

I planned my wedding at home in three months (while three months pregnant)! The venue, my mother-in-law’s backyard in rural New Jersey, was almost two hours outside of the city. When it came to the ...