A woman who said she spent over $30,000 on a wedding she “hated” found a new way to have a “beautiful” and “stress-free” marriage experience: by renewing her vows for less than a grand and loving every minute of it.
Alexandrea Acevedo , 27, of Orlando, Florida, said she had a “giant wedding” with 200 guests years ago but felt “stressed” and “anxious” the entire day, she told news agency SWNS.
Today, she feels she did “what everyone else wanted” instead of having her dream wedding day.
She and her husband, Michael Acevedo, renewed their vows last year, she said, and went up a mountain with three of their four children, SWNS reported.
She said it was a “beautiful day.”
Reflecting on her wedding years ago, in contrast, she said the event was “so expensive … We were so young. It was a rough time. I don’t know why we ever did that.”
She said the event cost her and her husband “a little over $30,000. That was such a waste of money. We could have put that toward a house deposit. A wedding is not for the couple – it’s for the guests.”