The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-24

who proposes in the first place, and his
occupation will never be gone as long as
he is needed to pay the bills.
With men of average financial standing
nerve is the essential requirement in get
ting married All the estimated cost of a
brides expenses that were ever written
could not approach in interest to counting
the cost of the bridegroom if one only
knows how to go about it.
Nowadays social customs, even among the
unambitous, demand that the daughter of
the house shall have certain fuss and feath-
ers attached to her wedding ceremony. 1t
is popular fallacy that the brunt of the
expenses incurred in giving bride a proper
shove out into the matrimonial sea falls
upon her parents. For the benefit of the
single only it is necessary to correct this
impression. Any married man knows who
pays the bills.
In marrying credit is bad form There
are a good many things one may do with
out cash.
The expectant bridegroom should remem-
Der this: Don't go in for even moderately
planned wedding unless you are prepared
to deliver up $500 or $500 short notice.
If you go in debt for the indispensable ac-
cessories of the ceremony the chances are
ten TO one it will take you the rest of your
life TO play even, and you may die after
years of more or less happy married life
with some of your wedding bills unpaid
The average man who marries a sensi-
bly-minded little woman will not have an
elaborately-p planned wedding with sixteen
grOomsmen and ushers and half as many
bridesmaids with bouquets and souvenirs
to correspond. The man of moderate salary
who does consent to ii is a Grass idiot for
whom there can't be much sympathy
But even with very modest, and as pre-
va1ling social customs go a sensible we'd
ding, the expenditures that pile up for the
householder, the groom, are decidedly jar
ring.
Say the wedding takes place at a church.
! but with ushers, groomsmen, best man and
bridesmaids all cut out. Here is the way
the bills will pile up:
| Engagement ring (average) - 300
| Wedding ring (average). ............... s
| Gift of the groom (average) ..... 100
| wedding fee (average) ..................... 10
Zee TO sexton for opening church. 5
| Brides bouquet ........................ Is
Hack OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 8
| Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S24l
In addition to the clothes for the we'd
! ding occasion the bridegroom must con-
| slider the expense of certain necessary addi-
! tions to his wardrobe. Even if he limits
| himself 10 the bare necessities which he
will not. the bill grows this way:
| Two new suits of clothes at S45 each. $50 90
| One dress suit for the wedding -. 90 90
| One dozen shirts at s. each........... &c 90
| -Four suits of underwear at So each % 90
| Half-dozen pairs of socks. .......... 200
lies and new pair of sleeve links. 1000
| Two Observation-Disclosures. 10 90
| One pair new shoes. 90
| Overcoat (tailor-made) ........ 90 90
! One dozen handkerchiefs at so cents
| edch ........................... 500
| Two white vests. ........... O0
| One dozen collars at % cents... 90
one dozen pairs of cuffs at 40 cents a
P'it 4S0
smoking jacket ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
Total ..-..v.................... 1909 so
Few men settle down to married life
| without some sort OF a wedding Tourney
and a trip 10 New York is the favorite'
! though IL must be said this eats into the
! bridegroom 5 boarded store worse than the
elephaht Oh wang memory did into the
1t is safe to count the cost of the bridal
| TIP; as IL is nearly always as much a part
! of the wedding as the ceremony itself
Two tickets to New York cat s25 each),
round trip ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800
Sleeping car section teach way SO. -. 81
| Hotel bill. $40 day for seven DAYS "a
| Amusements and incidentals during the
Meals on car trip. thirty-six hours out.
50 apiece, round r.p.................. 90
TIPS --...-..-.---- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3
steamer trunk ............................ s
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Or. if a cheaper trip is selected with
| Asheville as the objective point the ex-
! penses would run something like this:
! Tickets for two. round trip. .......... s54 40
| Sleeping car section round trip. 1000
Hotel bill for week at S a day
Tor TWO 81. 90
| Incidentals and amusements for the
week ............. ....................... $500
Tips ............................. 500
Total 1854 40
| Counting on the basis Of the New York
/ trip the total cost foots up a sweeping
| $50. ~. or if the Asheville trip Is selected
| il will be $3.50
| Even If the honeymoon trip be more eco
nomically planned the expense will amount
! TO considerable. Most any sort of a trip
| costs from $lO0 10 $3.50. including hotel bills.
| These figures. il must be remembered.
| represent only the simplest kind of cere-