Do our families respect one another, now that we are unified?

Each of these investments collectively fall into what I call the Happiness Portfolio.

The more logical solution would be to take a small number of guests out to nice dinners to celebrate your marriage, so you could actually enjoy the extended company of those loved ones. Not only would you be able to celebrate your marriage in a way that only this particular set of loved ones can offer, but you’d also probably save a lot of money as... See more

As a couple, there are many ways to build your collective Happiness Portfolio, but the best way to do it is to spend time with the people you love. Maybe you’ll host a family dinner for someone’s birthday, go to a friend’s place to play some board games, and so on. The reason why this is so effective is because not only are you investing your own... See more

Do we have one another’s back, wherever we choose to go?

Reason #3: You get to spend a grand total of 2 minutes with every guest

However, when people remark on how ridiculously expensive their weddings were, we feign surprise but ultimately accept that it’s “just the way these things work.”

When it comes to dramatic shifts of this nature, I like to reflect on why it happened so I can have a better understanding of the architecture of my cognitive blind spots. In this case, there was something that I was clearly missing from my worldview that was made apparent only after I personally experienced it. Where else do these blind spots... See more

A wedding is not about raising the egos of you and your partner, it’s about sincerely thanking everyone for shaping you into the people you are today.