Love, But Make It Strategic: How Black Couples Are Doing Weddings on Their Own Terms

Essence Magazine:

By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated March 31, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Wedding season is officially back.

And somewhere between “I do” and “until death do us part” there’s a vendor who needs to hear, “here’s my credit card.” It seems like somewhere along the way, wedding culture stopped making financial sense, and couples are starting to course-correct. For some couples, that course-correction is about preference. For others, it’s about necessity.

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