What's Love Got to Do With It

The villas at the super-exclusive Mexican resort have been reserved for a year and a half. Your dress, a replica of Grace Kelly's nuptials to her Prince, required you take second mortgage on the house you just bought with your fiance. After some serious compromises, the guest list was whittled down to 574, each of whom will be walking away with a customized bag of the latest celebrity swag. Maybe there's time to look into corporate sponsorship? But all you know is that by golly, this is going to be the most fabulous wedding those 574 will attend in their LIFETIME.

While the above example is extreme, the experts say it's not far off as our drive to put together glitzy, papparazzi-worthy weddings has given rise to "Competitive Wedding Syndrome." The experts say that we are so saturated by celebrity culture and their glamazon weddings (perhaps the newest trend will be copying their fabulous, no expense spared divorce settlements?) that 1000 British couples polled about their intent revealed they are more interested in impressing their guests with their glitz - than honoring the presumed "love" that got them here in the first place. Yikes.

Second jobs, 60 pounds sterling a minute - have you fallen victim to the Syndrome???read on at your peril....