The New York Times Weddings section, forever on the beat of things that are hot and sexy, draws our attention to a new trend for brides: taking weekend trips for their bachelorette parties with their besties and/or having more than one bachelorette party. In general, neither of these ideas seems entirely new. What they are is very expensive.
In an article that appropriately references The Toast‘s great parody bachelorette party email chain piece, the Times goes into the hush-hush world of debaucherous bachelorette parties that last for days, leaving the attendees pockets drained. At least one such party, held for a bride named Tracy, was so expensive that it cost each attendee $4,000 for four nights of partying Miami – “And that was after Tracy’s fiancé paid for one night for everyone at the W hotel, which lowered the price.” (Though in this instance, all the women attending paid for Tracy’s costs as some sort of group birthday dinner gone awry. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall of the passive-aggressive email chain when that idea was first broached.)