A huge thank you goes out to our sponsor, @maroowedding. As wedding pros, we tend to dance around the topic of money, but at the end of the day, it’s the key to keeping us doing what we love. Thank you for bringing this topic to light as we look towards the future. ABOUT MAROO: Maroo is modernizing money for the weddings & events industry The wedding is one of the major and most expensive events in an individual’s life next to going to college, buying a first car or house, and having a child. And while there are products and solutions built for those other moments, the wedding payments process of today doesn’t look much different from when our grandparents got married–cash, checks, envelopes with tips, and unbelievably fragmented. Not to mention the headache-inducing job that a couple has to do to organize payments for 10-14 (on average) wedding businesses, all with different payment methods at multiple points over the engagement. It’s enough to make you want to throw up your hands and elope! And let’s talk about the 300,000+ weddings and event businesses that make up the $100 billion (with a B!) dollar US weddings industry. (To put it into perspective, that's about the same size as the US car industry!) But despite how large of an industry we are, for far too long we’ve played it small––avoiding the conversations around money and relying on old-school payment methods, out-of-touch payment platforms designed for other industries and complicated software subscriptions chock-full of hidden processing fees. We want to fix it and that's exactly why we built Maroo. 📸: @fredmarcusstudio