Wedding spending above and beyond the bouquet.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discussed how the wedding industry continues to come up with additional options to entice couples. What were some of the options?

• Courtship Documentary — This is an elaborate form of a photo slideshow. Companies providing this service (Such as Milk & Honey Productions) typically will interview friends and family on film or video. The resulting product has a documentary type feel to it. Spend a little more (like about $500) and the companies will post the film as an iPod download on a password protected website. Cost? Anywhere from $7,500 to $30,000.
• Photo cookies — We are not making this up. A bakery in Los Angeles sells cookies that can be personalized with icing decorated with a scanned image of the Bride and Groom. Don’t save the cookie though, eat it instead because the photo will fade after a few weeks. These photo-cookies will set you back about $42/dozen.
• Monogrammed two-truffle chocolate box — A Chicago based company (Vosges Haut-Chocolat) offers personalized chocolate goodies for weddings. Godiva will sell you boxes that have the names and date of the wedding printed on the ribbon (from $4.25 each).
  Another option is to check out wrappedhersheys.com. You’ll find candy bars whose wrappers can be customized with the couple’s names. About $1.49 each.