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Couples share their wedding budget breakdown

Last updated on 20th May, 2022 at 04:48 pmIf you swoon at the idea of a fairy-tale wedding, but shudder at the idea of going into debt for your big day, you’re not alone. We spoke to three couples who married in the last year to find out their wedding budget – how they saved, and splurged, to start their lives together.
Saving up for a big wedding
Tamryn and Dyllan married at a wedding venue outside Joburg in September with 70 guests. Their wedding cost just over R200 000, but Tamryn, as a lifes...
The Change Exchange •

How I learned to make peace with my mother’s secret shame

“I’m done with the shame,” I said to my friend.

I was 38 years old. My mother had been dead for a year. And I was just starting to unpack what her disappearance meant, and how I wanted to live from here on.

If you had asked me, I would have said we’d had a happy childhood. In our family, while there was never enough money, and that alone caused huge stress, I never once doubted how deeply devoted our parents were to our welfare and the enormous love they had for us.

Especially, perhaps, my mo...
The Change Exchange •

Why joy should be a basic human right

What does joy mean to me? I had to sit with this question a long time.

I’d always fancied myself a serious person – one who looked at the reality of the world and did not look away.

I felt the heaviness of my relative privilege and the responsibility of bearing witness to other people’s stories.

I thought I was doing the right thing.But deep inside me, I felt a small shift. A flutter.

And so I thought about that.

I’ve always been more comfortable with the inside of my head than the inside o...
The Change Exchange •

The life lessons you learn when your layer cake flops

It’s all the fault of the Strawberry Ombre Cake.

I was seduced by clouds of pink frosting, perfectly complemented by triple layers of delicate sponge in three distinct shades of, again, pink. It was, in short, a vision.

But I was sure the recipe was needlessly persnickety.

Really, there was no need to use three different shades of food colouring. I could simply use varying amounts of the same pink dye to get the same effect.

It called for far too much butter and icing sugar, I harrumphed, so...
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