As a magazine, it’s not our role to dictate communal standards. Instead, we share what worked for others, we focus on initiatives that look promising, we highlight numbers and data— but mostly we start a conversation
Sometimes the first side wins — at least initially. (Sometimes the first side even wins in the long term, and a new hire grows into a job description with time.) But often, the personal package trumps all those pointers neatly typed up on paper, and the job description ends up bending and morphing until it takes on a new form adapted to the strengths, weaknesses, and personality of the person it’s assigned to.
As we worked to build this week’s package examining wedding costs today, a similar dynamic kept peeking out at me.
When we produce a project like this, we’re not presenting a neatly-tied package of solutions. As a magazine, it’s not our role to dictate communal standards. Instead, we share what worked for others, we focus on initiatives that look promising, we highlight numbers and data — but mostly we start a conversation.
Most of the material in this project addresses the middle class, those who “should” be able to make it through the month and still pay for a simchah — but who are buckling under the prohibitive costs of “a respectable event.” Virtually all the experts we consulted provided some direction to make the burden more manageable, more joyous. I would boil much of it down to “you have to know who you are and what you can afford, and then you’ll find that there are options you can live with.” It sounds so simple, so liberating.
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