Oh man, I was just having a conversation about this with a close co-worker. He asked me what my view is because my wife or should I say life partner are not married by paper..we both didn't care for a super wedding where most of the guests are people we only talk to once or twice every once or two years...lols. a ring that doesn't look any much better than a ring pop and will eventually either get lost or pawn off for 5% of its value..lols and photos that will eventually end up in the trash after we die...lols what we do and will value however are the memories, and the many more memories along our journey together. So I told the co-worker, any woman expecting a expensive wedding, ring, or photos, run far away from her..lols j/k
I said, either you love her or you don't, and vice versa. don't let a 10k wedding, 20k ring, and 5k photos take away something much more valuable..
if my partner wanted those things, I would had coughed up the funds..but she insist she don't care and rather me not unless I wanted to..so I told her what I said earlier..our rings will probably end up in the ocean floor someday, or one of our great great great grandchildren will pawn it off, lols...and our photos will end up burning in someone's campfire long after we pass..lols so she was like now you're thinking...ins tead she just wants to move in rent free for a year, buy her a car, and make love to her every now and then...lols j.k...
I know she has a house somewhere back east, and some investment..we both agree its okay to keep them ourselves..we both don't believe in 2 becomes 1 in marriage. we believe in meeting halfway. we still fight over bills and stuffs..like fighting to pay for it..lols so that's why we set up a joint account..lols