I’m not engaged anymore..

So first of all, if it wasn't obvious from the title, this is not going to be my normal personal finance market update style video like I usually do. Don't worry, those are coming back soon, but from now on, they're going to be a little bit different moving forward, as I'll explain shortly.

Anyway, with this one, I want to take a moment and talk about a few recent changes in my life, and hopefully, you'll find these experiences helpful, or at the very least, maybe you'll find it interesting in terms of what's going on. Otherwise, like I said, if you're here for the normal what's going on with stocks and housing and the overall economy, like I said, that will be coming back next week. It's just not going to be in this week's video, so just you could skip past this if you don't care. But if you do care, just I guess keep watching.

All right, so now that we got that out of the way, you might have noticed, or maybe not, that I haven't posted a video here in the last 3 weeks on the channel, which is the longest break I have ever taken by far in the last 7 and 1/2 years. Like, without exaggeration, since early '17 I made up my mission to post three videos here a week every single Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, no matter what, except if it fell on a major holiday, in which case it would just post the next day.

Now, even though I absolutely love making these videos, the reality is that it was all I could ever think about. It's all I ever focused on, and as soon as I was done making one video, I might have a few hours of mental downtime before I'd have to immediately start thinking about the next one, which created a few unique problems that I'll talk about a little later on. But I digress.

As I alluded to in my previous video, after 2 years of being engaged, we just got married. Since this was the first time in my entire life that we've had everyone that I care about in the same place at the same time, I decided to completely disconnect from work and my phone and just spend time with people I care about and be in the moment. As much as people said your wedding day would fly by in the blink of an eye, they were completely right.

Like admittedly staying here, but I always thought that weddings were the biggest financial upsell on the planet. Like when we started looking at venue options, flower options, food options, and every service—anything you could think of—there's definitely a premium that gets tacked onto everything that triples the cost from any other event. And yeah, I know, I know everyone says you can't put a price on your wedding day. I get that.

You know what? After going through it, I have to say you're right. At the end of the day, after almost two years of planning, even though it came in slightly above where we initially thought it would cost, it was an unforgettable day. It was something that was so much more impactful than I ever expected it to be.

I think in the back of my mind, I just always thought about the simplest option of going to the courthouse to sign the papers, renting out an Airbnb, catering, and trole for the food, going to Costco for the drinks, and just keeping things easy. But I'm so glad we didn't do that, and I absolutely would have done the entire day over if I could.

You know, someone said to me a few months ago that a wedding is going to be the only time in your entire life that you're going to have all the people who care about you in the same room at the same time—that's not a funeral. And the more I thought about that, the more that's absolutely true. I think for most people, it's probably going to be the only time while they're alive that they'll have this sort of turnout for something that's positive.

So being able to be mentally present the entire time was unforgettable. Oh, side note, fun fact: but I actually had my podcast co-host Jack officiate the wedding because why not? Apparently, it's really easy to get certified online for that sort of thing, so we decided to do it. Plus, he could now say in a YouTube title, "I married Graham Stefan," and it's technically true.

Anyway, I also thought it was incredibly special that Macy and I were able to make our own weddin...