Friday, August 24, 2007 - The CDC Is Counting What??? Today's Wall Street Journal has a column by The Numbers Guy on the cost of weddings. The $30,000 that many people say is the average may not be telling the whole story. The median is actually closer to $15,000. A few ultra-extravagent weddings can skew that average. They cite several popular wedding industry sources for their information. Then came the sentence that floored ALScounts --

"Roughly 2.2 million weddings took place last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

We've been begging for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a registry for ALS (a disease that kills people) and they've been counting weddings.