--- title: Five Best: Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control description: Wedding inflation is out of control, the age of laser weapons is here and more. canonical: https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-21T16:00:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:39.414Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Wedding inflation is out of control.**](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/scrap-the-wedding-circus-and-just-tie-the-knot-already/79454) By Piper Black at _Ozy_ **2\.** [**The age of laser weapons is here.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/politics/us-navy-drone-laser-weapon/index.html) By Jim Sciutto and Dominique van Heerden at C_NN_ **3\.** [**Could robots ever serve as teachers?**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-17/let-robots-teach-american-schoolkids) By Tyler Cowen in _Bloomberg View_ **4\.** [**Burnout at work isn’t just about exhaustion. It’s also about feeling lonely.**](https://hbr.org/2017/06/burnout-at-work-isnt-just-about-exhaustion-its-also-about-loneliness) By Emma Seppala and Marissa King in the _Harvard Business Review_ **5\.** [**As an escape, as a news source, as a way to measure ourselves against others, Twitter is giving us anxiety.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/how-twitter-fuels-anxiety/534021/) By ALaura Turner in the _Atlantic_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/"},"headline":"Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control","datePublished":"2017-07-21T16:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:39.414Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","twitter","Weddings","Weapons","productivity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4868150/wedding-inflation-is-out-of-control/","name":"Wedding Inflation Is Out of Control"}}]}] ```