Wedding, Healthcare Industries Have No Price Tags

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full title: Wedding, Healthcare (and Funeral, to a Lesser Extent Presently in US) Industries Have No Price Tags

Catherine Rampell, Disrupting the Ceremony; Can the Internet fix the price-gouging problem in the wedding industry?  BNew York Times Magazine, Dec 8, 2013 (in the Sunday section OpinionExtra).
www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/the-wedding-fix-is-in.html

(a) Excerpt in the window of print: It's hard to do apple-to-apple comparisons between wedding bands or photographers

(b) two consecutive paragraphs:

"I spoke with a lot of wedding industry veterans, as well as economists who study other markets where consumers frequently feel gouged, thanks to high search costs and informational asymmetries (health care, funerals). They told me the wedding industry’s dysfunction is a product of its highly bespoke services — and, as a result, greater transparency might not bring down prices anyway.


"David M Wood, president of the Association of Bridal Consultants, said part of the problem is that most brides are first-time shoppers



(c) Note: A "wedding band" is not a band that plays music.



wedding ring

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_ring

(or wedding band)