An ariel view of a large wedding dinner table in the backyard.mgstudyo/Getty Images/iStockphotoI spent 11 months fixing up our house so my son could get married in our backyard.We ended up spending around $40,000 to renovate the kitchen and backyard.We decided to sell the house a couple of years later, and we had an offer within a week.I walked in the door after work, and I got a notification on my personal phone, it was a Facebook alert.