Look them up and check out their work.I'd imaging your building costs are pretty high.  

My wife and I had just gotten married in October 2011 and the next year we made the difficult decision to sell our home on a short sale rather than sink all of our wedding money into refinancing it.

Debt to income is a little high due to student loans but drastically improving annually.Paid for our own wedding and honey moon in 2010 delaying extra progress on other debts for a year or so. 

So I would imaging if the financials are presented the valuation would come from that... at least in the eyes of the bankers.

I applaud your efforts to teach your daughter the basics of FINANCE.My youngest daughter (& RE investor) was recently in a wedding party where the groom (PharmD) belatedly discovered his bride (MBA) had >$45k in student loans.

I have a wedding to be at that weekend in Chicago :(

For this, we can use the very popular S&P / Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are the leading measures of U.S. residential real estate prices, tracking changes in the value of residential real estate both nationally as well as in 20 metropolitan regions.Here's a chart comparing the index against S&P 500:As you can see, based on the image, the stock market has appreciated quite a bit more than the home price index.

The only nervousness i had going into this was the fact that we are paying for our wedding thats in Sept, and renovations to our first apt.

(for some reason it doesn't seem the image is working but the property is near East 38th St & N Emerson Ave.)

I can't seem to insert an image.