Wow, either your pets have been extremely unlucky, or you live somewhere VERY expensive. Considering those are dollars, I can guess it's a probably at least a bit of the second.

My Dutch vet has a "kitten package" which is 550 euros for spay/neuter, first year of (three rounds of?) vaccines and one seperate checkup. I probably spend something like 500 euros on food/grit per cat. Maybe a bit less, it's cheaper if you have two. That doesn't include complications of course, or food/toys.

On the other hand, my wedding ring doesn't exist because neither of us like rings, so it's never going to beat that.