At $45 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.
Seasonality is extreme. Planning season starts in the new year, so contributions published between November and February carry the whole year's traffic, and the same article published in July is nearly worthless until January.
Within the Wedding section of the index — 14 listings, 54 median DA, 4.3k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is 12% above the median on cost and roughly 37% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $45 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.
Wedding publications sell listings, which makes them commercially open and editorially cautious: they will publish a useful supplier guide and reject a brochure. The reader is in an expensive, emotional buying cycle, so specific costs, realistic timelines and honest trade-offs are the content that gets saved, and saved pages are the pages that get internal links.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 54 DA and 2.1k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.