British experts on family law published curious statistics: eight out of ten young families who spent more than thirty thousand pounds sterling for their wedding, did not survive in the matrimonial harness and five years. Wedding events, which are so expensive, are not uncommon in our time. And if you do not want your marriage, like a fairy tale, to have a completion (remember: "Is this the end of the fairy tale ...?"), Do not arrange fabulous luxury weddings!
Illustrative is the example of Keira Knightley, an actress from the Pirates of the Caribbean, who on May 4 this year married a musician of the band Klaxons James Rayton. Although she "is" over thirty million pounds, but at wedding expenses decided to save. No one condemned her for refusing a chic limousine, traditional for such cases, and did not scorn about the wedding dress, which was by no means a wedding cut, and already several times worn by Kira for other events. Practical bride even high heels preferred comfortable ballet flats. The logic is simple - if a lavish wedding can lead to a divorce, then why should Cyrus, for the sake of lasting happiness, arrange an overly pompous holiday?All the same, you will not please everyone ... A wedding is essentially a purely personal celebration without unnecessary show-off. The modest "mezhdusoboychik", arranged by Kira and James for their own, was a precedent in the epidemic that engulfed British society "whose wedding is steeper?". At the wedding ceremony there were only 12 of the closest, and the wedding table was laid out for 50 guests. The example of these newlyweds, who, by the way, spend their honeymoon in Corsica, should teach other young people who, in the heat of wedding romance and for the sake of high-society conventions, spend over thirty thousand pounds sterling, and then it turns out that this money was borrowed. And instead of having to build their new, stable partnership relations in the first years of a joint life, the newlyweds are forced to "spin" under the pressure of financial problems. To the costs in the form of tuition fees, the possible rental of rented housing adds additional daily work, the decision of which pushes all the charms of married life to the background.
Britain's leading family psychologists approvingly commented on the modest (for the movie star, of course!) Wedding of Kira Knightley, stressing that reasonable expenses for the wedding ceremonies will serve as a solid foundation for building long-term family relationships and provide natural financial security, which is very important in the current economic conditions.
Analyzing the statistics of wedding expenses, British marketers of many companies have noticed that the cost of a wedding is always calculated from the point of view of the groom and the bride, but the position of the guests who are ready not to stint, just to look the most desirable, the best wedding guest, is completely out of sight. When it comes to a wedding gift, more than half of the generous guests spend more than 100 pounds on a gift for a happy couple. Even on booze is spent less. Some experts compare the billions of wedding expenses on a national scale with the level of needs of individual industries in the UK. Compare: the average Briton, it turns out, spends 440 pounds for the wedding, and all this for the sake of throwing dust into his eyes. Cunning statistic determined that such weddings for a year the average Briton has five. Total 2,200 pounds per year ... The same marketers joke that we are willing to stint for the sake of any little thing when we go to the store, but when it comes to the wedding, our extravagance knows no bounds.
The psychology of women has also changed: 70% of the interviewed Miss and Mrs. will prefer to spend more money on toilets than on arranging their own family nest. In their eyes, an expensive attire at a wedding is a very important part of the wedding ceremony.
For some reason, British marketers were stunned by such confessions. But this "disease" is infected by all countries. Why go far, in the CIS countries (although where they are to the UK!) Already at the governmental level decide the issue of limiting the cost of wedding celebrations. In poor Kyrgyzstan and other countries of Central Asia, at the parliamentary level, they try to limit the wedding budgets drawn up to suit the social conventions of these states. The wedding costs 20-50 thousand dollars, but for their standard of living it is generally death. Their debts for the wedding for years, and pay the newlyweds with their parents, and guests who had the imprudence to make a super-expensive gift. As they say in the Russian proverb: "Razoritsya, but do not succumb!". A vicious circle in which everyone, even young ones, forgets about the pre-history of the wedding feast: it's just an event in honor of the emergence of a new family in society, and which has a symbolic character. Everything has already been agreed in advance, and the rest, as they say: "Pour!". And next day from this wedding, except for a headache to some participants, nothing remains.