UK Wedding News
02/03/2012
On morning the Office for National Statistics revealed that 277,736 weddings took place during 2010, wedding website hitched.co.uk, surveyed thousands of newlywed couples last year to reveal an industry worth a whopping £10 billion.
Planning an engagement through to the honeymoon, a wedding celebration here in the UK collectively costs a little over £36,000, with over half of the bill falling towards the wedding guests.
From the wedding venue to the registrar fees, looking good, a photographer, cutting the cake and everything else related to this once in a lifetime occasion, the average couple spent a total of £12,059 on the big day, plus a further £2,761 on a honeymoon.
However, it's actually the wedding guests who collectively foot the biggest bill on the wedding day. It's not just a gift that guests need to think about when they rip open a wedding invitation - its the £21,307 worth of clothing, stag/hen parties, hotel accommodation, drinks, and travel expenses that an average of 96 guests per wedding are happy to fork out for a friends big day.
With everything taken in to consideration, saying 'I Do' in the UK averaged a total cost of £36,127 per wedding during 2011. A lot of money to spend on a single day, but totally worth the lifetime of memories received from it.
(GK)
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UK Wedding Industry Worth £10bn
Despite the stresses and financial strains that the current economic climate has brought us in recent years, there is one major and life changing event where people are still happy to spend money - a wedding.On morning the Office for National Statistics revealed that 277,736 weddings took place during 2010, wedding website hitched.co.uk, surveyed thousands of newlywed couples last year to reveal an industry worth a whopping £10 billion.
Planning an engagement through to the honeymoon, a wedding celebration here in the UK collectively costs a little over £36,000, with over half of the bill falling towards the wedding guests.
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From the wedding venue to the registrar fees, looking good, a photographer, cutting the cake and everything else related to this once in a lifetime occasion, the average couple spent a total of £12,059 on the big day, plus a further £2,761 on a honeymoon.
However, it's actually the wedding guests who collectively foot the biggest bill on the wedding day. It's not just a gift that guests need to think about when they rip open a wedding invitation - its the £21,307 worth of clothing, stag/hen parties, hotel accommodation, drinks, and travel expenses that an average of 96 guests per wedding are happy to fork out for a friends big day.
With everything taken in to consideration, saying 'I Do' in the UK averaged a total cost of £36,127 per wedding during 2011. A lot of money to spend on a single day, but totally worth the lifetime of memories received from it.
(GK)
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