Once upon a time cars and horses were so slow that they loved only one person in their lives. Wedding is to love, just borrow a wedding dress, and friends and relatives sit down for a meal. Unfortunately, times never stop changing. Today's wedding requires more sense of ceremony. From wedding dresses, diamond rings to island weddings, honeymoon trips. Even lazy Australians are not stingy in this once-in-a-lifetime important day, spending a lot of time and money.
Married you, did the perfect wedding cost most of your savings?
Unmarried, are you ready to eat a year's worth of pasta for an expensive wedding?
How much does a wedding cost?
How much does a wedding cost? The answer will naturally vary from person to person. But do you know the average Australian wedding expenses?
Recently, according to the moneysmart.gov.au website of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), which published data on wedding spending (five years ago), the average Australian wedding spending was A $36200.
Among them, food and alcohol cost A $18683, clothing jewelry A $4271, and wedding photos, flowers and ornaments, wedding ceremonies and entertainment items are not cheap.
Of these, 82% use their long-standing savings for expensive weddings; 60% are in debt and borrow; and more than 50% take money from their parents for weddings.
To have a hard-to-forget wedding, many people put off plans to buy houses, delay having children, sell cars to pay for it, and others simply don't get married.
Only 35 percent said the wedding cost was lower than they had expected, and most of the rest should have been shocked by expensive spending.
For businesses, this is definitely a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity, because only once in a lifetime, it symbolizes the perfect ceremony of love and marriage, and no one will save money at this time. This is when every newlyweds are most willing to spend (even if they don't).
Five years on, the wedding expenses of newlyweds in Australia have been on the rise.
A survey of 515 Australian brides by online wedding company Wedded Wonderland found that their median wedding expenses were A $51245, up from A $48624 last year.
The more money you have, the more money you spend on weddings.
For the Newton couple Omar and Reanna Dean (Omar and Reanna Dean), money is not a problem.
They spent as much as A $ one hundred thousand on the wedding in December and hosted about 370 guests, including drummers from other states, wedding parade, in luxury car queues and fireworks and dry ice shows.
"getting married only once in a lifetime, so we want to make it special," said the 23-year-old.
Wendy El-Khoury, creative director of Wird Wonderland, said new couples are now willing to pay more for wedding dresses (A $5180), venue (A $21250), cameraman (A $3507) and photographers (A $3611).
Now, she says, people are getting married late, which could also lead to an increase in the wedding budget. "this could be because newcomers have years of savings, or higher disposable income, so they can spend more money on weddings." Elkour said.
However, there are also extreme examples, "We found that today's newcomers really want the wedding to reflect their characteristics, we know that some newcomers have been eating noodles for a year to save money for the wedding." She said the popularity of social media has also prompted newcomers to spend money on wine and food, because they can see lavish wedding celebrations on social media, which greatly satisfy the vanity of newcomers.
However, Omila (John O'Meara), president of (Australian Bridal Industry Academy), Australia's wedding industry association, reckons that Australian newcomers spend an average of just under A $32,000, with only 12 percent spending more than A $60, 000.
Does the wedding need to be perfect? Everyone has their own answers and standards in their hearts. Some people think that weddings should be perfect even if they are beyond their abilities. A cheap wedding doesn't represent true love. A man who can't afford to pay for a wedding can count on him. Others believe that wedding customs are too many, too many fetters, people in love do not have to rely on an expensive enough to pay for the wedding to prove what, for the wedding originally expected to buy a house, the money to have children, is too unworthwhile.
What do you think?
Marriage and love require a sense of ceremony.
Many people believe that marriage needs a sense of ceremony, so weddings must be grand and beautiful.
Hal, in his early twenties, looks forward to his dream wedding, like many girls. She said, "the wedding is only once in a lifetime, how can we not pay attention to it!"
Xiao Ha's ideal wedding should take two forms: one is Chinese (not to forget the root) and the other is Western (after all, a dog studying abroad). Chinese-style weddings will take place in her hometown of Chengdu, while western-style weddings will take place at Qixingtan in Kenting, Taiwan (because of the nightscape of the seven-star pool). She expects the cost of the wedding to be around A $20,000. She has no demand for diamond rings, just be generous and simple, and one or two thousand Australian dollars is acceptable. The honeymoon will go to Europe, with an estimated cost of at least A $12, 000.
She said: "because at the moment (wedding), the ordinary two people will become extraordinary." In addition, a grand wedding ceremony signifies the importance that two people attach to each other's love. "
In fact, even if you spend all your money on a wedding, it is everyone's personal choice, not right or wrong, as long as I want to, I am happy, I feel happy. Because for some people, rituals give love a romantic and precious color, and some even think that the most important thing about a wedding is to let people see how happy you are, because it makes you happy (I can't refute it).
Through a grand and perfect wedding, we will share our happiness and happiness with the people around us, even more strangers, so that they can feel the romance and beauty of love, and for themselves, the harvest is even more precious memories and experiences. Why not?
The wedding is simple. Just enjoy it.
I think the wedding can be more frugal, and a lot of people are here.
"I don't have a budget for marriage," said Tang, who is also unmarried. "I think it depends on both sides. My boyfriend is Australian. He told me that the wedding budget in Australia is $40, 000, and that's two hundred thousand yuan." I thought it was expensive, but my boy friend thought it was normal. For me, it may not be the best in the range of abilities, but it must be in the middle, and it can be saved a little. "
"if I wear a diamond ring, I will definitely buy a ring, but I will not particularly pursue the size of the diamond ring, because I find it very inconvenient to wear a diamond ring, and I do not like my jewelry with water, so it is very inconvenient to wash my hands when I have to take it off. If the purchase is too expensive, it is wasteful to bring it too often. So the ring is certain to have, it must also be good-looking, but there is no need for excessive luxury. "
"the wedding dress must be beautiful! But if you buy it or rent it, you'll have to consider it. Wedding dress only once, and follow-up maintenance and preservation also has to worry about. So I haven't decided yet. "
"it would be wasteful to spend the down payment on a wedding. A wedding can be a little more frugal, because buying a house is something you can see, but you only enjoy a day at a wedding." Tang's ideal wedding is a combination of tradition and modernity. Don't be too old-fashioned, have lots of flowers, lots of sweets. Guests do not need to be many, their close people and friends and relatives will be good.
Tang belongs to the more rational fianc é s, has romantic fantasies about the wedding, but will still make reasonable consumption according to the actual situation. This kind of person, has the expectation for the wedding, but does not insist on, they are concerned about the more practical life.
Form is bullshit.
Julie is the only one who has been married in today's interview. She has been married for more than 20 years. When I got married, I had nothing, no rings, no necklaces, and now I have a very good life. Some weddings, she said, were grand and not necessarily sweet in the future.
Julie felt that if the conditions were good, they could be a little more extravagant, and if the conditions were not good, they would be simple. Wedding is a ceremony, two people just live a sweet life. Although Julie didn't have a wedding at that time, she still didn't think about it. If the conditions were any better, the children would have grown up, and maybe they could think about it.
Jolie said that if her daughter wanted to get married, she had nothing special to ask for, just to find a good person who could take care of her. As for the form, the form was bullshit. Many people are now simply registered, and the wedding is no longer held. Chinese parents may like face and appearance and rituals are more luxurious, but for their parents in Australia, weddings don't matter. In such a free society, weddings don't matter too much.
Rituals are sometimes just rituals, and the two of you are the two of you, happy or not, such as drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Some people regard a cumbersome and grand wedding as a flood of beasts.
Being bound by weddings, and even affecting future love and marriage, is, in their view, an unfortunate beginning. Such an idea has its own reasons.
Editor's conclusion
A wedding is the wish of parents, the blessing of friends, and the best explanation for romantic love and a good marriage. It is not to be missed, it is beautiful, it is sacred. But must it be expensive?
Everyone has different expectations for marriage and different ideas for weddings. There is nothing wrong with this, after all, marriage and love are an extremely personal matter. Just as some people are willing to wander about with their loved ones, others are willing to keep their wealth and buy property with their loved ones. There is no absolute standard of right or wrong. You married, unmarried people, what do you think of the cost of your wedding?