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Newly-weds in Shanghai spend nearly 190,000 yuan for their marriage

www.chinanews.cn 2006-07-04 18:13:08

Chinanews, Shanghai, July 4 �C Newlyweds in Shanghai are willing to spend
a lot for their marriage. The Shanghai Marriage Celebration Association
recently published the result of a questionnaire investigation conducted
nationwide. The result showed that every newlywed couple in Shanghai
spends 187,130 yuan on average for their marriage celebration, 50,000
yuan more than that in Guangzhou and nearly doubling the figure in
Harbin, which stands at the bottom.
The report showed that every couple in Shanghai spends 60,000 yuan for
housing decoration, which makes up the most part of the marriage
expenditure. Buying furniture (20,000 yuan) and household appliances
(16,000 yuan) are also costly. In addition, every newly-wed couple spends
3,500 yuan for honeymoon pictures, 6,000 yuan for jewelry, 2,000 yuan for
clothes, and some 10,000 yuan for honeymoon trip.
A year ago, the survey from the Shanghai Marriage Celebration Association
showed that every new couple in Shanghai spent 160,000 yuan on average
for their marriage. In three years�� time, the figure rose by 30,000
yuan. Four years ago, it would have cost a new couple some 50,000 yuan to
arrange a marriage celebration.
Of course, not every couple can afford extravagant marriage celebration.
Related information showed that 50% of the marriage costs are shared by
parents. For those low- and middle-income families, expensive celebration
is nothing but a financial burden.

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