Brides and Grooms Continue to Turn Their Back on the Church
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(PRWEB) August 25, 2006
WeddingChaos.co.uk has conducted a survey of finished 1,200 people to learn out where they will get married.
Results show that a reduced amount of than 48% of couples want a traditional church wedding – echoing the trend of declining numbers of church goers, and the go towards a more secular society.
Two years ago the Anglican Church, apprehensive in this area their falling numbers, debated whether to relax their current rules for church weddings, which instruct that the bride or groom must live or worship in the parish before to they can pace down the aisle in the church. Moreover, with no agreement yet reached by the church on this come forth, the rules wait unchanged, and the erosion in the numbers of church weddings continues. But, there are still many who want to continue with tradition; bride to be, Beverly Spencer, intends to buck the trend, Beverly and her husband to be will be “getting married in church in view of the fact that we are both deep Catholics.”
Yet the decline in church weddings has been a boost to licensed venues, with 26% of couples — up early only 5% in 1996 — now choosing to have a Civil Wedding in one of thousands of licensed venues right through the UK.
Licensed venues have the extra appeal of ‘convenience’, with couples often able to tie the knot, hold their wedding breakfast, and their sundown greeting, all at the constant location. The future Mrs Basin told us, “My fiancé and I are getting married in a licensed venue in view of the fact that he is not devout at all, even though I am. The greeting venue we have chosen is more than 20 miles gone early the church where we would have got married. It’s a long way for guests to trudge especially if they don’t have cars so it made sense to get married at the venue. Plus the licensed venue is really kind.”
A additional significant trend appears to be the number of couples (14%) who have chosen to turn their back, not only on the traditional church wedding, but also on the UK, as they opt to pace down the aisle in Europe (6%) or additional afield elsewhere in the world (8%). Wedding Chaos approached one bride to be, Rachel, to learn out why. Rachel is currently preparing her wedding in the Dominican Republic and told us “my fiancé and I are getting married abroad in view of the fact that we have been together near 10 years now and this will be my second marriage. We didn’t want to dissipate a fortune on just one day and wanted our friends and family ranking to delight in the wedding as part of an event. There are now just below 50 of us travelling for a 2 week all inclusive holiday at the Dominican Republic (at which we will also get married!). I reckon it has saved us a fortune!”
The remaining marriages, accounting for just 12% of couples, are held at the community Register Office.
With the trend in the UK moving increasingly towards a secular society, we expect to see more and more couples opting to get married both abroad and in licensed venues.
In this area WeddingChaos:
http://www.WeddingChaos.co.uk is a website dedicated to as long as aid and in rank for UK couples preparation their wedding, a directory of wedding professionals and a aid forum.
Contact:
Katherine Cartlidge
+44 845 094 1367
http://www.weddingchaos.co.uk/
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