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经济寒潮中 你打算用多少钱举办婚礼

2009-05-06来源:和谐英语


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在英国,平均每场婚礼需要花费二万三千英镑。虽然是经济不景气的时候,但是婚礼是人生大事,岂能草率操办?
仅仅有百分之六的人选择减少他们在婚纱拍摄上的开支。另外,也只有百分之十的人选择在婚礼现场少布置一些鲜花。不过,有百分之四十八的人表示要重新考虑度蜜月的计划。确实,旅行是一笔不小的开销。

It's the biggest and the most expensive party you ever likely to host, the average UK wedding now costs around 23,000 pounds. The more the credit crunch isn’t stopping couples tying the knot. Many aren't prepared to get tied up in financial knots.

There goes an idea what stout should look in forth, no I've got a few different ideas, Er, quite like a raincheck.

Something old and something nearly new. Bristol bride-to-be Catherine has come to Bernard’s in his London to find her dream dress, but it's no fantasy, this collection includes well-known labels and at a third of the price.

"As I'm walking around in my ceremony, I don't think people are gonna say: “Oh, you know, I can tell about one is not as expensive', I think it's in your own head. And I’m, I'm quiet happy with that, you know, if it means I have a gown that costs half as much, it means we can spend money, you know, in the other places, maybe we can go to a fancy honeymoon, maybe."

And some don’t even try before they buy, E-bay this year have so far seen a 60% increase in wedding dress listings, and a 200% increase in engagement ring sales, and recession have couples planning to say I do, are increasingly deciding no candle in other areas too, just 6% are prepared to slash their wedding photography budget, while 10% are choosing fewer flowers, though a staggering 49% are rethinking their honeymoon plans. In fact, so concerned that many of their menu or cadre forced victim, to the credit crunch wedding insurance is booming.

"It's a difficult time, and some narrows, some businesses are struggling, and therefore wedding insurance gives you a piece of mind ever does go wrong, actually you can go out, you can go fortunate place, that's a supply of someone else"

Here have a look, it's been going on my mind for about 10 years, what only our couples becoming more savvy, the recessions turning the mean to hard-nosed bargain hunters, only for that here though at luckiest handily a prompt hands, you can get 40% off the high of the venue and apparently first day is the new Saturday.

"Predominately Saturday is always the key day to have the party wedding whatever, I'm on Fridays, Sundays, and I was saying a lot more activity, because it's cheaper."So how much can you really save? Recruitment consultant Lucy and James are footing at least half of their wedding costs. Dress, insurance, so they are doing a little recruiting of their own, friends are taking care of their photography, flowers and the cars, and by cutting down on numbers, they've saved around 10,000 pounds.

"That's was current climate, maybe there's a redundancy could be around the corner, things like that, it's a few things to have the debt really off the wedding as well. We have saved money on the honeymoon, and we have all these forgiveness from contributions, from people. Nothing nowadays it is not more acceptable to do that"

So it seems that tripped down the aisle hasn't lost its attraction after all. It's just couples want to do it for richer, rover than poor.