WEDDINGS IN SPAIN

Today I was surfing the net and found an article about weddings in Spain . It told weddings decreased since this world crisis started . I read prizes and understood why people don’t marry . The link is:

http://revista.consumer.es/web/es/20070401/actualidad/informe1/71421_4.php

The first most interesting thing is wedding dress . The woman’s wedding dress costs among 1.030 and 7.200 euros . The man’s wedding suit costs among 510 and 2.850 euros. Men always were cheaper . Moreover man’s wedding suit could be used another times . However the woman’s wedding dress is a smart white dress like a princess . No one dress like this another times I think . Though maybe Lady Gaga would do it . Could you see make-up and hairdressers expenses? Among 100 and 750 euros . Another expensive thing is wedding ring . Some people pay about 2.200 euros though there are cheaper rings for 120 euros . Depends on How you love your fiancée . In every wedding is celebrated a kind of show which costs among 400 and 2.900 euros . The mass, a music band, flowers, etc …I name this kind of shows : “circus” .
Anyway the most expensive thing is “the wedding reception” . Among 6.350 and 16.200 euros !!! Incredible !!! A lot of people will eat nice food while a band music play popular songs . And finally honeymoon . It depends on the place choosen, though use to be among 1.200 and 6.000 euros . In all, a typical spanish wedding use to costs among 10.800 and 42.300 euros . However only a few people spend less than 20.000 euros . Madrid and Valencia are the most expensive places where costs 22.000 and 21.500 euros . The cheaper places are Extremadura and Canarias where costs 16.350 and 16.200 respectively . Whatever for the most happy day of your life .
After a couple is married they start to living together . The need a home so they buy a house . Why? Because spanish people thinks that they never could live in a renting house . If they do, people would think that they are poor . You know, this is typical spanish ignorance . Despite of house’s prize in Spain is decreasing, still it is very expensive . More or less it costs 240.000 euros . They probably will need a mortgage loan . Nowdays IBEX35 is so high so they will pay a high rate of interest . In all that house would costs 400.000 euros . Just the house . They will need furnitures, a kitchen , beds, and so on . And they will have to pay bills of water, electricity, phone, and local property tax for ever .

Every couple decide to buy a big car . Nowdays they use to buy a “minivan” . That would be useful if they would have children . They are not sure if they will have children but they buy a minivan . A minivan can cost among 15.000 and 30.000 euros .

I told before that they are not sure about having children . Now you will know why . I read an interesting study about this . It told that one child costs among 98.205 and 301.274 euros just during his first eighteen years of life . From that moment on, they are even more expensive . You have to pay their studies, clothes, or food . All these things are more expensive than when they were children . University is more expensive than a high school . Child clothes are cheaper than adult clothes, and they eat more than before . Moreover they need money every weekend to go out and having fun . Thirty years ago boys left parents home when they were twenty years old . Nowdays only a few of them leave parents home when they are thirty years old . This means the most of young people live at parents home for ever . So for example when your boy is fourty years old you would have spend more than 200.000 euros . Having a children must be a wonderful experience . The best experience in life, though, is worth it?

Now I understand another interesting article which I read on the Internet by “agenciasic” ( catholic service information ) . It told about marriages and births are decreasing in late years . Eduardo Hertfelder said marriages’ decrease in Spain and Europe is dramatic . Since 2000 to 2007 it decreased 8.75% . Since 2007 to 2011 more, I suppose .

In time of crisis people reduce all kind of expenses . If you get married and make a family you will be very happy ( or not ) but you will have a many expenses . You will have to work hard to pay debts all of your life . You will live worried about if you will be able to pay back . If you live in Spain you would have many chance of being unemployed, so, what would happen then? If you don’t have money you could lose your house and all your money that you had paid . Your children could be hungry . And your wife could break with you and marry with another wealthy man .

Maybe all these things are why less people decide to marry . What do you think about get married? Would you like try it? Or do you prefer being single all your life? Write your comments . By the way, we had a wonderful wedding a few years ago . Our prince get married with Leticia . That wedding cost 4.113.000 euros . There were another two weddings like this before: “Infanta Elena” and ”Infanta Cristina” . Multiply that amount by 3 . All that money was paid by spanish people . Advantages of living in monarchy . Goodbye !!!

Princess of Spain's Wedding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9gbEi6qxg