No wonder it’s the country that produced Four Weddings And A Funeral!

According to a new UK survey by those ultra-romantics, home insurance company LV= about one in four British adults (11.1 million) will go to a wedding this year.

But of those, 59% said their plans for the wedding (snogging the best man, swiping the flowers – only joking) had changed because of the recession. Twenty-five percent of those attending saying they cannot afford to spend as much going to and buying gifts for the wedding as they would have otherwise, and a further 24% said the bride and groom don’t expect them to spend as much because of the GFC.

Men are apparently spending only about  £62 each on wedding gifts (hey kids, that’s still not bad!!!) while women are splashing out only about £40. Overall, guests are reducing their wedding spend per person by £37, creating an amazing £178 million  loss for the British wedding industry.

One in five (19%) said they wouldn’t go to the wedding unless they were close to the people involved. No wonder. With 2.8 million Brits travelling to Europe (or further) for a wedding in the last 18 months, and 1.4 million plan to escape somewhere that doesn’t speak English over the remainder of this year, that’s a lot of wedding gifts to buy. The average couple spend over £300 per wedding they attend.

Tags: wedding gifts

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