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    Kirchliche Trauungen sinken auf Rekordtief, da junge Paare die Ehe meiden

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    1. StGuthlac2025 on

      I get how they’re not for everyone now but I loved mine in my local Church. My wife even walked form the house to it in her dress. Ceremonies I’ve attended that are not held in a church just feel like they don’t have the same reverence to the ceremony.

    2. AllThatIHaveDone on

      Good. The sooner we separate the concepts of _marriage_ and _organised religion_, the better.

    3. Striking_Smile6594 on

      This headline is contradictory. It’s not marriage that is being shunned, but weddings in churches.

    4. PrestigiousTourist75 on

      It still hasn’t sunk in that the UK isn’t a Christian country anymore it’s actually majority Atheist…

    5. radiant_0wl on

      Probably outweighed by the divorce regime in this country.

      Someone posted in legal advice UK yesterday about their situation, man saved diligently his entire live, woman spent frivolously and gambled her pension pot away and in £40k in debt.

      Went to get a divorce consultation and was told she’d be entitled to up to 70% of his assets Inc pension.

      Doesn’t exactly inspire people to get married.

    6. Acceptable-Pin2939 on

      Who would have guessed in a cost of living crisis less people are spunking 1000s on a party.

    7. RelevantCucumber6305 on

      Doubt it’s anything to do with the venue of the wedding.

      It’s most likely due to the scam that’s weddings these days.

      I looked into it years ago and the minimum I could get it down to in most places was nearly £10k for a shitty venue room and a crappy dj.

      A lot of people dont have the money for such an expense or would rather use that money for a deposit 

    8. SeePerspectives on

      Young people can barely even afford to move out. It’s less that they’re “shunning marriage” and more that everything marketed for weddings costs 5 times more than normal despite not actually being any more expensive to produce or procure, and the media pushes the narrative that spending tens of thousands on a single day (or in some cases a single dress to wear on one single day) is not only normal but that not doing so means you have some kind of moral failing.

      I know people who got in hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt for their wedding, only to have the marriage break down within a couple of years.

    9. filbert94 on

      Spending silly money on legal proceedings that are a pain to organise and, statistically, have a reasonable chance in ending an unfair financial mess.

      All while struggling to pay rent.

    10. yepiyep on

      Are there any advantages to getting married nowadays? It’s really expensive and stressful to organize. I barely make any money already, why would I spend thousands on such an event?

      I’m French and over there almost everyone is just getting civil partnerships.

    11. BlaziingDemon on

      Good, no reason to get married..you love each other that’s enough if one side is forcing marriage it’s normally a bad sign.

    12. Sweet-Service-3914 on

      At last! It’s about time some commonsense was adopted by some people about to marry.
      I know at least 2 darft bridezillers who blew thousands of pounds on massive, pretentious wedding do’s.
      Ridiculous, because neither of their marriages lasted for longer than 2yrs!
      Personally, I got married with a few family members & my dog. It was a joyous, lovely memorable dayl All for the cost of the licence & booze & nice, proper, edible, normal food.

    13. Mother_of_llamas on

      Well yeah less people are religious, I was raised Catholic but I won’t be having a church wedding.

    15. Sea-Caterpillar-255 on

      I thought Labour were going to relax the law so people could get married in forests and on beaches etc?

      If that ever comes in it will slump all the more

    17. Morris_Alanisette on

      How is this even news? Marriage rates have been declining for half a century. Religion has also been declining for longer than that. Neither of these things can be news to anyone, surely?

    18. Wackylew on

      Me and my wife got married last year, cost us about £1k for everything, my suit my picked up from different places her dress, the weekend away etc.

      Five years previous we were looking to spend maybe 10-15k in a nice lake venue. I’m so glad we waited and spent the £1k lol

    19. JobAnxious2005 on

      Wait until the older generation die out, then church attendance will really fall

    20. negligiblespecies on

      When we got married nearly 20 years ago, we *did* look into a church wedding because my mother-in-law really wanted it. But the hoops they expected us to jump through were wild. My husband would have had to live in a caravan for two weeks, six months before the wedding, just so he’d technically belong to the parish long enough. Two weeks. In a caravan. For paperwork.

      We took one look at all that nonsense and decided a church wedding wasn’t worth it. And honestly? It was cheaper and far less stressful in the end.

    21. buginarugsnug on

      Headline failing to mention they’re shunning religion at a faster rate than marriage

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