Is it true that the average wedding cost in Beijing is 250 thousand?

According to the latest statistics of domestic professional organizations, the average expenditure of newly married couples in Beijing (excluding wedding rooms and decoration) is about 250,000 yuan, which is equivalent to the sum of the wages of ordinary young people in Beijing for more than two years.

Why is the cost of marriage getting higher and higher? Of course, on the one hand, due to the improvement of living standards, some young people have this kind of spending power by themselves or with the support of their families. But on the other hand, it can't be said that the rising wedding consumption is the result of the prevalence of consumerism and the increasing noise of various wedding services. In the past, wedding expenses and wedding banquet expenses were the bulk. It is not enough to invite people to dinner now. Before and after marriage, there are marriage proposal and engagement ceremonies, wedding photography, custom-made dresses and honeymoon trips. In short, there are many more expenditure items than in the past. Even for single items, taking wedding jewelry as an example, the "example card" in the past was ring+gold. Now, ring+proposal diamond ring+gold+watch has become a "standard". Under the "market segmentation", wedding consumption is only very expensive, and there is no reason to choose or not to choose. As a result, the merchants earned a lot of money, and the newlyweds survived the wedding and lamented the number of various bill cards. It is "a good time to get married, and pawn shop after marriage."

I really want to talk about it. Now, compared with weddings, from falling in love to getting married, the whole love is dominated by consumption. Once I gave a writing class to a student and wrote an essay on "romance": What do you think of when we mention the word "romance"? I asked the students to describe a romantic scene in their lives in detail. As a result, the items collected were either rose chocolates, candlelight dinners or trips with loved ones. What do these scenes have in common? That is spending money. If we don't spend, we can't create and imagine romance at all. And spending money to create romance, the peak moment is the wedding.

It seems understandable that young people pay for the romance of love and the uniqueness of weddings, and parents are willing to take out coffins for their children's scenery. However, excessive ostentation and extravagance beyond personal consumption power has little to do with love. In our human society, everyone is afraid of falling down on family events such as weddings, so it is not uncommon to hit a swollen face and pretend to be fat. In reality, some people even collect money in disguise by hosting banquets and spend a lot of money to do big things, which becomes part of the "early investment". On the other hand, no matter how grand the wedding is, it can't guarantee the long-term happiness of marriage. Marriage is getting more and more expensive, but the divorce rate is getting higher and higher; The parallel of the two seems to explain some truth.

"A monthly salary of 40? 0? 0 is not worth falling in love "and" I can't afford a wedding without eating or drinking for two years ". Such love news may exaggerate the real situation. However, it is also true that young people simply want to get married and will encounter pressure from all sides. When the sincerity of marriage is related to the amount of money paid, young people need courage to break through all kinds of "marriage routines". Fortunately, in recent years, the new customs of "mini-wedding" and "low-carbon wedding" are quietly popular among the people. There is no need to invite twenty tables for the wedding banquet, but one table is enough. In the wedding motorcade, you sent BMW Mercedes-Benz to parade in the city, and I chose low-carbon and environmentally-friendly vehicles such as tricycles and bicycles, which can also attract people's attention.

Of course, how much it costs to get married ultimately depends on the parties. I am here to cheer for simple weddings and other weddings, and to cheer and decompress those newcomers who follow their inner wishes and don't want to blindly follow the crowd.

Do what you can, don't waste money.