I am somebody who does not believe in marriage. How many marriages end in divorce? Too many! This is one of the reasons why I do not personally believe in getting married. The latest reports on the long term success of marriage confirmed that one in two marriages end in divorce and that the majority of these divorces are granted within the first ten years of married life. Well that’s a good stat isn’t it? Makes you want to walk up the isle next week doesn’t it? Call me a cynic if you want to, I prefer to see myself as a realist.

As you will no doubt tell as you read through this article I am in no way involved in the “marriage industry”; I am actually involved in offering cheap hotel deals, I also work on a project offering training for foster carers as well as one selling affordable composite doors.

In September of last year I was invited to attend a wedding of a good friend of mine. The day arrived and I drove my family to the hotel where the ceremony was going to take place. Boy was it a lavish affair! There were violinists playing as you entered the venue and the whole event was, in my opinion, far too over done. The “happy couple” must have spent a small fortune and I know for a fact that they did not receive any “outside help” from either set of parents.

In November, only two months after the wedding, the groom was made redundant from a company where he had worked for the last nine years. He is not the most skilled or educated of people and may well struggle to find employment in the near future (he is currently still out of work).

He has told me that the wedding has put him into debt in rather a big way but that it would have been OK if he had not have lost of job. Well we are in a credit crunch; we are in a recession; that is what happens I’m afraid.

It is time to get our heads out of the clouds and into the real world. Getting yourself in debt just so that your girlfriend can be a princess for the day is madness, this is 2009 and times are quite tough out there “in the real world”.

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