Sentence examples for cost of wedding from inspiring English sources

Willetts may have the air of an Oxford don, but he is a canny politician, as he demonstrates when he turns to the sensitive matter of the ballooning cost of wedding ceremonies.

Ms. Taylor's impeccable research has turned up fascinating details: from Elizabeth Emanuel's wedding dress sketches, through an ivory parasol against the threat of British rain clouds, to a letter from Frances Shand Kydd, Diana's mother, discreetly haggling over the cost of wedding and bridesmaids' gowns (at one thousand guineas the lot, according to royal tradition).

According to the International Cake Exploration Society, the largest global organization dedicated to the art and business of cake decoration, the cost of wedding cake has almost doubled in the last 10 years, to a national average of $4 per slice.

For these couples, the cost of wedding photo shoots consumes up to 15% of the entire cost of their wedding.

Even though the cost of wedding photography may be high, your photographer will still expect a tip.

The magazine, which has been monitoring the cost of weddings for 12 years, has added new categories to its survey, including beauty treatments and hen and stag nights, to better reflect the cost of modern weddings.

The fuss, folly and high cost of weddings in the United States suggests a civilization out of whack, if not in decline.

Atta Mohammad Noor, the governor of Balkh Province in the north, became so concerned about the spiraling cost of weddings that early last year he issued a nonbinding decree recommending that the province's wedding halls be used only for the wedding ceremony.

Under pressure to significantly cut their budgets and invent new ways of raising extra revenue, councils up and down the country have been increasing the cost of weddings and funerals, often far beyond the rate of inflation.

And almost half the men between 30 and 34 were unmarried in 2005, more than three times as many as 30 years ago.But the cost of weddings may be the least of the reasons why the Japanese are increasingly putting off marriage or avoiding it altogether.

Until recently, the cost of weddings, education and apartments came from years of careful savings by parents or grandparents.