Wedding service industry booms in China (CHINADAILY
More than 130,000 couples in Beijing will get married this year, and they will spend about 3 billion yuan(US$375 million) in related services, according to the national wedding servicecommittee.
Grand banquet celebration charges, bills for wedding rings, dressings,souvenir pictures and honeymoon trips attribute to the high expenditure,Beijing-based China Daily quotes Shi Kangning, secretary-general of the NationalCommittee of Wedding Service Industry, as saying on Friday.
“Children of the baby boomers, born in mid-1950s, are now in their 20s. Theyare ready to get married, creating a huge market for the wedding serviceindustry,” Shi said.
In Beijing, the average cost for a wedding ceremony is about 80,000 yuan,excluding bills for rings, dressing and trips.
And, many young people prefer to arrange and design their ceremony in aspecial, unique and unforgettable way by the involvement of wedding companies.
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