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Wedding bell balloons fly from a storefront in Rhinebeck, New York, July 26, 2010. |
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New York, where the average cost of a wedding is $65,824, is the most expensive city in the United States to get married but many couples will spend about $27,000 to tie the knot and that doesn't include the cost of the honeymoon. Most things in Manhattan and the New York metropolitan area are expensive and weddings are no exception, according to the wedding websites TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com, which polled nearly 18,000 US brides who were married in 2011 about the cost of their big day. Chicago came in second with wedding costs of $53,069, The price tags ranged from a high in Manhattan, which topped the poll of 20 cities to Detroit, where couples spend $27,017 on their nuptials. The state of West Virginia, where nuptials cost an average of $14,203, was the least expensive wedding location. "For the first time since 2008, wedding budgets are on the rise," said Carley Roney, cofounder of The Knot. "In 2011, one in five US couples spent more than $30,000, and 11 percent spent more than $40,000 on their weddings," she said. Anja Winikka, the site editor of TheKnot.com, said the economy could be playing a part in the rising price tags of weddings. "It probably has to do with attitudes toward economic recovery," she said. The overall cost of a wedding includes the venue, wedding planner, band and DJ, photographer, florist, videographer, dress, cake, ceremony site and musicians, invitations, limousine, favors, rehearsal dinner and engagement ring. The venue usually accounts for 50 percent of the budget and the average cost per guest is $196, according to Winikka, who added that 75 percent of couple contribute to the cost of their wedding. Brides, whose average age was 29, paid about $1,100 for their wedding dress, invited about 140 guests, had four to five bridesmaids and about a 14-month engagement, according to the survey. The average fee for the wedding planner was $1,753. Future brides are also planning further ahead, some more than 12 months in advance of the wedding. A hopeful 16 percent of potential brides started planning their big day before their prospective husband put a ring on their finger. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
最新調查顯示，2011年美國平均一場婚禮的開銷約為2.7萬美元，其中不包括蜜月。紐約是美國婚禮費用最高的城市，平均為65824美元。 美國婚慶網(wǎng)站“結緣”和“婚禮頻道”就婚禮花費調查了近1.8萬名2011年結婚的美國新娘。曼哈頓和紐約大都會區(qū)的大部分消費都非常昂貴，婚禮也不例外。 排在第二位的是芝加哥，平均婚禮花費為53069美元。曼哈頓地區(qū)結婚費用在受調查的20個城市中最高，而底特律的婚禮花費僅為27017美元。 西維吉尼亞州是全美最省錢的婚禮舉辦地，平均為14203美元。 “結緣”網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)始人之一卡莉?羅尼說：“這是自2008年以來婚禮預算首次上漲。2011年，五分之一的美國新婚夫婦為婚禮支出超過3萬美元，11%超過4萬美元?！?/p> “結緣”網(wǎng)站編輯阿尼婭?維尼卡說，經(jīng)濟狀況是導致2011年婚禮支出增加的因素之一。 她說：“這或許與人們看待經(jīng)濟復蘇的態(tài)度有關。” 婚禮花銷包括婚宴場地、婚慶策劃、樂隊及主持人、攝像師、鮮花、錄像師、禮服、婚禮蛋糕、儀式地點、樂師、喜帖、婚車、禮品、排練晚宴和訂婚戒指等等。 溫尼卡表示，婚宴場地費用一般占婚禮總費用的一半，宴請來賓平均每人的成本為196美元，75%的夫婦自己承擔婚禮的部分費用。 該調查發(fā)現(xiàn)，美國新娘的平均年齡為29歲，婚紗的平均費用1100美元，一般邀請140位來賓，有四、五名伴娘，平均訂婚時間為14個月。 婚禮策劃費用平均為1753美元。準新娘提前很早就開始準備婚禮，一些人的準備時間超過一年。還有大約16%的準新娘甚至在男友求婚之前就開始計劃了。 相關閱讀 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: tie the knot: 結婚 limousine: 豪華轎車 |
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