Brits fork out 1.7 billion

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Brits Fork Out 1.7 Billion

Brits fork out 1.7 billion

More than a quarter (24 per cent) of British couples who married in last two years did so on foreign shores, forking out a total of £1.7billion* for the privilege, according to new research from Direct Line Home Insurance.

The research reveals a 15 per cent rise in overseas weddings in the last ten years, with a quarter (26 per cent) of those couples planning marriage in the next two years intending to do so abroad.

This compares with the one in ten (nine per cent) who headed off to foreign shores to get hitched between 1996 and 2001.

However, for some these happy occasions have a downside. More than 43,000 (2 per cent)** arrived back from their overseas wedding to discover that they had been burgled.

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And as one in six (15 per cent) received their wedding gifts, worth an average of £1739, prior to jetting off, many lost their gifts without having the chance to enjoy them.

The desire to escape irritating relatives was one of the main reasons for marrying abroad, with more than a quarter (27 per cent) saying this is why they fled our shores.

Other motivations include guaranteed good weather (33 per cent) and the desire to roll wedding and honeymoon into one (39 per cent).

It also appears that foreign weddings are no longer the intimate affairs that they once were – more than two million people (six per cent) have recently been invited to an overseas wedding.

The Direct Line Home Insurance research also reveals that 63 per cent of those planning marriage in the next two years will marry in the UK, with their weddings costing them an average of £3,102 each.

Direct Line Home Insurance spokesperson Simon Ziviani comments:

“Affordable airfares, a sense of adventure and the drudgery of British weather mean that overseas weddings are more popular than they have ever been.

“It’s great that couples are choosing to reward themselves in this way, but it’s also extremely important that they make sure that their home contents are fully covered before they jet off.

“Our research tells us that nearly half (48 per cent) of newlyweds do not re-assess their home contents insurance after they marry. This is very unwise and means that many couples may receive a nasty surprise when they return from their dream wedding to find they have been burgled.”

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Top five overseas wedding locations:

South Africa (6 per cent)

St Lucia (5 per cent)

Mauritius (4 per cent)

Las Vegas (4 per cent)

Antigua (4 per cent)

The research was carried out online from 3-6 March 2006. YouGov interviewed a total of 2,113 UK adults aged 18 and above. Results were weighted to be representative of the UK population.

* 1,688,050 were married in the last two years. Of these, 405,132 (24 per cent) were married abroad, at an average cost of £4,356. Therefore the total spent on overseas weddings in 2005 was 4,356 x 405,132 = £1,764,754,992.

** 2 per cent of respondents who were married abroad say that they arrived home to discover they had been burgled.

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