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The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that the number of marriages taking place in the UK have fallen by 2.7% since 2006. There were 270,000 weddings in the UK in 2007, the lowest number since 1895. Recent reports suggest that the average wedding costs anything between £15,000 and £20,000. Many couples in their twenties and thirties are already seriously financially constrained by the combined effect of student debt and rising house prices and this, together with the threat of redundancy, makes marriage now a cost that many can ill-afford.