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09/26/09
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Cost of marriage in Tehran: Thirty Grands
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TEHRAN, Sept. 26 (Mehr News Agency) -- According to a research conducted by the Tehran Shahid
Beheshti University, it costs at least 30 million tomans (about $29,000) per
person in the capital city of Tehran to get married.
Traditional Iranian wedding ceremony depicted in a teahouse painting by Abbas
Boloukifar
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"The cost of marriage in Iran is at least 30 million tomans," head of the
research team Majid Abhari said, largely blaming high cost of living for delay
in marriage among the Tehrani youngsters.
Buying wedding rings, renting wedding halls, cars, photographs, video, and
wedding cakes as well as wedding dress, veil and flowers are among costs brides
and bridegrooms will usually pay for a large part by themselves, the sociologist
explained.
He also described providing housing and dowry as the main concerns brides and
bridegrooms are up against in Tehran.
Abhari called the alarming rise in the cost of living in Tehran metropolis the
major reason behind the rapid increase in the marriage age of the Tehrani youth.
According to Abhari, there has been a decrease of 70 percent in marriage rate
among the Iranian youth over the second six months of the last Iranian year of
1387 (September 23, 2008-March 20, 2009).
Abhari also stressed the importance of receiving proper counseling before
getting married and highlighted that only 2 percent of such marriages end in
divorce.
According to figures of state Birth Registration Organization, there were a
number of 110,510 divorces recorded in 1387 (March 2008-March 2009).
Men aged between 25 and 29 and women 20 to 24 accounts for the highest rate of
divorce, the figure showed.
There was a rise of 11 percent in the country's divorce rate, compared with the
last year.
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