Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT*BERLIN* — The places sound exotic: a mansion in Manor by the Lake in England, a romantic estate in Scotland, or a big bash in Las Vegas. But Lili Huber (not her real name) isn’t looking for a great place to vacation. She’s browsing through the www.abgesagtehochzeiten.de (Canceled Weddings) website.
A few days ago, she and her boyfriend decided to get married, but they want to spend as little money as possible on the wedding.
Huber heard from an acquaintance about the portal, which mainly sells canceled weddings in the United States and the UK. And because she preferred to marry as far away as possible from where she lives — Berlin — the tip was just what the doctor ordered.
The market for canceled weddings is still very small in Germany, but it’s booming in the Anglo-Saxon world. That’s also because weddings there are often very opulent and correspondingly expensive. In the United States, a wedding costs on average $25,000 (around 20,000 euros). And that’s not counting the engagement ring or the honeymoon.
In Britain, couples spend on average 36,000 pounds (over 40,000 euros). The American wedding industry alone is worth $51 billion and employs 800,000 people. The entire English-language market turns...
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