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The average cost of a wedding with *** guests in Spain stood at * euros as of September 2023. This includes the expenses laid out for all products and services, such as clothing, music, banquet and invitations. The price of a wedding can vary greatly and is highly conditioned by the future new weds’ financial means or their taste. Thus, the price of a wedding in Spain could potentially balloon up to * euros and go as down as * euros. Over the past 16 years, the cost of a wedding dwindled slightly, except for a short-lived upward trend witnessed between 2013 and 2019.

Spain: the Europeans that tie the knot the oldest

The mean age at first marriage in Spain was, along with Sweden, one of the highest in the European Union. Based on this setting, it is no wonder that many Spanish autonomous communities featured quite elevated average age at the time of marriage - particularly in the Canary Islands, where the average age at first marriage stood at around 42 years old for men and nearly ** for women.

Easy come easy go

Marriage might be undergoing a declining popularity among Spaniards, or so it would seem by its national (heterosexual) marriage figures, which have experienced a slight decrease over the last years. This information translates into a national average of around **** marriages per 1,000 inhabitants, with the region of Ceuta recording the highest numbers on the list of marriage rate in Spain. On top of that, Spain also appears at the top of the list of the highest divorce rates in Europe, with ** divorces per 100 marriages carried out in this country, only exceeded by the rate of Portugal.