COMMENT This is why millennials like me are still getting married
I was never the girl who imagined getting married; who envisioned exactly what splashy white dress she'd wear, or who'd been plotting out every detail of her "fairytale day" since age seven.
In 2001, Australia’s crude new marriage rate was 5.3 per 1000 people. A decade later in 2011, this number was 5.4 per 1000 people. And in 2017, the rate was 4.6 per 1000 people, however the Australian Bureau of Statistics states amendments to the Marriage Act in 2017 to legalise same-sex marriage may have impacted the registration system, resulting in this figure being understated.
“There is a general feeling that marriage is important because people see it as a sign of commitment coming together as a union… It’s not connected to religion or feeling they need to consummate this or for any reason other than saying ‘this is who I want to be with’,” Ms McCormack says. And being in the digital age, Ms McCormack says Instagram also has a part to play in the appeal of weddings.
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