HONG KONG: decreasing wedding prices are increasingly being seen across the world, however it is possibly when you look at the aging societies of Asia that the growing wide range of singletons is stressing moms and dads — and governments — many.
In Asia, moms and dads have actually taken up to offering leaflets in matchmaking parks, usually with no younger generation’s knowledge; in Japan, blind relationship cafes make an effort to put up busy experts over some coffee and dessert, and when they find no chemistry, there’s constantly going back once again to slogging away at work.
A preference for baby boys has resulted in a massive gender imbalance and men who can’t find a wife at home, so they’ve turned to marriage migrants: Foreign women are now getting married to Korean men to escape poverty in South Korea. Continue reading «The wedding challenge: Can the trend of decreasing wedding prices in East Asia be reversed?»