Today is the holiday of all those in love - Saint Valentine's Day - and I am going to go for a mildly serious topic. Oh yes! I just cannot help it. I was recently part of a mini wedding (by the way, the whole thing cost 150 Euro, yes, you read that right) and I would like to share with you a few observations on this endless wedding topic.
Many consider marriage, "I quote", an outdated thing, a pointless piece of paper or wasted money. I allow myself to completely disagree. Yes, a wedding may be a less essential and rather costly event, but marriage itself is truly important. The main advantage arising from marriage is first of all a shared surname (if you are planning or already have a family), then jointly acquiring property also on the legal level, the right to receive health information in case of illness, inheritance rights and thousands of other everyday little things. And so I cannot imagine any reasons why I would want to be a single mother with children. Rather give up the pomp and have a pleasant inexpensive wedding, even on a Tuesday for example, like our neighbours, who did it with just the gentlemen and disappeared to Thailand the next day.. 
And if yours does not want to marry you, then find out the real reasons why, and do not let yourself be fobbed off with empty promises...
And finally a bit of statistics 
In 2015, more than 28 thousand marriages were concluded in Slovakia and 10 thousand couples divorced. Slovakia has very good numbers and a declining tendency of divorces; for every 100 marriages there are only (!) 34 divorces. For example, neighbouring Hungary or the Czech Republic has as much as a 60% divorce rate, and the record holders in this respect are the Belgians, where out of 100 marriages more than 70 end in divorce.
Wow...what to add, except that we keep our fingers crossed for you that it works out, fortunately in Slovakia we are not statistically the worst off 
foto: Matúš Hybben, Outfits: Matias: Tuxedo and shirt: H&M, Emma: lace dress Reserved
