Should the UK government pay for your wedding?

State-funded weddings could help solve the UK’s loneliness epidemic and save employers more than £2bn a year, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which is calling for the government to offer low-income couples £550 to put towards their cakes and flowers.
The think tank, founded by Iain Duncan Smith, said married people were found to be significantly less lonely than single people but that people were discouraged from tying the knot due to the high costs of weddings. While the average wedding in the UK clocks in at around £20,755, the CSJ suggested their more modest contribution could go a significant way towards the expenses of a registry wedding, which on average costs around £1,342.
Funding would also be contingent on recipients attending a marriage preparation course to ensure relationships were “stable and secure”.
The report emphasised the specific advantages of marriage over cohabitation, with married people apparently less lonely than those who just live with their partners. The CSJ called the conflation of marriage and cohabitation in government research an “act of historic neglect”.
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Another stupid idea - expensive cake or registration fees isn't really stopping people committing to a lifetime together.