LETTER: Can't afford a church wedding
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Sir: I have been reading reports from the General Synod of the Church or England regarding marriage and deploring the drop in the number of church marriages, but nowhere have I seen any reference to the high cost of getting married in a state church today.
For young unemployed couples, living on state benefit and trying to get a home together, this might be partly the answer. Without help from parents who might also be on a low income, it might seem impossible.
Maybe the Church should take a tip from the main street banks, which offer university students interest-free loans in the hope that when circumstances improve they will retain the students' custom. Has the Church not heard of the widow's mite?
Yours faithfully,
M. Harris
Coleford,
Gloucestershire
6 December
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