Tricity writes about the fact that fewer and fewer people decide to get married at the altar. The daily refers, among others, to: to data from Gdańsk, according to which the gap between the number of civil and church weddings is widening. This was already visible in 2018: then 881 couples promised each other marital love in the Church, and 1,033 got married in a civil ceremony.
In 2023, the crisis deepens – reports Wyborcza. According to the Civil Registry Office in Gdańsk, 1,062 civil weddings were recorded in 2023. 907 of them were concluded in the office and 155 outside it. In turn, there were only 376 concordat vows – i.e. those in which the marriage is valid both under civil and canon law. The difference is therefore crushing.
Fewer and fewer couples make vows at the altar
This means that marriages concluded at the altar accounted for only 26 percent of all weddings that took place last year in Gdańsk. However, it turns out that a similar trend also persists in Gdynia. According to Wyborcza, in 2023, concordat weddings accounted for only 20 percent of all marriages concluded there. In 2018, for example, this percentage was over 39%. A similar situation applies to Sopot. In 2023, out of 278 weddings, only 60 took place in the church.
Are church weddings affected by a crisis?
Why is this happening? Wyborcza asked Piotr Pawłowski, coordinator of the Secular School, about this. – The year-by-year decline in the number of concordat weddings is certainly a sign of the visible process of secularization of society – he says.
I also hear a lot of opinions that young people often do not want to spend too much money on a wedding, and the costs of the church version are certainly higher than those offered by the registry office.
– says Pawłowski in an interview with GW.
Source: Gazeta
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