Couples Who Are Likely To Divorce According To Celebrity Dad, ELdee | Do You Agree?
Veteran Nigerian hip-hop artiste, Olanrewaju Dabiri, better known by his stage name Eldee has words of advice for Nigerians intending to marry.
According to the 46-year-old married dad, couples who prioritize money spent on an engagement and wedding ring are more likely to divorce. He stated this in a recent post shared via his Instagram story.
The father 0f two went further to explain that prioritising expensive engagement or wedding rings is “generally not financially responsible.”
Eldee wrote,
“The more money a couple spends on their wedding and engagement rings, the more likely they are to divorce, study reveals.
“No surprise here… People who prioritize these kinds of expenses are generally not Financially responsible in the first place. So… They’ll fall out eventually, and it’ll be over money.”
Well, according to the new study, couples who spend liberally on their weddings are more likely to get divorced than those who stick to a tight budget.
The survey – which was undertaken by economics professors, Andrew Francis-Tan and Hugo M Mialon – looked at the weddings and marriages of over 3,000 people in the United States.
The study found on the whole that the more you spend on your wedding, the more likely you are to get divorced.
One example of this was related to the amount of money spent on an engagement ring being inversely associated with the duration of the marriage. The more expensive the ring, the more likely the couple will get divorced, particularly if the ring costs over £1,500.
“Specifically, in the sample of men, spending between $2,000 (about £1,500) and $4,000 (£3,000) on an engagement ring is associated with a 1.3 times greater hazard of divorce as compared to spending between $500 (£376) and $2,000 (£1,500),”
the paper states.
A similar statistic was found when looking at how much couples spent on the ceremony, with more affordable weddings tending to lead to more successful marriages.
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The study found that weddings that cost less than $1,000 (about £760) show a significant decrease in the likelihood of divorce compared with those who spend over $20,000 (£15,000), increasing the likelihood by 1.6 in the sample of women.
However, the study did find that spending money on a honeymoon is worthwhile, as taking a post-wedding trip is “significantly associated with a lower hazard of divorce”.
So it might be worth cutting back on some of the more expensive wedding-day costs and putting the money towards a lovely holiday instead.