When you find the love of your life little do you know it, but you’re also embarking on what could very well be one of the most expensive spending sprees of your life. In love, as in life, as they say, you have two choices – you can either leave it to chance, fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it, or up the stakes and go for broke.
When it comes to finding love the latter could put a serious dent in your bank balance. The fact that the online dating industry is estimated to be worth £2billion tells you that it is indeed big business.The array of dating sites out there makes finding your ideal partner anything from free to about £100 a year. According to Maestro, the debit card company, people spend on average £200 on every date.
While men spend almost 10 times as much as women on buying drinks and meals, women match the amount spent on themselves as part of their pre-date preparations (you know, the outfit, the trips to the beauty salon and so on). And with someone having sat down that the average single person goes on three dates a year, that’s £600 spent all in. Although of course how long it takes this ‘average’ person to find The One must be even more impossible to calculate.
Total cost: Let’s be kind and say they find their true love within 18 months, so that’s a spend of £1,000 including the cost of a little help from an average-price online dating agency.
Incredible stuff,so oyibo's have managed to calculate to some point how much it cost's to fall in love. In Nigeria we'll be getting some astronomical amounts starting from various ranges of bride prices for various ethnic groups in the country, the cost of the traditional marriage, court marriage and the almighty white wedding!! After some very serious soul reflection, I have concluded that love does cost a thing....
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