The precautionary measures to combat the Corona virus contributed to reducing the costs of marriage, and avoiding young people resorting to banks to borrow from them, after the decision of the competent authorities to close the wedding halls and women's and men's salons, as citizens and residents restricted their wedding parties to family members of the first degree, without music bands or banquets .
Some of them estimated the savings they saved by more than 180,000 dirhams. They said they were planning to travel outside the country, after the crisis, to compensate their life partners for canceling the party, while others confirmed that the amount available was sufficient to launch a project.
In detail, the wedding guest, Omar Salem Al Shehhi, 32, said that he got married on April 10, and the marriage costs were supposed to exceed 180,000 dirhams, including 90,000 dirhams for both men's and women's wedding halls, 18,000 dirhams for hairdressers, and 15,000 dirhams fees. Popular band, plus the rest of the costs that include wedding dress, banquets and sweets.
He added: “After the state’s decision to close the wedding and women's halls and salons, I saved myself the full amount, because
I canceled the ceremony in agreement with my family and my wife's family. Both families accepted precautions, wearing masks and gloves. We also informed the invitees of sending only congratulations on social media, without going home. ”
He pointed out that he went from his home to his wife's family home and took her to the marital home with the application of the precautionary measures imposed by the state, explaining that “everyone was happy with the new marriage procedures, because the happiness of the spouses is the most important thing in the wedding.”
The wedding, citizen Rashid Saeed, stated that he canceled his wedding ceremony despite his reservation at the wedding hall since the beginning of the year, as he was scheduled to marry at the end of this April.
He continued that he had rearranged the wedding ceremony after applying the precautionary measures, and contacted the wedding hall to retrieve the value of the reservation. He also recovered the women's salon reservation fees and the band's fees.
He said that he saved himself more than 160 thousand dirhams of the costs of marriage, as he decided to marry at his home, at a mini wedding party of only 10 people, with masks and gloves and the provision of sterilization tools.
He added that he took his wife to his home and agreed to save the cost of marriage to launch their new project, after the end of the "Corona" crisis.
He pointed out that the two families were receptive to the precautionary and preventive measures to prevent the spread of the Corona virus, and that the safety of the couple and their families is more important than conducting the wedding ceremony or violating state instructions.
Gather Raed Hasaballah, of Arab nationality, indicated that he was in the process of marrying at the beginning of next May, but the current conditions and the spread of Corona virus made him present the date of the ceremony and hold it at home with the participation of the first-degree relatives of the bride, out of respect for the precautionary measures imposed by the state To protect society from the Corona virus.
He explained that he saved himself the costs of the women's and men's wedding hall and the costs of banquet and women's beauty salon, which exceeds 150 thousand dirhams. He added that he decided to take his wife on an entertainment trip after the end of the "Corona" virus crisis in compensation for the wedding.
He pointed out that the precautionary measures helped many young people to marry in their homes, thus saving a lot of expenses, and limiting the attendance to the spouses and their families.
He continued that he felt happy because the marriage took place prematurely, and everyone agreed on the importance of precautionary measures in the country to limit the spread of the Corona virus.
Return the reservation fee
With the beginning of the “Corona” crisis and the closing of wedding halls, Emirati businessman Fahd Al Shirawi, from Ras Al Khaimah, announced the return of the value of the reservation fees for women and men’s wedding halls that citizens and residents had booked, wishing to cancel or postpone their wedding ceremony, as a precautionary measure to limit the spread of the “Corona” virus. ».
Al-Shirawi said that he had returned the wedding hall fees to more than 80 wedding parties who had reserved wedding halls and the halls he owned in Ras Al-Khaimah and Dibba Al-Hisn, in support of the state’s efforts in its precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the Corona virus.
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