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Weddings are getting bigger and more expensive. What is the reason for this? Is it a positive or negative development?

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These days, marriage ceremonies are becoming avalanche and more costly. The decision to keep up with the Joneses and to be recognised could be the reason. In my opinion, I think it is a negative
development
. Nowadays,
people
 are now seeing life as a competition, everyone wants his or her name to be heralded and
also
 to be an everyday subject matter for discourse.
These
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has
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 led to
people
 competing among themselves which is no longer
verisimilar
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 tale in
this
 modern world. With the adoption of the mindset to always keep up with the Joneses, striving to reach the echelon of
a fellow cohorts
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 has led to the enormous number of weddings and the huge chunk of money attached to it. Weddings
has
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 recently
becomes
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 the game of opulent
people
. Despite the fact that the huge amount of money attached to it would propel
people
 to work
more
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harder and remain
focus
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in
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 life which is one of its positive
development
, I believe that the negative
development
supercedes
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supersedes
 its positive
development
. One of the negative
development
 that might
emanates
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 is that there
are
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 tendency for
people
 to engage in illicit acts and
misdemeanor
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such
 as kidnapping and robbery in order to meet up with the demand as regard to the avalanche of wherewithal required to have a befitting wedding.
This
 will result
to
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people
 living in fear and creating an unfavourable environment.
for example
, In
a
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 environment where there is incessant kidnapping and robbery,
people
 tend to seek
for
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another abode due to fear of being attacked. In conclusion,
people
 viewing life as a competition by always keeping up to the Joneses has done more harm than good and has resulted
to
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 a more negative
development
 rather than positive.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • lavish
  • extravagant
  • nuptials
  • matrimony
  • social status
  • opulence
  • milestone
  • financial leverage
  • debt
  • peer pressure
  • consumerism
  • showcase event
  • ceremonial splendor
  • bridal extravaganza
  • market forces
  • commercialization
  • budgeting
  • social comparison
  • destinal wedding
  • event planning
  • wedding vendors
  • loan
  • prestige
  • economic impact
  • mandatory spending
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