{"id":292529,"date":"2025-02-14T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292529"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:16:20","slug":"fewer-new-zealanders-getting-married-or-do-it-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292529","title":{"rendered":"Fewer New Zealanders Getting Married, Or Do It Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WELLINGTON, Feb 14 (NNN-RNZ) &#8211; New Zealand saw fewer marriages registered last year, compared to a decade ago, and more Kiwi couples waited longer to get married, a senior official said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 20,383 couples who registered marriages last year in New Zealand, down from 23,043 a decade prior, said Minister of Internal Affairs, Brooke van Velden, who revealed some insight into how many couples tied the knot last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;New Zealanders are now choosing to wait longer to get married,&#8221; van Velden said, adding that, one-quarter of all newlyweds in 2024 aged 29 or under, and 47 percent aged between 30 and 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In comparison, in 2014 one-third were under 30 on their wedding day, and 38 percent were aged between 30 and 39, statistics showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some Kiwis find love later in life, with 740 people getting married, who were aged 70 or older,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some couples even choose to make Valentine&#8217;s Day their special day, with 12,272 weddings occurring on Feb 14, since records began in 1848, the minister said.&#8211; NNN-RNZ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, Feb 14 (NNN-RNZ) &#8211; New Zealand saw fewer marriages registered last year, compared to a decade ago, and more Kiwi couples waited longer to get married, a senior official said today. There were 20,383 couples who registered marriages last year in New Zealand, down from 23,043 a decade prior, said Minister of Internal Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":292532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,287,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292533,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292529\/revisions\/292533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}