This special release presents the statistical data on marriages occurring for the month of April 2024 in the Province of Cavite. This publication shows the disaggregated data of registered marriages by registration status down to city/municipal level. It also presents the total registered marriages by nationality of bride and groom. The civil registry documents transmitted by the Local Civil Registry Offices (LCROs) to Cavite Provincial Office for machine processing served as the source of data in preparation of this publication.

Marriages in Cavite

A total of 1,055 marriages were registered in the Province of Cavite for the month of April 2024. Figure 1 shows that Silang recorded the highest registered marriages at 190, followed by Tagaytay City and City of Imus with 133 and 108 weddings, respectively. The least registered marriages was recorded in the municipality of Magallanes with only four (4), followed by Ternate and Maragondon with 8 and 13 weddings, respectively.

Moreover, timely registered marriages accounted for 1,040 or 98.6 percent while late registered marriages accounted for only 15 or 1.4 percent. Silang also registered the highest number of timely registered marriages in the province. Of the 23 cities/municipalities in the province, 1 city and 13 municipalities had all of their recorded marriages registered on time.

Figure 2 shows that 1,007 or 95.5 percent of the 1,055 grooms in April 2024 were Filipino citizens. Foreign citizens recorded 48 or 4.5 percent of the grooms in Cavite. The highest number of foreign citizens came from United States of America with 11 grooms, followed from Australia with four (4) grooms, from Japan with three (3) grooms, from China with two (2) grooms, and from Germany with one (1) groom.

On the other hand, Figure 3 shows that in April 2024, 1,050 or 99.5 percent of the 1,055 brides were Filipino citizens, while foreign citizens totaled to only five (5) or 0.5 percent of the brides in Cavite. Of the 5 foreign citizens, one (1) came from United States of America, and one (1) came from Australia.

Summary

The Province of Cavite recorded a total of 1,055 marriages for the month of April 2024. Silang had the highest registered marriages of 190 and also with the most number of timely registered marriages. Magallanes had the least with four (4) marriages. Majority of the registered marriages were timely registered. The total late registered marriages were only 15. No late registered marriages were reported in 1 city and 13 municipalities in the province. Most of the grooms and brides are Filipino citizens. Grooms and brides with foreign citizenship reached 48 and 5, respectively.