ABSTRACT
Through the application of qualitative approach this paper report some useful insights pertaining to the issue relates to the factors influencing the late marriage among male mature young adults in Malaysia and to what extent wedding food cost cause the causation. Achieving higher than self-sustaining incomes, careers and advanced educational qualifications are the identified factors. However, the most remarkable finding is that food costs which include the wedding feast for the guests and other related amenities directly delaying them in tying the marriage knot. In other words, inability to pay for the over-priced food items deemed necessary in wedding ceremonies indeed are the new cause in this modern era. This phenomenon conveys numerous consequences and implications not only to the young adults themselves but society and the nation as a whole.
