The biggest year-on-year decrease was recorded in Eastern Visayas at 18.8 percent, followed by the Bicol and Caraga regions, which posted declines of 9.2 and 7.9 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, marriages in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao jumped by 79.7 percent.
The NSO report also showed that more couples were married in civil rites at 202,614 or 42.5 percent.
Marriages in Catholic churches came in second with 171,046 or 35.9 percent; other religious rites, including Muslim, at 20.8 percent; and 3,167 under tribal rites.
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