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Choosing a Wedding Date

What made you choose your wedding date? Did that date have special meaning for you or was it a case of what was available? Does the date matter? For us, it was a date already meaningful. It was a date I already had inscribed on one ring -the friendship ring Mick gave me. Exactly two years to the date and as close as we could get it to the hour and minute that Mick put my engraved friendship ring on my right hand, he was putting my wedding ring on the left ring finger of my left hand. It was … Continue reading →

No Wedding in Sight?

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The season of weddings is well upon us. As a previous article on wedding stats revealed, summer months rank very high in wedding ceremonies. When friends, relatives, and others begin planning and talking of weddings, those who are not married may begin to also dream of their own plans. In life we seem to live in stages or steps. As we grow older there are natural life occurrences that we feel should be taking place. For example some are moving out of our parents’ home, choosing a career, getting a job, and yes marriage and children. Relationships also move in … Continue reading →

Wedding Cancellations and Break-ups

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Not all marriages are meant to be. Those that discover this before marriage are the lucky ones. While it may seem devastating and even embarrassing at the time, there are reasons that couples should be thankful for engagement break-ups and wedding cancellations. In one of the forum threads a lady comments that her son recently broke off his engagement. She questions how she should handle the situation. Engagement break-ups can be tricky. There are many factors to consider when determining what the next step should be. If a wedding is not underway, then the break-up can be fairly simple. The … Continue reading →

More Wedding Stats

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My interest lately has been turned into looking closely at the truth about weddings and engagements. My first article in this series addressed some statistics about couple who are engaged. My second article began looking into the actual wedding planning and ceremony. However that article only began to touch what I have discovered about weddings and marriage. Therefore more discussion will be needed. Earlier I mentioned that the most common month for getting married is June. I also mentioned that the largest percentage of weddings are held in some form of church. I also discovered that over half of weddings … Continue reading →

Wedding Stats

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In my last article I mentioned how I had done some research on weddings and engagements. The article gave some engagement stat highlights. The spotlight will now turn more on weddings themselves. As many assume, June is the most popular choice of months for weddings. This was common knowledge with most people. However did you know, the follow up months are August, September, October, and then May? I found it odd that July was skipped in the mist. I wonder if it has anything to do with the hot weather? Each year American weddings total over 2.4 million ceremonies. With … Continue reading →

Engagement Stats

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I have addressed weddings in many of my previous articles. I have discussed anything from music to flowers to location. This article will take a little different twist. Here I have dug up a little research and discovered some very surprising, and not so surprising, wedding statistics. I think that you will enjoy them as much as I have. I will begin with the “before” stage. The engagement. When you first begin planning your marriage and your wedding. It has been found that American couples typically stay engaged for about sixteen months before getting married. During this period you begin … Continue reading →

More Recent Stats on Long Marriages, Part 2 – The Stats

In Part 1, I defined how I’d interpret the results from the Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 2001 report Jade pointed out to me that was issued in February 2005. It presented more current findings than the other report I’d found, and also some different (and interesting) stats. That’s what’s presented below. (For your ease of reference, I’m including the Groups breakdown from Part I again so you’ll know which dates I’m referring to.) The Groups The report categorized those married between certain dates, but I’m assigning them group numbers. Group 1 – 1955 to 1959 Group … Continue reading →

More Recent Stats on Long Marriages, Part 1 – Definitions

Last week I provided some stats on long marriages from a U.S. Census Bureau document issued in February 2002 called Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 1996 by Rose M. Kreider and Jason M. Fields. How I missed the more current one, I don’t know, but Jade “The Muse” walker pulled through again by sharing a link with me to a more recent document. Again, it was issued by the U.S. Census Bureau and was authored by Rose M. Kreider, but it is entitled Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 2001 and was issued in February … Continue reading →

Stats on Long Marriages

Around the same time she sent me a link that resulted in the article Long Marriages: This Family Knows How to Do It, Jade “The Muse” Walker (as I think I’ll now start calling her) also tipped me off to another story about long marriages. This one wasn’t so much an article though. It was posted on a blog called “Kristen’s Brooklyn, NY Blog” and was an invitation. As Jade put it, “Now that’s what I call an Exclusive party.” It certainly was. A man named Marty Markowitz, who’s apparently the Brooklyn Borough President, and his wife hosted an event … Continue reading →

Average Length of Marriages

Mary Ann posed an interesting question on a recent article, about the average length of marriages these days. It’s hard to track down exact statistics as there are so many variables, but here are a few things I found will give an idea of the length of the average marriage. In the United Kingdom in 2003, out of 153490 divorces, 40,599 divorces occurred during the first 5-9 years time frame. The next biggest number was between 10-14 years 29,831 and 20,923 in the 15-19 years period. What is interesting is the number that ends up in divorce after only 0-2 … Continue reading →