Marriage on the Decline
The number of couples in Briton getting married has collapsed to a record low,it has emerged
The proportion of people getting married is now the lowest since records began in 1862 and the number of weddings held in 2006 was the smallest since 1895.
Among men the rate was 22.8 in every 1,000, among women 20.5. When marriage-rates were first calculated in 1862 the level was 58.7 for men and 50 for women.
Even during the world war years marriage rates for women never dropped below 40 in 1,000. They fell below 30 for the first time in 1995.
The general decline of marriage has been under way since 1972 when there were 426,000 weddings and marriage rates were more than 78 in 1,000 for men and 60 for women.
Church weddings are also at a low as two-thirds of all weddings in 2006 were civil ceremonies.
Religious marriages numbered fewer than 80,000.
Wow i’m pretty shocked by this !
Maybe all you ladies need to stop waiting for your man and do the asking yourself 
Wedding Ring Found After 90 Years Under Water
A First World War sailor’s wedding ring has been discovered in the sea almost 90 years after he died
Stanley Cubiss was one of 188 crewmen who died on January 12 1918 after two warships ran aground on the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay.
Mr Cubiss’s wedding ring was found on the seabed by divers last summer.
They were able to track down Stanleys nephew, Malcolm Cubiss, 79, and presented him with the ring,
He has since donated the wedding ring to Scapa Flow Visitor Centre on the island of Hoy.
Nice to see this has ben found after so many years at the bottom of the sea .
Couples Hope To Bring Home The Bacon
A bizarre ritual dating back to the 12th century in which the couple who can prove to a mock court that their marriage is the happiest wins half a pig takes place on Saturday.
The Dunmow Flitch Trials in Essex, feature a judge and jury of six maidens and six bachelors who hear each couple tell the story of their marriage from how they met to the proposal and how their families reacted.
The trials are held every four years and this time feature five couples who have been married for at least a year and a day in line with the rules.
Strange but true!!!!
Trash The Dress
The idea is said to have started in America by photographer Mark Eric after he shot his first Trash The Dress session in New York but some sources claim that it started in 2001 when Las Vegas wedding photographer John Michael Cooper.
However, the idea of destroying a wedding dress has been used in Hollywood since at least October 1998 when Meg Cummings of the show Sunset Beach ran into the ocean in her wedding dress after her wedding was badly interrupted.
The idea of trashing your wedding dress after hundreds of hours of stress from planning their wedding has mass appeal to some non-traditional brides.
So will you be wrapping up you dress in Acid free tissue paper and placing in a box and putting it in the loft or do you fancy run though the sea or throwing paint all over yourself ?
Sounds like fun to me!
Wedding Films
Friday saw the release of two ‘wedding films’, there was Nicole Kidman and Jack Black staring in Margot at the Wedding and Uma Thurman and Colin Firth in The Accidental Husband.
Have you seen either of them? If so, any good?
Wedding Traditions
Something old,Something new,
Something borrowed,
Something blue and a silver sixpence in your shoe.
We all Know this tradition but when it came down to it i had a really hard time choosing! How about you?
Horseshoes
Horseshoes must be kept upright so they keep there luck! At one time the shoes were thrown at the newly weds to bring them luck ! (Ouch!)
Throwing the bouquet
It is tradition for the newly married bride to throw her bouquet backwards over her shoulder to her unmarried female guest as she is about to leave for her honeymoon. it is say the one who catches it will be the next to marry.
Strange But True Wedding Facts
A french Woman was arrested at her wedding reception back in 1995 for stabbing her new husband with the used cake knife (I’d love to see their wedding photo’s!)
A bride to be suffered a breakdown after finding her husband to be in her wedding dress kissing his best man! (I wouldn’t want to be the person who had to tell everyone that wedding was cancelled!)
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the USA (OK!)
A bride to be is suing her former fiance after he ran off with another woman before the wedding ceremony had even finished. The couple were just about to finish their vows when a woman appeared at the back of the church and shouted for the wedding to stop.The groom who had been about to say “I do” hesitated walked over to the woman, hugged her and then the pair fled in a taxi. (very nice man! )
Most Expensive Wedding
MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING.
From what i could find out the most expensive wediing at the moment was between Vanisha Mittal and and her fiancée Amit Bhatia on June 22 2004 and the pice of this little get together (now i really do hope you’re sitting down) was a cool $6o million!! Wow i bet they didn’t serve their cake in napkins!!.
MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING DRESS!
Now a girl needs to look her very best on her wedding day but this little number will set you back a mere $12million it has 150 carat worth of diamonds sewn into it (oh well at least you could make a few rings out of it afterwards)
MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING CAKE
The most expensive ediable wedding cake cost $1.65 million it has diamond encrusted icing!!!!! ( i know your parents told you never to pick at your food but i really don’t think they’ll mind just this once)
MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING BOUQUET
The Floral wonder is made up of 90 gem stones, 9 diamonds and 1 star shaped ruby and cost $125′000 ( I can’t see your local florist knocking one of them up)