Weddings often come with numbers. How many guests are you going to have? How much food is your caterer going to serve? What is the wedding dress going to cost? How many songs are going to be played during the reception? It’s pretty obvious that most engaged couples have numbers on their mind. Why not take a break from the math crunching, and read some interesting wedding facts by the numbers? Some of them may shock you.
- Grace Kelly (actress and Monaco’s princess) wore a wedding gown with a vintage bodice that was made with 125 year old lace.
- The average number of American couples getting hitched every day? 7,000.
- Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez were engaged for 67 years, which is the longest celebrity engagement period.
- Only 70% of brides wear the traditional diamond ring on the fourth finger of their left hand.
- When it comes to celebrity marriages, the more the merrier: Zsa Zsa Gabor was married 9 times, Billy Bob Thornton was married 5 times, and Elizabeth Taylor was married 8 times (only one less that Zsa Zsa).
- In 1993, one of the largest weddings took place in Jerusalem. About 30,000 people attended the wedding.
- Too old to get married? Don’t tell that to Minnie Munro, who got married when she was 102, while her groom was only 82.
- How much would you spend for a wedding singer? Multimillionare Peter Shalson paid roughly 2 million pounds to have the legendary Elton John perform a song at their wedding.
- In 1981, the son of a Dubai Sheik named Rashid Bin Saeed Maktoum spent about $44 million on his wedding.
- The average engagement is 13 months, which is a little over a year.
- The average number of wedding guests is 189.
- The average total cost of a wedding is anywhere from $20,000 to $25,000
- Nearly half of the weddings in the United States are second weddings.
- 31% of post wedding honeymoons are on the Caribbean islands.
- No surprise here: Las Vegas is the number 1 location of destination weddings with 100,000 weddings a year! How’s that for kitsch?
