I was just reading the results of The Knot’s annual wedding survey , and besides the average wedding costing a shade over $29K (that seems pretty high … it must be all those $2M weddings on TLC’s Wedded to Perfection skewing it high), I learned that 71% of the couples polled lived together before getting married.
Yes, that’s not a typo … 71%. Wow, I can’t imagine that number was higher than 2% for my parents’ generation, which shows how much things have changed since then. Our generation is also getting married later in life, with the average age of women getting married at 25.6 and met at 27.7.
What does this all mean? I have no clue, other than I can now tell my mom that I’m normal for having lived with my girlfriend/fiancee (albeit 6 years) before we got married (although mom is now completely used to it and probably doesn’t care a lick). So much for being a rebel…
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