Wedding facts – you won’t believe it!

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1. 52% of couples don’t have wedding-night sex
2. 52 songs – the ideal playlist for a three-hour party
3. 2.5 inches – the optimum heel height for blister-free, dance-all-night happy feet
4. 65% of grooms hire a suit
5. 45 seconds – how long it takes to glide down the aisle, on average
6. Out of all the different destination weddings you have to chose from, Las Vegas is the most popular with more than 100,000 weddings there every year and Hawaii is second, home to 25,000 each year.
7. The tradition that brides wear a white dress in the Western world was started by Queen Victoria in 1840. Until she set the trend, brides wore their finest gown to wed their groom. Japan happened to be way ahead of Queen Victoria as white was always the preferred colour for brides.
8. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, they used to break a loaf of bread over a bride’s head for good luck. In the 17th century, a French baker decided to frost a stack of buns -creating the world’s first tiered wedding cake!\
9. The largest wedding attendance was a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem in 1993 where 30, 000 people attended.
10. February 10th is World Marriage Day.
11. About 70% of all brides wear their ring on the fourth finger of their left hand.
12. Queen Victoria started the Western world’s white wedding dress trend in 1840 – before then, brides simply wore their best dress.
13. In Japan, white was always the colour of choice for wedding dresses – long before Queen Victoria popularized it in the Western world.
14. A Malaysian man holds the record for being the best man at over 1000 weddings.
15. Princess Victoria established the tradition of playing Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus” during her wedding processional in 1858.
16. Stag parties were first held by ancient Spartan soldiers, who kissed their bachelor days goodbye with a raucous party.
17. The longest wedding dress was found in Germany with a length of 515 feet.
18. In Chine 26, 000 couples get married every day.
19. Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
20. The most expensive wedding cost over £22 million and was held in a purpose built stadium in Dubai for a Sheikh’s son.
21. Peas are thrown at Czech newlyweds instead of rice.
22. Temulji Nairman and Lady Nairman hold the record for the longest ever recorded marriage of 86 years. They were married at 5 years old.
23. In many cultures around the world the hands of a bride and groom are literally tied together to demonstrate the couple’s commitment to each other and their new bond as a married couple. This is the origin of the phrase “Tying the know”
24. In 1976 Los Angeles secretary Jannene Swift officially married a 50lb rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
25. 67% of women continue to wear the same fragrance they wore on their wedding day
26. The tradition of the bride wearing something old (for continuity), new (optimism for the future), borrowed (borrowed happiness), and blue (fidelity, good fortune, and love) on her wedding day stems from an Old English rhyme.
27. An engagement between a Mexican couple lasted for 67 years before they finally tied the knot in 1969.
28. Elton John’s once charged £2 million to secure him singing at a wedding.
29. Harry Bidwell of Brighton was 101when he was divorced from his 65-year-old wife in 1980.
30. 39 per cent of women were involved in picking out their own engagement ring.
31. Queen Victoria’s wedding cake was three yards wide and weighed 300 pounds.
32. Queen Elizabeth II had 12 wedding cakes. The one she cut at her wedding was nine feet tall and weighed 500 pounds.

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