Compared to a lifetime (or at least a few years) spent with your spouse, the one day you spend actually getting married is but a blip on a very long timeline. But the results of a new study seems to indicate that there is some sort of link between the size of your wedding’s guest list and the quality of the marriage that ensues. Of course, that data also appears to show that most marriages are not truly happy.
The L.A. Times writes about the University of Denver’s Relationship Development Study, which has been looking at hundreds of recently married people over the last five years.
Among the various findings of the study are some curious numbers about the number of people attending a couple’s wedding and the quality of their marriage.
The couples in the study who said “I do” before a crowd of at least 150 people had high-quality marriages, according to the researchers. On the other end of the scale, only 31% of couples with relatively cozy weddings of 50 or fewer guests had high-quality marriages. For the group in the middle of those two extremes, the stats weren’t much better, with just 37% having high-quality marriages.
Likewise, only 28% of couples who eschewed formal weddings entirely fit into the the high-quality category, compared to 41% of those who went the formal wedding route.
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Me,my wife,one witness and the judge. Still together after over twenty years.
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Who funded it - a consortium of hotels, meeting halls, event planners and tux rentals?
In my experience, the couples who focus on the marriage, as opposed to the wedding, have had the more successful relationships. Not sure I buy this.
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