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Wedding Fun Facts 

Some fun little facts about weddings!

• The first kiss exchanged between the new bride and groom has been significant throughout time. Some cultures believed the couple exchanged spirits and part of their souls with their breath through that first kiss!
• Have you ever wondered why it is traditional for the wedding ring to be worn on the third finger of the left hand? This ring placement has become traditional because it was believed that a vein in this finger ran directly to the heart!
• The origin of the honeymoon is not what you might expect! The first weddings consisted of the groom capturing his bride and hiding her away for one moon phase somewhere that friends and family could not find them. They would drink a wine made from honey to make them more amorous, thus the origin of the word "honeymoon"!
• Wedding bouquets weren't always so lovely and fragrant as they are now. The ancient Greeks and Romans wedding bouquet consisted of garlic, grains, and herbs. The garlic was meant to ward off evil spirits and the grains and herbs meant to help guarantee a fruitful union.
• Did you know that typically, Las Vegas, Nevada performs 114,000 weddings per year?
• According to the diamond industry, a man should spend 2 months salary on his future bride's engagement ring.
• The average cost of an American wedding with 125 guests is an estimated whopping $19,000, according to www.theknot.com.
• The world record for most expensive wedding that took place was in 1981 between the son of a sheik and the Princess of Dubai and cost a mere $44.5 million.
• Something Old signifies the durability of marriage. Something New signifies the new life of the couple. Something Borrowed...a happily married woman lends the bride some of her marital bliss, and Something Blue denotes fidelity!
• The longest engagement on record was Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez. After "dating" for 67 years, they finally got married. They were both 82.
• From theweddingreport.com:
  Recent results from our wedding survey show that 77% of couples will use the Internet to help plan their wedding. As related to their engagement, wedding, honeymoon, and time after, 43% will use the Internet to research products and services, while 13% will purchase products and services. These results are based on a sample of 499 surveys.
  We estimated 2,271,910 weddings with an average wedding cost of $26,800 for 2006. 976,921 (43%) of those weddings will research products and services online while 295,348 (13%) weddings will buy products and services online. We believe this makes the online wedding market worth over $7.9 billion.
• Almost 22 percent of women in their early- to mid-30s are still single, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The average age for brides in 2004 was 25.8, up from 20.3 in 1954.
• The word diamond came from the ancient Greek word 'adamas', meaning unconquerable.