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June is the most popular month for weddings, right? Maybe. Most Internet stat collectors give June the edge, but the Hallmark card people -- and who better to trust on this? -- say August has crept ahead in recent years. No month has a lock, with the leader (be it June or August) having slightly more than 10 percent of all weddings. Hallmark's order of preference: August, June, July, September, October, May, April, November, December, March, February, January.
The unfelicitous term "starter marriage", like a starter home, is gaining currency. It's a union "that lasts only a short time, does not produce children and ends in a clean divorce," according to Kate Harrison, author of The Starter Marriage. It would appear to be one more symptom of our disposable age and is not as wreckage-free as some might assume, she says in the Scotsman newspaper. One of her tell-tale signs that you're entering a starter marriage: "Your pre-wedding jitters include the fact that you can't imagine where you and your intended will be in 20 years' time -- not just whether the limo will turn up on time."
Top wedding city in the world? It's Las Vegas, with about 400 weddings a day. At least one-third of them with Elvis involved.