Working for Relate, I find often people are reluctant to pay towards either counselling when their relationship has hit the rocks, or up front for courses about 'how to have a good relationship'... How are people reluctant to pay less than £500 for these, and yet several thousand on one day?
With celebrity marriages covered extensively in the media, have we become a society focussed on the glitz and glamour, at the expense (literally) of the substance of marriage?
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When you look at these figures, it does raise the question of why people do get married these days. I don't the answer is just to put on a show, though - I wonder if people subconsciously feel that they are tapping into the divine when they do it. Marriage is used in scriptures again and again to represent God's relationship with us, his people, from the covenant at Sinai through to pentecost (originally the Jewish festival that commemorated Sinai). I wonder if people get a sense that they are doing something that feels 'deep' and 'right' when they choose to get married because they are (perhaps unknowingly) doing something with a spiritual dimension. I've just realised that this theory is very compatible with gay marriage; if marriage is a a commitment between two people that reminds them of the deeper connection to God, it isn't much to do with opposite genders necessarily. But i guess that that is another question altogether!
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