So, claiming that 2012 will be one of the biggest wedding years for me since 2005 seems like a rather big claim, knowing my history of weddings...
But how well do we really know my history of weddings, folks? And is it normal? I could have been bitching for years and perhaps my attendance at weddings over my 30 years of life is entirely normal.
Because I seem to always be going to or talking about weddings in my life, people have started to ask me: "Well, how many have you been to? Invited to?" I never had answers. Until now.
The following are my "wedding stats" to the best of my knowledge. If you don't care in any way about this random aspect of my life, feel free to stop reading.
If you care to find out if I am "normal" or "freakish" in any way...read on!
I have divided most by year, the number of weddings I was invited to, the number I actually attended, and included my roles in any of those weddings in parenthesis. You're welcome.
Julia's Weddings Stats:
Weddings attended Prior to 2003 (before graduation of college): 7
(cousins, aunt, family friend, respectively)
RSVP "no" (that I'm aware of...parents took care of most of these things at this time of my life): 1
2003: 4 wedding invitations, 2 attended (1 as Maid of Honor)
2004: 1 invitation, 1 attended (as bridesmaid)
2005: 7 invitations, 4 attended, (1 as bridesmaid, 1 as Eucharistic Minister)
2006: 3 invitations, 3 attended (1 as Maid of Honor, 1 as musician, 1 I gave the "blessing" at the reception, and 1 as a "flower maiden"...yup. I had to wear a dress, so I count this as a "bridesmaid" duty)
2007: 3 invitations, 3 attended (2 as musician, 1 gave "blessing" at reception)
2008: 6 invitations, 3 attended (1 as "lector")
2009: 7 invitations, 4 attended (1 as Maid of Honor, another as a bridesmaid)
2010: 2 invitations, 2 attended
2011: 3 invitations, 2 attended (1 as musician)
So, if you are keeping track...that's at least 44 weddings in my 30 years of life that I have been invited to (that I remembered and was able to write down), 31 I've attended (1 for each year of my life so far, I suppose), and 13 I've said "no" to. Is that normal?? I really want to know!
Additional stats:
7 bridesmaid dresses
3 times as maid of honor
4 times as musician
2 times giving a blessing
1 as a lector
1 as a Eucharistic Minister
So that's about 14 out of 30 attended that I was actually involved with in some way ( I double-dutied at one)...again...normal?!
2012 brings about approximately 8 more potential weddings for me, bringing my tally of invitations up to 52 by age 31....is that normal?!?
I need to know people! Comments welcome...
I'm sorry if this post was entirely sad and pathetic. Happy New Year! Themes for the New Year coming next...
5 comments:
haha so I don't have quite as many years to compare, but I do have this to contribute in my first year out of college:
4 wedding invitations, 4 bridesmaid dresses ;)
Oh, damn, girl...you are on your way with a record like that! 4 for 4? 27 dresses, here you come!
I just like to think that it means we are well-loved ;)Happy New Year!
Wow! That is a lot of weddings! I have only been to about 15 weddings in 34 years of adult life. You must have a lot of friends & family.
Just remembered two weddings I said "no" to, so that's like 45 invites, 15 no's?!
Catching up on my blogs these days... I think you're above average, Jing. :) I have a lot of friends, but I guess they are all single (ha!), and my family lives so far away (and not especially close to my cousins anyway), I rarely go to their weddings. That is an impressive number of statistics. The only people I know who probably out-do you are friends who both have huge families and large numbers of fraternity brothers.
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