Let’s Wait a While—Majority of Couples Have Wedding One to Two Years After Getting Engaged

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Let’s Wait a While—Majority of Couples Have Wedding One to Two Years After Getting Engaged

HACKENSACK, NJ (November 29, 2006) — WedAlert.com, one of the most popular and fastest growing interactive online wedding planning directories on the Internet, today announced the results of its poll on how long couples are engaged before their wedding day. The choices and results were as follows*:

How long will you have been engaged before the big day?
• Less than six months - 15%
• Six months to a year - 28%
• One to two years - 43%
• More than two years - 14%

“These results were not all that surprising, considering that we keep hearing about couples putting off their wedding date for at least a year after getting engaged. Some reasons for this could be the limited availability of reception sites or wanting to lose weight before the big day,” said Joyce Artinian, a spokesperson for WedAlert.com. “A recent high profile example of this is the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Despite the fact that they were engaged after only a couple months of dating, they waited over a year to get married. In the interim, they had baby Suri and Katie subsequently went on a highly publicized weight loss program to get back her svelte figure.”

*Poll Disclaimer: WedAlert.com polls reflect the views of those who choose to respond and are not scientifically valid surveys. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole. WedAlert.com is not responsible for the content or opinions expressed in the polls.

About WedAlert.com
Established in 1995, with headquarters in Hackensack, NJ, WedAlert.com is one of the most popular and fastest growing interactive online wedding planning directories on the Internet whose mission is to match the local bride and groom with wedding professionals in their geographic area, taking them from the engagement all the way through to the “I do” straight through to the honeymoon. By offering free access to the largest wedding song library on the Internet and other multimedia tools, such as virtual tours and streaming video, WedAlert.com saves couples both valuable time and money involved in planning their wedding. For more information, please visit www.WedAlert.com.

Media Contact
Joyce Artinian
joyce@wedalert.com
201-996-1980 x 21