Interesting statistics...

...and food for thought for the wedding flower business I'm (slowly) in the process of launching...

(Source: Local daily newspaper La Presse)

Last year, there were 22, 559 weddings celebrated in Quebec (for a population of about 7 million). Ours was one of them. This is equal to about 3 for every 1,000 people. That rate has been steady for around 12 years; its historical peak was 8 for every 1,000 people in the early '70s.

The average bride is 30, and the average groom is 32. This is notably older than it used to be (the average bride was 25 in 1986).

In about a third of weddings, at least one of the partners has already been married before (which one can assume possibly means a smaller, city hall-type wedding -most people her are non-practicing Catholics, but a lot still marry religiously, and the Catholic church does not permit remarriage).

Same-sex weddings correspond to about 2% of all weddings performed each year (they've been legal for 8 years). This equals to about 450 each year, including, two years ago, my own sister. 58% of gay weddings involve men.

17% of same-sex couples who married here last year were not Quebec residents: the progressive attitude and no-questions-asked law is in no doubt attractive to couples whose own states/countries do not recognize their unions.