{"id":2031,"date":"2010-04-21T17:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2010-04-21T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:12:39","slug":"2010-engagement-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/2010-engagement-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Engagement Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2010\/04\/engagement-survey20101.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2033\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2010\/04\/engagement-survey20101-600x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ran this survey from January 2010 till now and the results are in! \u00a0We had 260 respondants to our survey, so thank you so much to you all for taking part!<\/p>\n<p>What did we come up with?!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40% of couples now getting married within 12 months of getting engaged.<\/li>\n<li>July is still the most popular month to get married, but winter weddings are on the rise with nearly 30% of people now tying the knot in the cold weather months.<\/li>\n<li>10% of couples are\u00a0choosing\u00a0registered civil ceremony venues instead of the traditional church wedding.<\/li>\n<li>More people set the date first and then shop around for their perfect wedding venue.<\/li>\n<li>15% of people are opting for country house, castle and &#8220;alternative&#8221; wedding venues as\u00a0opposed\u00a0to a hotel. wedding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As is customary here at WeddingDates.ie, we don&#8217;t ask you to do something without offering something in return, so we have a fantastic romantic getaway courtesy of our generous and lovely sponsor,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/venues\/mount-juliet-thomastown-kilkenny-5star-57435\/\"> Mount Juliet Estate in Kilkenny<\/a> to giveaway!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Winner:<\/strong> The lucky winner of our getaway prize is Michelle Hegarty, who\u2019s entry matched a random number draw. Congrats!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The results of the survey (a PDF with the press release and data) are <a title=\"2010 Engagement Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/media.weddingdates.ie\/uploads\/survey_results.pdf\">available for download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We ran this survey from January 2010 till now and the results are in! \u00a0We had 260 respondants to our survey, so thank you so much to you all for taking part! What did we come up with?! 40% of couples now getting married within 12 months of getting engaged. July is still the most popular month to get married, but winter weddings are on the rise with nearly 30% of people now tying the knot in the cold weather [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[678],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}