Are there less Weddings?

Chatting to someone today who said that there are less Weddings every year, well you’ll be surprised to learn (I was) that actually, Wedding numbers are increasing in Scotland, slowly but still increasing.

So, using the great Google Statistic site I searched for Weddings in Scotland

The graph below indicates volumes of search in Scotland on the word Wedding, not very scientific but interesting. You can see that there is a spike in the 3rd Quarter of most years on the search but a huge drop at the end of each year. Guess that makes sense but I always thought that people would be planning Weddings in January, maybe they think about getting married towards the end of the year then “pop the question” over Christmas.