How many weddings and funerals have you been to in your life? I have only been to three each. Two of the weddings were for relatives and two funerals were for relatives (my grandparents).
I am asking because I am wondering if most people go to approx the same number of weddings as funerals. Also, I suspect most people have gone to more of them than me.
I’ve been to one funeral and one wake, but at least a dozen weddings.
I think the movie title has the ratio about right: Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Maybe I’ll go to more funerals as I get older and my acquaintances die off.
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Two funerals, six weddings (if you count wedding receptions). But I’m only 23, so these stats are bound to be a little skewed.
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One funeral, no weddings. And a few of my friends are married…I just never get invited. sigh
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Not everybody gets married, but everybody dies. Even for a married couple (assuming no divorce and re-marriage) there will be two funerals to one wedding.
Second and subseqent marriages notwithstanding, there should be more funerals than weddings. Whether more people go to them or not is another question.
My guess is more weddings when you’re younger and more funerals when you’re older.
Too many to count - but more funerals than weddings. Both parents came from large families. Attendance at wakes & funerals was mandatory; wedding attendance was not.
So far as I can recall, I’ve been to 6 funerals and at least 5 weddings, not counting my own (wedding, that is). I low-balled my guess on the number of weddings, though, because I think I attended a couple different cousins’ weddings as a very small child, but I have just the vaguest of memories of the events so didn’t include them.
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No, 7 funerals. Just as I hit the submit button, I remembered another.
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3 weddings,never been to a funeral.Though my parents are in their 80’s,I hope its a long time before I go to theirs.
In my sterling and totally unremarkable education in the Catholic system, one thing does stand out. If a class mate or a class mates sibling or parent died, your class had to attend the funeral. This was fine because we got out of class, but when my Dad died over the holidays, no one from my class was in attendance and that hurt. Childishly, I never forgave the school for that one.
Anyways, I’ve probably been to well over thirty funerals and at least twenty five weddings.
The saddest funeral was a coworker whose mother and sister were killed walking on the shoulder of a road by a hit and run driver.(the son of a bitch only got a six month suspended liscense and a fine too.) The coworker cried and wailed during the entire service. It’s been five years and I can still hear her pain. ( Although, it was fascinating because that family was Orthodox SomethingOrAnother and the priests wore the big pontiff type hats and sang the entire service.Beat the pants off a Catholic Service in a heart beat.)
I’ve never been to a funeral, al la Hollywoodish, where someone in the family gives the eulogy.
Lessee… my mom, my cousin, aunt and uncle #1, aunt and uncle #2, aunt and uncle #3, my mom’s cousin, my friend Robin, another friend, and myself…nine weddings.
My grandfather, my great-uncle Vince, my great-aunt Phyllis, my great-aunt Dorothy, my great-grandfather, my mother-in-law, and Tiffany (a friend who died when I was in high school)…seven funerals.
Really wish I could increase the number of weddings and let the funeral number stay right where it is. Anyone find that fountain of youth yet?
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Most of the people I know who have died have not had funerals, so while I know many people who have died, I’ve only been to about 3 funerals.
Been to lots of weddings though… actually I’ve caught the bouquet at all of the weddings I’ve been to.
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I should clarify: All the weddings I went to before I got married (I’m not elegible to catch since I’m married)
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I have been to 6 weddings counting my own, but no funerals as I don’t believe in the custom.
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Let’s see; 2 weddings for friends, 1 wedding for sort-of-friends, and 3 weddings for family: 6.
4 funerals for family, 1 funeral for a friend’s mother: 5.
Running about even, here.
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It must be about the same number for me. Funerals tended to be more interesting events. With the same cast of characters, usually, except the “funeree”. It was fun to watch how long they could be on their best behavior. Nobody would insult the deceased but the usual squabbles came up.
Weddings tend to be rather forced events, but my wedding was ok for me as an experience. I don’t usually like any formal events, so it was only slightly formal.It could have been a longer party. Not my fault.
hmm i’ve only been to two weddings in my short 20 year existence, and at least 6 funerals. Two were for both of my grandfathers, and the others were for friends of my grandparents on my dad’s side. Most of those funerals were Filipino funerals which are quite interesting. The sad part is the burial and service, and then everyone goes over to the Filipino-American club across the street (the cemetery is within walking distance and quite old). Anyway, at the Fil-Am club, everyone east, laughs, has a good time. All the crying is done during the service. Also, we have Novenas a couple of nights before the funeral (lots of kneeling, sitting, standing, etc). I’ve only been to a couple of those.
whoops! Transposed the s and t. I meant to say “everyone eats”.
Funerals: at least 5
Weddings: at least 8
Probably more weddings, because when I was a kid, many of my parents’ relatives invited kids to weddings, but I’m only counting those I can remember.
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Well – I have to confess I’ve been to quite a few weddings and funerals. Many of you know I’m a Mormon but I don’t think I’ve ever let on that I served for several years as a Mormon Bishop. That means I not only got to attend funerals and weddings – I got to conduct them.
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