Haskey J
Popul Trends. 1996 Autumn(85):45-52.
Saturday is the most popular day to marry: two thirds of all marriages in England and Wales take place then. However, Saturday marriages are not so popular as they were-in 1979, over three quarters of weddings were solemnised on Saturdays. Civil marriages are seven times as likely as religious marriages to take place during the week: the proportions were one in 2, and one in 14, respectively, in 1994. Friday was the relatively most frequent weekday. There was a small peak of weddings on St Valentine's Day in 1994-which fell on a Monday-particularly amongst couples both of whom were remarrying after divorce. The analyses in this article are based on new data on marriages by day of the week in England and Wales. These will be routinely published from 1994 onwards in the ONS annual reference volumes Marriage and divorce statistics (FM2 series).
在英格兰和威尔士，三分之二的婚姻都在这一天举行。然而，周六结婚的受欢迎程度已不如从前——1979年，超过四分之三的婚礼在周六举行。民事婚姻在工作日举行的可能性是宗教婚姻的七倍：1994年，这一比例分别为二分之一和十四分之一。周五是相对最常被选择的工作日。1994年情人节（当天是周一）出现了一个婚礼小高峰，尤其在双方都曾离婚后再婚的夫妇当中。本文的分析基于英格兰和威尔士按周中日期划分的婚姻新数据。这些数据将从1994年起在国家统计局年度参考卷《婚姻与离婚统计》（FM2系列）中定期发布。
