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Happy people are likelier to marry, and optimistic expectations of marriage are found to predict the best outcomes. Conservative people also tend to keep the peace.

When marriage was invented, you were dead by thirty. It is a choice, and a difficult one to stick by.

A wedding is not an end, except in novels and comedies; in reality, it is a beginning. Many divorcees can trace the first seed of doubt to the moment after the ceremony, as they walked out arm in arm, and found themselves thinking, It this it? Because they did not feel happy as they expected

By the time we reach the aisle, we are so frayed by the stress that we end up splitting sooner rather than later

Each couple to hold hands and swear their wedding vows takes a giant leap of faith into the unknown future. They are seizing their one chance in life to change the story that they tell the world, and each other, about who they are. To make this almighty wish come true requires more than faith: it takes art. But epidemic levels of divorce suggest it is an art that many fail to master.

The first recorded exchange of wedding rings took place in ancient Egypt in 2790 B.C., but the invention of marriage must predate this occasion by many moons.