Revealed: September 1 is the most popular day to get married - so how common is YOUR anniversary? Use our interactive graphic to find out...
READ MORE: Divorces fall to their lowest rate in more than five decades By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline Published: 08:48, 22 June 2024 | Updated: 08:48, 22 June 2024 e-mail View comments September 1 is the most common day to get married, analysis shows. Number-crunching by MailOnline found an average of 1,501 couples tie the knot on that date each year. Famous faces to have wed on this day include Stevie Wonder, Sarah Michelle Gellar , Seth Meyers and Whoopi Goldberg .
By contrast, Christmas Day is the least popular (5). All 366 days of the year – including February 29 – are plotted on a heatmap, allowing you to see how your anniversary compares according to data collected by the Office for National Statistics. Your browser does not support iframes.
Figures represent the total number of weddings registered every day in England and Wales between 1999 and 2020, as well as the yearly average. They include same-sex marriages from March 2014, when the Same Sex Couples Act came into effect. The most popular days (with over 1,000 weddings on average) appear red, while the least popular days (less than 100) are coloured dark blue.
Rounding out the top five after September 1, the most popular days to get hitched were August 25 (1,486), August 18 (1,423), July 28 (1,422) and August 4 (1,421). Read More I'm a psychologist and these are 13 r.
