You reach a point in your twenties where everyone you know is at different life stages. While you're having a pizza, your friend is having a baby. While you're tying your shoe lace, your cousin is tying the knot. And although you might feel happy in your single and unsettled life suddenly you start to wonder - what age am I meant to be doing these things?
Well, the main thing is - do not panic. A major survey of 4,000 married couples from wedding planning site Bridebook.co.uk has revealed the average age at which men and women are tying the knot in the UK - and it's significantly older than the previous generation.
The results of Bridebook.co.uk's study found that the average age of a single woman getting married is now 30.8 years old, up just over eight years from 1971, when the average was 22.6 years. Meanwhile, For men, the average age is now 32.7 years old, compared to 24.6 back in 1971.
Bridebook.co.uk also found that the average couple is together for just under five years (4.9, to be precise) before getting hitched, waiting 17 months before moving in then living together for around three-and-a-half years before marriage. Each half of the couple had two serious relationships before meeting the 'one.'
95 percent of those surveyed would recommend getting married, with 91 percent doing so as a demonstration of commitment to their partner. 85 percent, meanwhile, said that marriage has made their relationship stronger.
'It is fantastic to see how marriage is evolving with today's modern couples for the positive. Marriages are becoming stronger than ever, relationships happier and more committed than ever, and couples more independent and consensual in their decisions than ever,' said Hamish Shephard, founder of Bridebook.co.uk.
'Whilst living together before getting married, having serious relationships out of wedlock or getting married when you are older were previously frowned upon, for the modern couple these can clearly be very positive steps to finding "the one" and having a fantastic long-lasting marriage.'
'Weddings are now focused on the celebration of a couples' life-long commitment to one another, rather than the start of a new life together, and hence have become bigger and bigger occasions.'
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