What's the most weddings you have gone to in a year?

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I am watching some rom com film called The Wedding Year and they have been invited to 15 weddings in one year. It's got me thinking what the most I have ever gone to is.

I think the busiest year we had is 5 but we have had a couple of years like that. Pre Covid it was kind of normal to have a 2-3 a year. I like it, so much fun but I also don't mind reusing dresses and outfits and don't go too crazy on the gifts. I think for some other people it could get really expensive!

What's the most you have gone to in a year and how did you cope?!

Blimey! My wider family are all overseas. My friend circle tended to have a lot who didn’t marry or had small family weddings etc. Some are now marrying later so I had a year recently with 4 over 50s first weddings only one was a second wedding. I think I’ve only been to around 15-20 weddings in my life. Can’t imagine some of these yearly tallies !

Seven or eight if you count mine. This was 10 years ago and havent been to any since. Last years wedding of a cousin was postponed and now they are doing a max 30 guests one. I hate weddings so happy not to go.

I did three in eight days one year. London, Durham and Ireland mid-week between the two. All proper big traditional weddings. I was exhausted by the third one.

40, is the average.
Unfortunately far more funerals.

1. All within 3 months of each other.

Best friend, sister, favourite cousin.

Bridesmaid at all 3.

I haven’t been to a wedding since...

I’ve been to 2 in my entire life people I know really just don’t get married anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think I’ve only been to four weddings in my life! None of my friends are married yet.

Actually maybe six in my life, four or five as an adult. Not many at all.

DH is from a massive family and his cousins are all starting to settle down, but thankfully they seem to have an unspoken agreement that everyone gets a “wedding year”, which is much easier on our pockets!

I look forward to the inevitably great thread when someone breaches the ‘wedding year’ etiquette and another family member posts about it!

@Devlesko I guess you're an officiant of some kind? I was only including weddings I've been invited to; as a teenagerI was a chorister in a church which could have 5 on a Saturday (though that was rare, and not all of them wanted a choir). But definitely over 100 in total by that count!

[quote bathorshower]@Devlesko I guess you're an officiant of some kind? I was only including weddings I've been invited to; as a teenagerI was a chorister in a church which could have 5 on a Saturday (though that was rare, and not all of them wanted a choir). But definitely over 100 in total by that count![/quote]
Romany gypsy, extremely large families and culture.
Far more funerals and sitting with dead, though. Takes up a lot of time.

@TerribleCustomerCervix

We’ve had one every year except 2020. DH is from a massive family and his cousins are all starting to settle down, but thankfully they seem to have an unspoken agreement that everyone gets a “wedding year”, which is much easier on our pockets!

I don’t understand how previous posters could have that massive a group of friends that they’d get invited to 13 in a year! The cost of that must be incredible.

@TerribleCustomerCervix I think it can happen easily enough! It's not necessarily loads of friends - a large family with similar age cousins, second weddings for the generation above, school friends/uni friends that tend to be the same age, and work friends if you work in a large organisation. Times that by two if you have a partner and it soon mounts up! :)

@Snog

I always refuse the evening only invites which cuts it down a fair bit.

Me too. Also only do hen do’s if they are localism and for the day/night only.

Think five was a bumper year but I just re-used outfits as see no reason not to wear something more than once.

We went to nine the year we got married, including two in one weekend three weeks before our own. It’s quietened down a lot now as most of our friends are married already, but we were due to go to four last year and I’m absolutely gutted that none of them happened!

4 in one year has been the most for me. Someone joked that I needed a funeral next and then a friend died unexpectedly so I did end up with one.

I don't think I've even been to as many as 15 weddings in total though. I tried to count and can only remember 10 including my own.

We went through a stage of 4-6 a year. Then slowed down to 1 a year and the last one was 4 years ago. Probably waiting till the divorces/second weddings start up now (actually there was one divorce already but the second wedding was an elopement!)
Unlike what seems to be the majority view on Mumsnet I absolutely love weddings (including evening dos) and hen weekends so more would be good!

@AltCarbon

We had a year of 13! It was very expensive and as lots of them were from the same group of friends I couldn’t even get away with recycling outfits.

I'll be the blokes had no qualms about wearing the same suits. They may have thought about changing their tie... maaaaybe

I would have worn the same outfit to many of them

9, and the following year was 7.

I love weddings though. Should have been at 2 last year and one was cancelled, one massively reduced so we weren't at either.

The idea that a woman can't wear the same outfit is ridiculous though. Of those 16 over two years I only wore 4 different dresses and that includes my own so really 3 over 15. Many overlapping guests. I seriously doubt anyone noticed I was wearing the same dress and even if they did nobody would give a fuck.

We went to 4 in 6 weeks in 2016. 1 was 100 miles from home. Was awful!! I love weddings but this was too much!

I couldn’t even get away with recycling outfits

Even aside from the concept that you can't wear the same outfit twice being ridiculous the phrase "recycling" pissed me right off. Wearing something twice isn't recycling anything. It isn't otherwise a one-use, throwaway dress that you've magnaminously used a second time, it's just wearing something more than once, you know, like normal.

I had about 5 years of 2-3 per year which was lovely.

They've nearly all dried up now, although I have one in a couple of months, very minimal and I've been asked to witness which is an extra big honour in current circumstances.

O i've only been to 3 weddings in my entire life.

Before anyone says how on earth not everyone is blessed with huge families and a wide circle of friends.

Hardly anyone gets married in our area these days anyway

@Devlesko wow, 40 weddings a year?
And way more funerals than that?
So an average week must be one wedding and one or two funerals as well? How on earth do you ever do anything else!
Or is it literally like you go to church every Saturday and there is always a couple of remembrances and a wedding included in the weekly service?
Presumably you don't have a new outfit each time?

Myself, my brother and my sister all got married within a 10 month period. My poor parents.