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Without going in to details, as a 25 year old man, I'm feeling rather hard done by.  On Friday I will be attending my fourth funeral of someone close to me.  In contrast, I've only ever been to two weddings, and I was too young to remember one of them (and I've not seen the couple since).  This kind of ratio seems unfair to me, am I right or am I just feeling sorry for myself?

Not a pledge for pity, just interested in people's views and experiences.

Every couple has one wedding and two funerals (apart from these greedy gits who do vow renewal and that sort of rubbish)

2:1 ratio seems not far off, thinking about my own life, it may just be an age thing, I'm at a point in my life were my own generation aren't quite ready to marry yet but my grandparents/great-grandparents are looking a bit dodgy.

And if that isn't a morbid thought, who knows what is.

Hmm 3 funerals (Dad,Grandad and Nan) and 3 Weddings (Mum twice :D and Brother)

At 25 I'd been to one non family wedding.

At 30 I've lost count, the ratio will right itself over the next decade I should think.

The good news, you've got a lot of great piss ups to look forward to.

The bad, you've got a lot of presents, hotels and dry cleaning bills to pay for.

I'm 24 or 23, can't remember right now. 1 funeral 0 weddings. Small family.

First wedding this summer. Should be awesome as the Stag involves driving a boat around the Norfolk Broads for a few days, getting battered. Hopefully nobody will drown, and we won't crash too much. Its crazy to think that someone of the same age as me is getting married though.

see OF theres the difference between swindon and oxford, most people from swindon are divorced by 24

Really dont think about it. Will be going to another funeral soon and it's made me realise how unimportant most of the stuff I worry about is.

I couldn't agree more, I actually nodded my head like a simpleton while reading that.  Funerals really put daily life in to perspective.

about 15 weddings and 10 funerals (but I am 50)

yeah it's certainly true. This will be the third I will have gone to in three and a half years. Two of those people were around 50. Makes me think I haven't been happy in three or so years, life's too short and im wasting it by being bitter and miserable

34 years old and probably been to fifteen funerals and five weddings.  Of those fifteen funerals I think ten have been my age or younger at the time.

Who wants to be my friend?

I think you're just getting into the swing of the weddings. Between 25 and about 32 we had at least a couple a year.

In the last 3 years, including this one coming, I would have been to 4 weddings. No funerals though.

Does this mean I'm going to have a run of funerals to attend. Gulp.

I'm 27 and have had 4 funerals 7 weddings in my life. I've got a potential 7 more weddings this year.

I've a pretty big family!! Expensive 2010 me thinks

I'm 31 and been to about 10 weddings already. Got six this year, inclouding my own.

Been to about five funerals, two of which were for people under the age of 25, which kind of puts any worries into context. The sight of one mum collapsing at her son's funeral (died in a car crash) will haunt me forever.

4 funerals and no weddings...

4 funerals
6 weddings i think

14 funerals and 12 weddings, but then again 2 of those weddings were my own!

But I am nearly 44!

At 26 I've not been to many of either.

4 Weddings - All of which took place before I was 13.

2 Funerals.

You came to my wedding...

No, I didnt...

I came to the reception after we got beat by fucking Cheltenham!!

I wouldnt class the reception as the actual wedding if that makes sense.

The last wedding I went to was in May

The couple split up in September!

rubbish!

If I marry a rich girl you can come to my wedding.

why does it have to be a rich girl?

I think Si meant to say

If I marry rich, girl you can come to my wedding.

Ouch.

I could do with a hefty divorce settlement.

Oh right, well good luck with that then!

Ouch indeed! I was bridesmaid! I mean Ive not even finished the bottle of perfume I was given as a gift for being the bridesmaid and the marrige is over!
Do you think it would be OK to sell the bridesmaid dress on Ebay now???

What else do you need it for?

EXACTLY! Its not even a conventinal bridesmaids dress - Its a dress from Monsoon

 Too many of each to have any idea of numbers...these days though it tends to be more funerals  :bye:

4 Funerals o Weddings.

My first wedding is my own.  :-[

Blood hell, did the groom sleep with the bridsmades?


Oh wait you can take the 5th on that question then.

No the groom was just a wanker!

Half of everything for a few months, Fook that

Getting married fucks up your relationship (from experience). Plus they are ridiculously expensive. Stay single and shack up and spend what you would have done on getting hitched on enjoying yourselves in sin instead.

Funerals are sad but inevitable.

So the marriage wasnt consumated then!