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The Central Statistics Office has shown we are in the middle of the Irish wedding season. May and June’s top-of-the-cycle hotel rates confirm this often in an eye-wateringly expensive way.

The CSO also shows we wait longer to get married — if we decide to do so at all. The age of those tying the knot reached a record high last year. The grooms and brides of 2018 were, on average, 36.4 years old and 34.4 years old respectively. That fewer than half of marriages took place under the umbrella of the Catholic Church is another significant milestone.