Interesting Facts About Engagement Trends

Shane McMurray found that in just 5 years the average engagement length has gone from 18 months to 15 months.  See graphs below.







Another interesting fact: during the recession there was a change in popular engagement months. More couples get engaged in July and August than in previous years. See table below.

	2005-2006	2007-2008	2009-2010
Jan	8.54%	9.03%	6.80%
Feb	8.83%	11.34%	7.00%
Mar	6.05%	8.88%	4.63%
Apr	7.53%	7.03%	5.42%
May	7.35%	5.44%	6.45%
Jun	7.94%	5.13%	6.48%
Jul	8.54%	6.41%	11.16%
Aug	8.36%	8.11%	10.23%
Sep	7.41%	9.85%	8.93%
Oct	6.11%	9.03%	9.53%
Nov	4.51%	5.18%	7.38%
Dec	18.85%	14.57%	16.00%

Source/s: Proprietary survey samples collected from 2005 to 2010