So last Sunday I worked the Eastern PA Bridal Expo at Lehigh University’s Rauch Field House, as I do every year. It’s a lovely event for those who just got engaged and are in the wedding planning process. Brides walk about aisles and aisles of wedding resources-everything from officiates to travel experts-with their red stickers identifying them as the bride.

Watching the women wander about with glazed-over faces, drifting from booth-to-booth enjoying cake and hors d’oeuvres samples, I wondered how accurate a statistic I recently heard on the “NBC Nightly News” was. It stated that for the first time in U.S. history, the census calculated that the percentage of single households was higher than the percentage of married households. To put that into perspective, in the ’70s the statistic reflected married households outnumbering single households by nearly 20 percentage points. While the difference amounted to just two percentage points in this instance, I was curious as to whether this trend would continue and what would happen if it did.

This year has certainly proven to become quite the wedding season for me. It’s actually been rather interesting because I’ve been invited to and attended three very different weddings with one more coming up in two weeks.