oh look, the elusive $5 million wedding in the wild!

What have we learned about marriage this year?

We learned that young marriages are on the decline.
We found out some guys hate their wives so much, they concoct elaborate plans to kill them.
Oh, here’s a good one – we know that you can end up being allergic to your husband’s semen.
We also now know that in 2013, you can propose on Twitter, whether you’re a celebrity or a faceless nobody. Ugh.
And most importantly, we learned that even on OBC, people are meeting, falling in love, and getting married.

Today, let’s add somethin’ else about marriage – it’s only for elitist, upper class, yuppies. According to a new study out of University of Virginia and Harvard, average to lower-middle class folks are eschewing marriage, cause the chance of marriages going south is so high and the economy so crummy that it just ain’t worth it.

Via Mail Online:

‘Marriage is becoming a distinctive social institution marking middle-class status,’ said Sarah Corse, an associate professor of sociology in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, and the study’s lead author.

‘Working-class people with insecure work and few resources, little stability, and no ability to plan for a foreseeable future become concerned with their own survival and often become unable to imagine being able to provide materially and emotionally for others,’ she added.

So, what’s that mean for all of us sitting in that middle-ish, not-struggling-but-not-buying-million-dollar-cars region? Well, we’d say play it safe – don’t get married till you know you are mentally, emotionally, and monetarily stable.

And maybe don’t get engaged at nineteen, if if you ARE a kabillionaire.