Let's have
some fun with numbers today. Every four years the World Cup is played. Every
four years the Financial Times of London assembles a team of brilliant
statisticians and mathematicians. They rent time on the best supercomputer
available. The goal is to predict the winner of the World Cup. They come close
but never get it right.
The distinguished media and financial
services company Bloomberg has waded into the numbers game. They have analyzed
a large amount of data on marriages, divorces, and the cost of the wedding.
They came up with an astounding conclusion as follows:
"The
cheaper the wedding, the longer the marriage."
The total cost of my wedding to Elena in
February of 2001 was as follows:
Contribution
to Cross Roads Bible Church: $200.00
Webvan for
wedding treats: $ 50.00
Pastor Samuel Nandakumar presided at the
wedding. Two of our readers were there-Joao and Djenane Santos. My platonic
roommate Jacqui Kwon was there. (She has since returned to South Korea.) I got
the feeling that no one there thought that the union would last that long.
Sadly, I have been to the weddings of
several dear friends. They were elaborate and expensive events. Those unions
did not last. There may be something to what Bloomberg said.
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