Till Death do us Part?
That's it. You've overcome paralysis, runaway horses, dodgy pies and cyclones to walk down the aisle and officially become man and wife. Happily ever after then?
Well, no, not really. At the last time of hearing eight couples of the 23 that have married are still together. That's including Edward and Peta which wasn't actually legal and Edward should have really popped his clogs by now. Another nine couples have seen their spouses die at some point and the remaining six found that just weren't for each other.
So, of those that are apparently still together, there's something very telling about those that are still together as far as we know, they were written out pretty quickly afterwords. Will and Gypsy were "married" about 5 minutes before they left the soap. Dan and Leah are currently breaking the rule, having been married for 2 years, however a stray spart of lightning or a runaway steamroller could soon put paid to that.
Of all those that were married on the show, Alf and Ailsa inevitably spent the longest together on the show at 12 years. To be together that long Dan and Leah would need to stay on the show till 2017. Ben and Carly have been together for 17 years now and whilst they will probably never be seen together on screen again, it would come as a big surprise if they were broke up.
And till death do us part? Might come sooner than you think! If we ignore Brad marrying Emily virtually on her deathbed a few couples have hardly got home from the honeymoon before one of them carked it. Both Noah and Graham died within two months of getting married and Shane died on first anniversary. Well, I guess it was better way to remember the day than cheap plonk and soggy sandwiches.
And those that got married and then split up. Surpising there is fairly few of them, possibly because one dies before it happens. Marilyn and Don were together for three years before it went belly-up. The others however, in general, were unmitigated disasters, of young couples rushing into marriages or being forced into them by pushy-mothers. Just think how much that wedding cost!
So, if you're thinking of proposing don't expect it to be a bed of roses. Think of it as torture, heartbreak, death. That's unless your contract is up in the next few months.
Overview thanks to Ryan.