Corrine Sweet
The Royal Wedding marks the start of the wedding season... but boyfriends and partners beware! Women expect you to pop the question - two years and five months into a relationship.
Research published today by ‘I love natural cork’* found that most women can’t help dropping hints and begin window shopping for engagement rings around this time.
They questioned 2,000 women who are either married or in a long term relationship. Although half of women claim it doesn’t matter who pops the question, in reality it does.
Nine out of ten women waited for their partners to do so, and one in ten women had already dumped one boyfriend because they waited 'too long' for him to go down on one knee.
Three quarters of the women surveyed are still waiting.
Popping that all important cork was the most popular way to celebrate an engagement with 70% of those questioned declaring that a wedding ‘just wouldn’t be the same’ without the sound of a Champagne cork popping.
Over a third of married women had saved a cork from their wedding day as a keepsake.
Top British broadcaster and psychologist Corrine Sweet talks about the ingredients for the perfect engagement, the vodcast also sees members of the public being asked about their views on’ popping the question’ and how long a girl should wait...
*A campaign to persuade UK wine consumers to choose wine with natural cork stoppers because of cork’s environmental, economic and social benefits