{"id":1269,"date":"2012-02-19T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.123print.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2012-02-19T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T20:12:40","slug":"valentines-day-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/valentines-day-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"220,000 Valentine\u2019s Day Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers aren\u2019t in for 2012 yet, but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2012\/02\/13\/valentines-day-2012-by-the-numbers\/#ixzz1mf9bswgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow>newsfeed.Time.com<\/a>, the average number of wedding proposals on Valentine\u2019s Day each year is 220,000! That\u2019s 10% of all yearly engagements happening on one day! I, myself, was proposed to on Valentine\u2019s Day, and according to this statistic, it\u2019s fairly likely you were, too.<\/p>\n<p>And while Valentine\u2019s 2012 is barely behind us, the pressure is on. The newly engaged have to choose a date, select wedding colors, ask friends and family to participate in the wedding, find a church and reception venue, order and mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/Save-the-Date\" target=\"_blank\">save the date cards<\/a>, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you get too stressed out, let\u2019s consider some other interesting Valentine\u2019s Day factoids \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 82% of people would like an \u201cexperience\u201d instead of a gift for the romantic holiday.<br \/>\n\u2022 8 billion Sweethearts Conversation Hearts are manufactured each year by the New England Confectionery Company.<br \/>\n\u2022 15% of women send themselves flowers on Cupid\u2019s favorite day.<br \/>\n\u2022 65% of all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/go\/Valentines-Day\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine\u2019s Day gifts<\/a> are greeting cards.<br \/>\n\u2022 $367 million spent on Valentine\u2019s Day gifts for pets each year.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that yours was a great day to remember, too. And, if you were one of those who just got engaged: CONGRATULATIONS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers aren\u2019t in for 2012 yet, but according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[163,430,445,993,1216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}