There certainly has been some significant changes to the way that weddings and marriage operate in my lifetime. I recall that in the early 70s the average age of a bride and groom was the early 20s. Now people are, well, making sure that they are better suited for one another.

I do recall meeting a woman a few years back who was quite lovely, but rather heavily involved in a rather fundamentalist religious bent. When I explained to her, jokingly, that my partner and I had been "living in sin" for several years, she nodded her head slowly, and responded "Ahh... A common-law marriage". You could almost hear the internal gears in her head working it out.

Don't mind at all being a commoner.