Marriage and Divorce

“Every nine minutes a couple in the UK get married.”

How could this be shown in a visual way?

One idea would be  take a piece of ribbon, and tie a knot in it every nine minutes. This would provide a literal representation of the phrase “tying the knot”  and would also provide a visual representation of the fact, in the hopes that this would make it more comprehensible. Another way we could do this would be to chime a bell (wedding bell) every nine minutes.

Conversely, statistics indicate that:

“Every four minutes, a couple in the UK gets a divorce.”

A way to represent this could be cutting the knot tied for marriages to contrast with those tied to demonstrate marriage.

One problem we would need to overcome with this task would be the fact that if our piece is 30minutes long altogether mathematics dictate that we would only have 3 actions to represent marriage, and 7 actions to demonstrate divorce.