Wedding and Honeymoon Statistics
Wedding & Honeymoon Statistics. Get the facts. Every year an average of 2.4 million weddings are performed in the U.S. Among couples who choose a traditional wedding, 99 percent take a honeymoon. Honeymoons comprise $4 billion-dollar-a-year industry. Couples spend an average of $4,000 on their honeymoon. That's three times as much as the average U.S. adult spends on a vacation. The length of an average honeymoon is nine days. 37 percent of honeymoon trips are to domestic locations; 63 percent are foreign. Half a million couples will celebrate a destination wedding this year. The leading destinations for out-of-town weddings are: (Figures in parentheses indicate number of weddings performed annually.) |
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