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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.

Today's median age for first-time brides is 24.5 years. For grooms, it's 26.5 years.

$20,000 is the average amount spent on a traditional American wedding.

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.)
Las Vegas (100,000)
Hawaii (20,000)
U.S. Virgin Islands (5,100) Jamaica (5,000)
Bahamas (4,000)