Research

Q2: How many couples/people are currently engaged?

Overall, the trend shows a global decline – but only a relatively small
one, from 69% in 1970 to 64% projected for 2020. At any given point in
the last five decades, around two-thirds of all women were married or
cohabitated. There are differences between regions.

Let’s break that down: On average, 1,825,743 couples become engaged
each year, and that means 282,900 of those proposals happen in
December.

2022. Roughly 2.5 million weddings are expected to happen this year,
the most since 1984, according to the Wedding Report, a trade group
that gathered its data through a survey of vendors and consumers.

A majority of the planned 2022 celebrations are rescheduled events
from the last two years.

Shane McMurray, the Wedding Report’s founder, has a tip. “If you’re
going to go through with a wedding in 2022, be patient,” he said. And
financially flexible, too, because he anticipates that the average cost of
a wedding in 2021, around $22,000, will rise to just under $25,000.