Weddings, Postponed During Covid, Had a Banner 2022

With weddings coming back in a big way, and costs climbing, couples are now more willing to consider getting married on a weekday

Let them eat wedding cake. About 2.6 million couples are saying “I do” this year—roughly 600,000 more than in prepandemic years, according to The Knot, a company that offers wedding-planning tools, a vendor marketplace and a gift-registry platform.

The wedding boom is the byproduct of two years of the pandemic, when many ceremonies were postponed or pared down, says Lauren Kay, executive editor of The Knot. And ceremonies this year have a whole new vibe. Now, “people feel empowered to personalize, push the envelope—rules are out the window,” Mrs. Kay says.

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