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This section covers weddings in the United States — planning trends, ceremony and reception traditions, venue business and the economics of the wedding industry. Reporting takes in both the cultural and commercial dimensions of how people mark marriage.


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Wedding cost surveys and the spending trends they document, venue openings and the markets they serve, trend coverage that tracks how ceremony and reception formats are evolving, the business conditions facing wedding vendors and the cultural shifts that change what couples choose to do are the recurring subjects here. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix are the largest wedding markets by spending and volume, and industry data from those cities tracks national trends most reliably. Destination wedding growth has generated a sustained secondary coverage thread as a larger share of couples have chosen to hold events outside their home cities or countries, reshaping the venue and vendor landscape. Wedding cost inflation has been a persistent structural story, as catering, photography, venue and floristry prices have each risen in ways that have pushed total spending figures to new levels and generated recurring consumer and industry coverage.