Far fewer Americans said 'I do' during the first year of the pandemic, when many marriage plans were upended, the CDC says. There were 1.7 million weddings in 2020, a drop of 17% from the year before and the lowest recorded since 1963.
FILE - Wedding dresses are displayed at a bridal shop in East Dundee, Ill., on Feb. 28, 2020. Far fewer Americans were married during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of U.S. marriages in 2020 being the lowest recorded since 1963, according to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
NEW YORK — Far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended, a new report finds. The plunge was not exactly a surprise since the U.S. marriage rate had been on the decline since 2016.
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