Couples in the United States spend the most on weddings. As of 2019, a wedding in the United States cost on average 29.2 thousand U.S. dollars. Spain and Italy followed, with 23.4 thousand and 22.5 thousand U.S. dollars, respectively. The study is based on interviews of couples in 14 countries worldwide.

The average cost of a wedding with 130 guests in Spain stood at 20,000 euros as of September 2023. This includes the expenses laid out for all products and services, such as clothing, music, banquet and invitations. The price of a wedding can vary greatly and is highly conditioned by the future new weds’ financial means or their taste. Thus, the price of a wedding in Spain could potentially balloon up to 32,000 euros and go as down as 12,000 euros. Over the past 16 years, the cost of a wedding dwindled slightly, except for a short-lived upward trend witnessed between 2013 and 2019.

Spain: the Europeans that tie the knot the oldest
The mean age at first marriage in Spain was, along with Sweden, one of the highest in the European Union. Based on this setting, it is no wonder that many Spanish autonomous communities featured quite elevated average age at the time of marriage - particularly in the Canary Islands, where the average age at first marriage stood at around 42 years old for men and nearly 37 for women.

Easy come easy go

Marriage might be undergoing a declining popularity among Spaniards, or so it would seem by its national (heterosexual) marriage figures, which have experienced a slight decrease over the last years. This information translates into a national average of around 3.12 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants, with the region of Ceuta recording the highest numbers on the list of marriage rate in Spain. On top of that, Spain also appears at the top of the list of the highest divorce rates in Europe, with 85 divorces per 100 marriages carried out in this country, only exceeded by the rate of Portugal.

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August was the most popular month for weddings in England and Wales in 2022, with 33,676 marriages taking place in this month. Unsurprisingly, the other Summer months of June and July were also popular choices, as well as September. With just 6,367 weddings occurring in January, this was the least popular month for weddings. When is the most popular day for a wedding? In 2022, Saturday was the most popular day of the week for weddings, with Friday a distant second. In fact, during that year, the top 31 dates for weddings were all Saturdays, with 3,500 weddings taking place on Saturday July 30, the most popular date for holding a wedding in that year. Monday was the least popular day of the week for a wedding in 2022, while Christmas Day (Sunday 25, December) had just three weddings taking place, the fewest of any date in that year. Cost of weddings on the rise The average cost of a wedding has increased from around 17,300 British pounds in 2021 to approximately 23,250 by 2024. Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, the cost of a wedding fell to 9,100 pounds in 2020, before recovering slightly to around by 2021. Wedding venues were the largest expense, costing around 6,286 pounds, with catering also setting people back by around 4,419 pounds. When compared with other countries, UK weddings cost less than those in the United States, Spain, Italy and Canada, but more than France, Portugal and Mexico, among other countries.