BRIDES & GROOMS: Rest assured, romantics: All the weddings canceled over the last couple of years have found a happy home, and that home is … 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. The rest are likely to be dominated by couples who became engaged during the pandemic.
“When people started quarantining, they started prioritizing their relationships more,” said Elizabeth Overstreet, a relationship and love coach in Raleigh, N.C. “They had a lot of time to think about, ‘Is this the person I want to be with?’ The way I would put it is, love has taken precedence in people’s lives.”

For context, the uptick in weddings this year is substantial but not mind-blowing. Around 2.1 million weddings happened each year between 2009 and 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with a relatively puny 1.3 million happening in 2020 and 1.93 million in 2021, according to the Wedding Report).

For those forging ahead, bottlenecks aplenty could await, especially because the pandemic has spurred challenge after challenge for the multibillion dollar wedding industry. Less clear are the elements that will shift the most, and how couples and guests can get a grip on them.

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.
Tara Melvin, the founder of Perfect Planning Events in Washington, D.C., said the added expense this year can be blamed on inflation and continuing supply chain kinks.

“Our vendor partners, especially floral designers, are having a hard time getting things from manufacturers,” she said. “Even paper for invitations is hard to come by.”
For those same reasons, wedding guests can also plan on increased expenses. In 2019, guests spent an average of $430 to attend a wedding, according to a study by WeddingWire, a site that tracks trends and operates an online marketplace for the industry. But in 2022, that number is likely trending up. Not just because of all the registry gifts and bridesmaid dresses or other attire people invited to multiple weddings may need to purchase, but also because as fuel costs rise, transportation has gotten more expensive, too.

The higher cash outlay for couples planning weddings is not necessarily an indication that 2022 celebrations will get bigger. Mr. McMurray said guest counts have been diminishing since the mid-2000s, and he expects 75- to 100-person weddings to continue to be most popular.

That doesn’t mean huge, extravagant weddings won’t happen. Maryam Mudrick and Justine Broughal, the owners of Greater Good Events in Jersey City, N.J., are seeing more couples who want nothing to do with the micro-wedding trend that sprouted in response to the pandemic.

“The reaction this year has been, ‘We’ve waited so long, we want to go big,’” Ms. Broughal said. “People who booked us in 2019 are moving to 2023 if they have to, because they want to keep their initial 200-plus guest count.”

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Days of Noah and Lot... eating drinking, MARRYING and giving in MARRIAGE

It is so amazing and Fearful to witness the news and Events on earth Mirroring Endtimes Prophecies just exactly as the Holy Bible said it will be.

Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

You don't need to be told that we are living in the days of Noah and Lot.
Whatever you are engaging , do not let the happenings in the earth distract you or take you out from JESUS Christ.
Time is soooo short! We are living in the Last of the Last days. JESUS Christ is Coming Quickly.