Now they’re coming at a time when every choice can feel fraught. Weddings have always been high-stress events. When we looked into renting heaters in case our reception had to take place outside, we found they were already hard to come by for 2021 fall and winter festivities. We chose the latter, hoping that date would give us a better chance of not postponing again. The venue offered us the only remaining 2021 weekends: one in April and one in November. By the time my now husband and I tried to reschedule, every summer weekend and most summer weekdays were gone. When you combine the couples who delayed their 2020 weddings or receptions, those who had already planned to get married in 2021 and those who got engaged during the pandemic and scheduled new events, it’s unsurprising that there was a Hunger Games–esque rush for 2021 weekends. “We believe it’s going to be the biggest wedding year ever.” “We expect a 20% to 25% increase in weddings this year and into 2022, and we think about 47% of those 2021 weddings will be happening between July and October,” says Lauren Kay, executive editor of the Knot Worldwide (who happens to be a family friend).
The wedding-planning influencers I follow on Instagram have started posting videos of guests in tuxes and gowns getting antigen tests or showing their vaccine cards. The long-dormant wedding-party text chains have started pinging again. Now, as vaccines become readily available in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosens restrictions on large gatherings and Americans become increasingly bored with their empty social calendars, a glut of weddings is coming. The wedding industry as a whole saw a 34% decline in revenue, according to an IBIS World report-the drop likely would have been bigger, but many couples who rescheduled their weddings had to pay to keep their venues and vendors for an extra year. postponed their nuptials, canceled them altogether or, like us, had a legal ceremony and delayed the reception. Last year, about 1 million couples in the U.S.
In a typical year, Americans throw 2 million weddings, according to wedding website the Knot. A few months into the pandemic, we made the call to delay our big celebration until 2021. This was not the wedding of 220 people that we had originally planned.
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