Every year, almost 2.4 million couples marry in the United States and
splurge almost 60 billion dollars on their wedding day. Also according to
the IESE study ‘Millennial Brides. Born in the 1980s, getting married
today’ the US is also the third largest manufacturer of wedding
dresses worldwide and produces over 1.8 million wedding dresses a year with
its annual turnover from
dresses alone reaching almost 2.8 billion dollars.
Figures indicate that weddings – whether in the US or any part of the
world continue to hold strong importance, which means a huge investment
from the bride and groom’s sides. And it of course also means a huge
opportunity for businesses related to the entire wedding event. Hence, no
wonder that the US wedding market amounts to 60 billion dollars including
over 585,000 businesses, employing over 915,000 people – as IBISWorld
report says..
The fourth and last part of the FashionUnited’s series on weddings
across major parts of the world focuses on the United States…The article
will be published on Friday June 17. Read it on FashionUnited.uk
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