Does anyone remember a post....?

Since I spend about 99.8% of my time on the internet here on LIW, I really think I saw a post recently, it might have had a link to an article that said the bridal industry is $50 mil (I think) per year industry...despite the lagging economy...even more people are getting married - something like that??

Since I have to write a speech for my speech class, I decided to do it on the bridal industry...they say talk about what interests you!

Can anyone help?

do a search thats all I got

heres something

wedding industry

here is one:

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Wedding & Honeymoon Statistics

Get the facts.



Whether you know it or not, weddings, honeymoons, and romantic tourism are big business. How big? Consider the following research statistics, facts and figures gathered from a variety of sources:

Every year an average of 2.4 million weddings are performed in the U.S.

Today's median age for first-time brides is 24.5 years. For grooms, it's 26.5 years.

$20,000 is the average amount spent on a traditional American wedding.

Among couples who choose a traditional wedding, 99 percent take a honeymoon.

Honeymoons comprise $4 billion-dollar-a-year industry.

Couples spend an average of $4,000 on their honeymoon. That's three times as much as the average U.S. adult spends on a vacation.

The length of an average honeymoon is nine days.

37 percent of honeymoon trips are to domestic locations; 63 percent are foreign.

Half a million couples will celebrate a destination wedding this year.

The leading destinations for out-of-town weddings are:
(Figures in parentheses indicate number of weddings performed annually.)

Las Vegas (100,000)
Hawaii (20,000)
U.S. Virgin Islands (5,100)
Jamaica (5,000)
Bahamas (4,000)
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Romantic Travel Statistics
The Travel Industry of America defines a romantic getaway as 'a trip with a spouse or other love interest without children to rekindle the romantic feelings in the relationship.'

Married couples are travelers: Married households represent the largest group of travelers, with 61 percent of all trips being taken by married households. Single households took 21 percent of the trips.

Romantic vacations are popular with all Americans, especially married couples. Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults (61.8 million Americans) said they took a romantic getaway in the past 12 months.

The average traveler took 2.5 romantic trips in the past year.

Romantic travelers have an average annual household income of $67,000, as compared to all other U.S. adults, with an average income of $45,000.

Romantic travelers without children in their households took more getaways in the past 12 months than romantic travelers with children (3.1 vs. 1.9 trips, respectively).

Among those surveyed, these were the most popular types of romantic getaways taken by Americans last year:

Visiting a city for dining and entertainment purposes - 74%
Getaways to beaches and/or lakes - 44%
Gambling vacations - 21%
Golf/tennis vacations - 12%
Cruises - 12%
Skiing trips - 7%

Of couples surveyed who took a romantic getaway in the last 12 months, one-half took one such trip (51%), one-fourth took two romantic trips in the past year (26%), and one in ten (10%) enjoyed 5 or more vacations a deux a year.


Sources:
Association of Bridal Consultants
National Bridal Service
National Center for Health Statistics
Travel Industry Association of America

Im in the wrong business

That's the whole point of my speech, WAcky!

hey maybe we could all go into business

DO YOU NEED SOME PROPS I AM SURE SOME OF US BRIDES WOULD LOVE TO DRESS UP FOR YOU, CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING 30 BRIDES PRANCIN AROUND THE ROOM WHILE YOU GIVE YOUR SPEECH.. NO STRESS

LMAO!!

The book says one way to alleviate stage fright is to have props...

I think it would be a great accent to your speech

Don't know if anyone mentioned it yet but The Great Bridal Expo has a lot of info like that under the part trying to sign on exhibitors.