U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, with nearly 2.1 million new unions in 2022. That's a 4% increase from the year before. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the data Friday, but last year's marriage data have yet to be released. In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.7 million U.S. weddings — the lowest number recorded since 1963.
New York, the District of Columbia and Hawaii saw the largest increases in marriages from 2021 to 2022. Nevada — home to Las Vegas' famous wedding chapels — continued to have the highest marriage rate in the nation, though it decreased slightly from 2021. The number and rate of U.S. divorces fell slightly in 2022, continuing a downward trend, the CDC said. Overall, marriages remain far less common than they once were in the U.S.