{"id":11047,"date":"2018-03-02T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/?p=11047"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:37:10","slug":"the-average-cost-of-a-wedding-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/cleveland-wedding-dj\/the-average-cost-of-a-wedding-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"The average cost of a wedding guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class='et-dropcap'>I<\/span>t's no lie that weddings are expensive. And, unfortunately, that cost has increased.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/videography\/the-average-cost-of-a-wedding\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recently reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the average cost of a wedding increased over the last few years, and that cost is expected to rise. Now, a new study from our friends at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theknot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Knot<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicates that the cost per wedding guest has increased, as well. The average is now $268 per guest, which is up $23 per guest from last year and $74 per guest since 2009. This may be why the average number of guests has decreased to 136 (down 5 from last year).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">The latest numbers are in from The Knot Real Weddings Study 2017. For the last 11 years, The Knot surveyed nearly 13,000 engaged and married couples to learn about their weddings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Other highlights from the survey include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average wedding cost: $35,329 (This is a increase of $2,688 from 2015's cost of $32,641 and $4,116 from 2014's cost of $31,213.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average cost of a wedding in Columbus, Ohio: $27,059<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Most expensive place to marry in the United States: New York City ($76,944)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Least expensive place to marry in the United States: New Mexico ($17,584)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average age of the bride: 29 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average age of the groom: 31<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average number of bridesmaids and groomsmen: 5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Most popular wedding month: December (16 percent of couples)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Average length of an engagement: 14 months<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: karla; font-size: 12pt;\">Most popular wedding colors: Ivory\/champagne (37 percent), dark blue (32 percent) and gold (30 percent)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: karla;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, contact SPE at (216) 870-4513 or <\/span><a href=\"mailto:scott@spedj.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scott@spedj.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no lie that weddings are expensive. And, unfortunately, that cost has increased. We recently reported that the average cost of a wedding increased over the last few years, and that cost is expected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[72,73,74,37,12,25,26,32,33,27,16,11],"class_list":["post-11047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-wedding-dj","tag-average-cost","tag-average-cost-of-wedding","tag-average-cost-of-wedding-guest","tag-cle","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-dj","tag-cleveland-wedding","tag-cleveland-wedding-dj","tag-cleveland-wedding-entertainment","tag-dj-and-emcee","tag-sound-precision-entertainment","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}