The celebrity couple were part of a massive rebound for marriages that were put on hold during the pandemic, new data show.
Marriages jumped 4 percent to nearly 2.1 million couples saying ‘I do’ in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.7 million US weddings — the lowest number recorded since 1963.
Nevada remains the destination of choice for many Americans when they tie the knot
Lopez and Affleck were wed at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on a hot and cloudy Sunday in July 2022
The pandemic threw many marriage plans into disarray, with officials ordering people to stay at home and banning large gatherings to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Marriage data for 2023 is not yet available.
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 slightly decreased from 2021.
That’s where Lopez and Affleck tied the knot — at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on a hot and cloudy Sunday in July.
Couples wait to be married during a Valentine’s Day wedding ceremony on the steps of the Miami-Dade County Courthouse
Marriage rates bounced back from the pandemic in 2022; divorce rates continued to fall
Newlyweds Rosa and Miguel pose after a group wedding ceremony for seven couples in Santa Clarita, California
Other celebrity weddings of 2022 included the unions of Anya-Taylor Joy and Malcolm McRae, and Tiffany Trump and Michael Boulos.
Meanwhile, the number and rate of US divorces in 2022 fell slightly, continuing a downward trend, the CDC said.
In 2020, the divorce rate dipped from 2.7 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2020.
It bounced back, however, to 2.5 in 2021 and saw a steady decrease once again, to 2.4 per 1,000 population in 2022.
Overall, marriages remain far less common than they once were in the US.
According to data that goes back to 1900, weddings hit their height in 1946, when the marriage rate was 16.4 per 1,000 people.
The rate was above 10 in the early 1980s before beginning a decades-long decline. In 2022, the marriage rate was 6.2 per 1,000 population.
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