Getting hitched? You may seriously want to consider eloping. The average cost of weddings is over $35,000, a $5,000 jump from the year before. Why so high? In a list of 2025 trends from a wedding planning website, researchers forecast more weekend-long activities, like pickleball tournaments, and hyper-specific guest dress codes. So long, “black tie;” hello, “gold gilded white-tie gala,” (whatever that means).

Source: The Knot, 11/17/24