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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mike Stobbe | AP

‘Not been a great time for romance,’ with the fewest marriages in the United States since 1963

Wedding dresses on display at a bridal shop in East Dundee. Shutdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic helped see far fewer Americans get married in the United States in 2020. (Teresa Crawford / AP)

Far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic, as many wedding plans were upended.

That’s according to a new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said there were 1.7 million weddings across the nation in 2020. That was a drop of 17% from the year before and the fewest number of marriages in the United States recorded since 1963.

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