Istat: Covid has also affected weddings. The “yes” number almost halved in the first phase of the pandemic

ROME. In 2020, the pandemic caused many people to postpone or give up their wedding. According to the Istat report, weddings celebrated in Italy were 96,841, 47.4% less than in 2019. Especially weddings with a religious rite (-67.9%) and first marriages (-52.3%) declined. .

For the first nine months of 2021, provisional data indicate a doubling of marriages compared to the same period of 2020, but the recovery is not enough to recover what was lost in the previous year. Civil unions between same-sex partners also decreased (-33.0%), separations (-18.0%) and divorces (-21.9%).