Nearly 300,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot in US since the Supreme Court's landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, according to study.
Wedding guests hold onto the chupah as, from left, Rabbi Claudia Kreiman, Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, marries Elisheva Dan and Mara Mooiweer during their wedding in Griggs Park in Brookline, Mass., on March 26, 2020.Julie Moreau
Same-sex weddings have generated $3.8 billion in local and state economic activity since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage five years ago this month, according to aThe report also found that gay weddings have generated an estimated $244 million in state and local taxes in the last five years and support 45,000 jobs a year.
Since the court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, 293,000 same-sex couples in the United States have tied the knot, over half of the 513,000 currently married gay couples in the country, according to the study, which used data from the government’s American Community Survey. Researchers found that same-sex couples spent an average of $11,000 on their weddings , coming to over $3.2 billion. On top of this, researchers estimated their out-of-state guests spent over $540,000 over the five years.
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