A New York wedding planner says her clients are spending $200,000 on extravagant wedding weekends, tapping into lockdown savings

• Couples are splashing out on 2022 weddings after saving money during the pandemic.
• One wedding planner told the NYT that some clients were spending $200,000 for a wedding weekend.
• Previously, her clients spent about $100,000 on average, she said.

Couples that delayed weddings during the pandemic are going all out on celebrations in 2022, industry insiders told $4.

New York state-based wedding planner Magdalena Mieczkowska told The Times that her clients were now spending as much as $200,000 on wedding weekends for 2022.

Previously, her clients spent about $100,000 on average, she said.

Mieczkowska specializes in "unique weddings" across the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, and New England.

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She gave two reasons for the jump in spending. Firstly, clients that have postponed weddings during 2020 and 2021 have $4 during the pandemic and now have more to spend. Secondly, vendors - caterers or photographers, for example - are charging more for their services to recoup losses from 2020.

Demand is also soaring. $4 estimates that there will be nearly 2.5 million weddings in the US in 2022, which would be the $4.

"It's absolutely booming." Meg Van Dyke, a Pittsburgh-based wedding planner, said of demand in conversation with The Times.

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