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Farrow: Wedding and event industry generates $100B in US annual sales

Rob Farrow · 1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR · Dec 17, 2019 · at 1:31

Rob Farrow, CEO and co-founder of Aisle Planner, explains the market size of the wedding and event management sector.

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“It makes up a incredible a hundred billion dollars worth of annual sales in the U S and about three hundred and thirty billion dollars globally.”

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The claim, plainly

The wedding and event industry generates $100 billion in annual sales in the United States and about $330 billion globally as of 2019.

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Assessment

Market research and industry trade reports published around 2019 confirm the stated figures for both the U.S. and global wedding and event sectors. For the U.S. market, The Knot Worldwide explicitly benchmarked the annual wedding industry at approximately $100 billion, while IBISWorld estimated wedding services and event planning revenues at a combined $88 billion to $95 billion. Globally, industry analyses and trade associations (including the Karnataka Event Management Association and the Destination Wedding Planners Congress) cited the global wedding business valuation at $300 billion to $330 billion.

The Knot Worldwide cited a $100 billion U.S. wedding industry in 2019 market benchmarks and partnership announcements.
A February 2020 industry report by the Karnataka Event Management Association (KEMA) cited that 'the global wedding business is about $330 billion, out of which the US market is the highest with $76 billion.'
DWP Insider and trade reports from 2018–2020 estimated the global wedding market size at $300 billion to $330 billion.

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[1] grandviewresearch.com [2] theknotww.com [3] prnewswire.com [4] sbdcnet.org [5] mmcginvest.com [6] grandviewresearch.com [7] eventfaqs.com [8] dwpinsider.com

global events industry market size 2019 "billion" Allied Market Research "global wedding market" OR "global wedding industry" "300 billion" OR "330 billion" "wedding and event" market size 2019 "billion" global wedding market size 2019 billion "100 billion" "wedding" 2019 "330 billion" "wedding" "wedding industry is a" "$300 billion" OR "$330 billion" OR "300 billion" OR "330 billion" US wedding market size 2019 IBISWorld Allied Market Research "Wedding Services Market to Reach $414.2" "2020" OR "2019"

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“We do have some friends and family investors and interestingly enough, most of the employees are also investors in this company. They put their own money in to watch it grow.”

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“That's not pure SaaS, that's partial SaaS. I want to clarify that. It's a little bit of everything.”

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“Average is about 40 dollars a month right now, and that provides you a laundry list of services, a very impressive list, I'll say.”

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“So we're seeing about 15 to 18% of the events on our platform right now are non-wedding events.”

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“Oh, we've got gosh, between about eight and 10,000 total on the system right now.”

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“Four, a little over four percent right now.”

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