But then what are you going to spend it on? What is important to you?' 'You need to know what you’re going to spend. 'First of all, I think it’s really important to set a wedding budget,' he said. According to Zola’s annual First Look Report, which was published in January, about one-third of couples are now budgeting at least $20,000 for their wedding, with two-thirds saying they increased their budgets since they started planning.įenoli's top tip for creating a budget is making sure to prioritize what you care most about. 'I think it allowed them to see who was really important in their lives,' he said.īut, the surge in weddings has also contributed to wedding costs rising across the board. However, the pandemic likely helped people 'put a lot of things in perspective.' 'I don’t know that the weddings are actually larger but I think there’s more to them,' he said. That’s largely because of the pandemic causing couples to delay their matrimonial celebrations.Īs far as the industry goes, Fenoli said he hasn't seen a crazy shift in the weddings themselves. In fact, this year is expected to have the highest number of weddings since 1984, Fenol said. 'But I don’t know that I anticipated it to the extent that it is, because it’s really been wild.” “So I kind of anticipated it,' he said in a recent Zoom interview. Randy Fenoli at Lauren Zanedis’ dress selection appointment on “Say Yes To The Dress.” (TLC / Half Yard Productions)Īt Kleinfeld Bridal, where the show is set, Fenoli said he knew they would get 'a lot more brides because so many weddings were put off or they did smaller, intimate weddings and now they wanted to have their big wedding.'

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