{"id":724,"date":"2009-11-23T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2009-11-23T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:20:25","slug":"report-bridal-market-to-reach-9-2-billion-by-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/report-bridal-market-to-reach-9-2-billion-by-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bridal market to reach $9.2 billion by 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rock-music-blog-online.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/09\/12\/platinum_wedding_ring_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"Platinum_wedding_ring_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wedding-rings-novell.com\/images\/2008\/09\/12\/platinum_wedding_ring_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Platinum_wedding_ring_2\" width=\"200\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljewelernetwork.com\/njn\/content_display\/diamonds\/e3i0df7faafa28db3e9542f4ee1ceb2c728?imw=Y\">National Jeweler Network<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Tucson, Ariz.\u2014A new report by a market research Web site for the wedding industry shows that engagement and wedding ring sales are slated to increase 13.4 percent over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweddingreport.com\/\">TheWeddingReport.com<\/a>, engagement ring spending will total $6.1 billion in the United States in 2008, with another $2 billion in spending on wedding rings for brides and grooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">This $8.1 billion bridal market will increase to $9.2 billion by 2013, a growth of 13.4 percent over five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">The vast majority of both engagement and wedding rings will contain diamonds, and more than two-thirds will be white gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">The report also sheds some light on the habits of those popping the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">According to the report, December is the most popular month for engagements, and Saturday is the most popular day for popping the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Couples typically begin their bridal ring research more than six months before their wedding, with style and cost the top two factors influencing their purchasing decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljewelernetwork.com\/njn\/content_display\/diamonds\/e3i0df7faafa28db3e9542f4ee1ceb2c728?imw=Y\">bridal market 9.2 billion dollar forecast<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the bridal industry recession-proof?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[56,296,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}