Before spending so much money on one day, there are a few considerations couples might want to take into account. The most expensive place to get married last year was Manhattan (an average cost of $76,328) — five times the cost of getting married in Utah, the least expensive place (where the average wedding cost just $15,257). New York - Manhattan $76,328 New York - Long Island $55,327 New Jersey - North/Central $53,986 New York - Westchester / Hudson Valley $52,954 Illinois - Chicago $50,934 New York - Outer Boroughs $49,781 Pennsylvania - Philadelphia $44,090 Rhode Island $41,914 California - San Francisco / Greater Bay Area $39,690 New Jersey - South $39,191 California - Santa Barbara / Ventura $39,187 Washington DC / Northern Virginia /Suburban Maryland $39,025 Connecticut $38,925 Massachusetts - Boston $38,665 Florida - Southern $38,155 California - Los Angeles $37,317 Louisiana $35,532 Hawaii $34,958 Maryland - Baltimore $34,409 Texas - Houston $33,809 Illinois - Chicago Suburbs $33,391 California - Orange County /Inland Empire $33,118 California - San Diego $32,941 Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh $32,359 Texas - Austin / San Antonio $31,886 
 
 2014 Average Wedding Budget Breakdown 
 
 Figures based on respondents who hired a professional vendor for the service. The average cost of a wedding last year exceeded $31,213, up 4.5% from $29,858 the previous year and an increase of 16% from a recent low of $26,984 in 2010, according to a survey of 15,800 brides by wedding website The Knot. About The Knot 2014 Real Weddings Survey 
 
 The 2014 Real Weddings Survey captured responses from nearly 16,000 US brides married between January 1 and December 31, 2014.
– In what some are calling one sign of an improving economy, if at the expense of newlyweds, a new survey by The Knot finds that the average cost of a US wedding jumped to $31,213 last year, marking a five-year high when adjusted for inflation. In its eighth report, the wedding site reveals in a press release that when it came to the 16,000 brides and grooms married in 2014 and then surveyed, most couples split that bill evenly with the bride's parents: On average, each footed 43% of the bill, with the groom's parents chipping in 12%. In fact, only 12% of couples paid for their weddings themselves. And sticking to the budget is apparently tough: 45% of couples didn't manage to do so (another 23% didn't even make a budget). As for the dress, brides spent an average $1,357. The survey also found that the most expensive place to wed was Manhattan, where the average price tag was $76,328 (which is actually down almost $10,000 from the previous year), while the least expensive was Utah, where weddings cost less than half the national average at $15,257. Couples are spending more per head, too, as the average guest list shrunk from 149 in 2009 to 136 in 2014. On the subject of marriage and money, according to a February Redfin survey, 38% of millennials say they have or intend to put off marrying so they can afford to buy a home, reports Bloomberg Business. MarketWatch notes the average wedding price happens to be $92 less than a 15% down payment on a $208,700 home—the country's median price last quarter. (Check out some of the celebrities who perform at weddings.)