get hitched

“We got married on Nov. 13, 2018. Courthouses are notoriously not busy with weddings on the 13th day of the month due to superstition. If you don’t believe in stuff like that, it can be a super convenient day to get hitched.”

Fewer Taiwanese even want to get hitched these days.

Simpson and Tapia will get hitched Friday evening in a Spokane courthouse by Judge Aimee Maurer.

There's a highbrow version of this argument that's been playing out in the recent, tedious spate of articles scolding women for not being eager enough for marriage, all of which ignore the substantive reasons people of all genders have for waiting for the right person/time to get hitched.

Couples spent $30,000 per wedding to get hitched last year, up about $2,000 from 2021, according to an annual survey released Monday by The Knot, a New York City-based nuptials planning website.