Babies named KhaleesiAverage wedding cost in the US
American wedding budgets climbing through the Game of Thrones era, alongside the rise of babies named Khaleesi. There is a wedding somewhere with a dragon-themed dessert table; there is a Khaleesi at said wedding. The dataset is forgiving.
US average wedding cost climbed from about 25,000 dollars in 2011 to over 33,000 by 2018 as the venue, photography, and floral price stack inflated. Khaleesi as a baby name appeared on Social Security lists after Game of Thrones launched in 2011, peaking around the show's late seasons before declining post-finale. Two unrelated cultural-economic trends sharing a 2011-2018 window: a TV-driven name fashion ascending, and a wedding industry pricing more aggressively. The Mother of Dragons era inflated something else too.
Cultural moments and price tags often share a calendar. The same eight years rewarded grandeur in both registers.
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