When Ontario gets married: the official month-by-month numbers, and when to start the groom's suit
Updated October 2026 · Sam’s Menswear editorial team
Ontario registered 74,437 marriages in 2025. That is the most in any year of the Registrar General’s monthly series, which goes back to 1994. 2024 was second, with 72,687. After the pandemic low of 40,628 in 2020, the province is marrying more than ever.
The monthly numbers show when it marries, and for a groom that sets the date he should be measured.
The months
The share of each year’s marriages falling in each month, pooled across 2022 to 2025 (285,130 marriages):
| Month | Share | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5% | 3,021 |
| February | 4.2% | 3,446 |
| March | 4.2% | 3,339 |
| April | 5.0% | 3,998 |
| May | 8.7% | 7,274 |
| June | 11.5% | 7,998 |
| July | 11.6% | 7,692 |
| August | 14.6% | 11,021 |
| September | 14.4% | 9,648 |
| October | 11.4% | 8,552 |
| November | 5.9% | 4,791 |
| December | 4.9% | 3,657 |
Three things the numbers say
Five months carry the year. June to October hold 63.5% of Ontario’s marriages, and August and September alone hold nearly three in ten. August 2025 had three times as many marriages as December 2025.
October has overtaken July. In 2010, July carried 15.0% of the year’s marriages and October 12.7%. By 2024 October had edged ahead (11.1% to 10.8%), and in 2025 the gap widened (11.5% to 10.3%). The heat of a Toronto July, venue prices, or the light of an autumn afternoon may all play a part. The numbers do not say which, only that the fall wedding is no longer the off-season.
Winter is quiet, not empty. November to March together hold 22.7% of marriages. Even so, January 2025 had 3,021 weddings and December 3,657. A winter wedding has its own questions, about sunset at twenty to five and cloth that reads under candlelight, but it is not rare.
So when does the groom start?
Two to three months before the date is comfortable. The suit itself takes three to four weeks, with one fitting on the finished garment. The rest is room to choose the cloth without hurry and to gather the groomsmen. The wedding suit timeline →
| Wedding in | Start between |
|---|---|
| June | Early March and early April |
| July | Early April and early May |
| August | Early May and early June |
| September | Early June and early July |
| October | Early July and early August |
| December | Early September and early October |
Because June to October hold most of the year’s weddings, most grooms are being measured in late spring and summer. If your wedding is in the peak, take the early end of the window. The cloth is the same either way, but the unhurried choice of it is not.
The party is the other half. The largest wedding party Sam has dressed was 38 men. A party of any size is easier when the groom starts first and the groomsmen follow inside the same window. Sam can come to the groom’s office or home for his first appointment and fitting. Groomsmen suit colours, drawn → · The groom’s suit →
Where the numbers come from
The Office of the Registrar General’s “Vital events data by month”, published on the Ontario Data Catalogue and last updated 12 June 2026. The shares above are our own arithmetic from its monthly counts.
The dataset counts marriages registered in each month. It does not say whether that is the month of the ceremony or of the paperwork, so a few weddings near a month’s end may be counted in the next. The shape is stable from year to year, and the 2015 to 2019 figures look much the same (August 16.0%, September 14.6%, December 4.5%). It covers every marriage in Ontario, not only Toronto’s.
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