Twenty years after being legalized in Quebec in 2004, same-sex marriages peaked in 2024 at 743, but these marriages still represent only three per cent of all marriages, a proportion that has remained relatively stable for several years.

In its Bulletin on Marriages in 2024 published Wednesday, the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) highlights that marriages of all types remain rare in Quebec.

Overall, just over 23,000 weddings were celebrated in Quebec last year, a figure that falls within the range of 22,000 to 23,500 observed since the early 2000s. However, this represents a significant drop compared to the early 1970s, when this figure exceeded 50,000 weddings per year.

Unsurprisingly, there was a significant drop in the number of weddings in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemi

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