Early summer is a traditional season for wedding ceremonies in the U.S. Data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in 2007, shows that many marriages are between people of different religious faiths. According to the survey, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated are the most likely to have a spouse or partner with a different religious background, while Mormons and Hindus are the least likely to marry or live with a partner outside their own faith.
Source: Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 and released in 2008. Based on respondents who say they are married and respondents who say they are living with a partner.Results for other religious groups are not reported due to small sample sizes. Due to rounding, figures may not add to 100. 1. For mainline Protestants,evangelical Protestants andhistorically black Protestants, this categoryincludes marriages and partnerships between people from different Protestant denominational families (e.g., a Methodist married to a Lutheran).
