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The sold-out success of the Colorado Cannabis Wedding Expo indicates a growing popularity of cannabis culture as more and more people decide to tie the knot with some weed.

So you like exquisite dinners and sumptuous brunches combined with cannabis? You’re trying out a few recipes for craft cocktails that contain a shot of THC in addition to the bitters? Good for you: you’re vintage – that’s all i.e. 2014.

If the runaway success of a particular expo in Colorado over the weekend is any indication, the fastest-growing marijuana-related business appears to be the one offering weddings with cannabis additives.

No story about cannabis in 2017 is complete without another ever-increasing estimate of marijuana’s market value: $7 billion in legal cannabis was sold in 2016, and at some point in the next decade that will be $50 billion and more (if legalization and Jeff Sessions allow it). For now, at least, weddings are far superior to cannabis: the ritual of getting married is worth $53.6 billion a year, according to a 2013 estimate.

So perhaps it was only natural that weed and weddings would go together so well. This particular romance has manifested itself in a marijuana-friendly wedding chapel in Las Vegas and cannabis-focused wedding planners in Colorado, the latter of which, averse to more traditional (read: cannabis-free) wedding expos, opened their own.

The second annual Cannabis Wedding Expo took place over President’s Day weekend. As Fox-31 reported, more than 1,000 people flocked to a Denver suburb to learn how to incorporate weed into a wedding. Speaking of which, how exactly do you do that, aside from serving a cannabis-infused wedding cake or setting up a dab bar at the reception? Both are actually great ideas, but let’s not stop there.

Here is Philip Wolf, one of the founders of the Cannabis Wedding Expo:

“There are many different ways to incorporate cannabis into weddings, from cannabis-friendly hairdressers and makeup artists who let the bride smoke a joint beforehand, to full budtending services, to edible chefs.”

Other weed-friendly wedding solutions include placing a piece of Sour Diesel next to the other flowers in the bride’s bouquet, putting a nugget in the groom’s boutonniere, and dresses made entirely of hemp.

Since it’s unlikely that your grandmother’s ring or her heirloom veil had anything to do with marijuana, you can turn to the vendors present at the show if you’re having trouble making these weed-friendly wedding items yourself.

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