--- title: "Digits: 7-figure weddings, the IRS on a roll, and more newsy numbers - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Couples say “I dough,” the IRS checks off its to-do list, and Squarespace aims to master its domain." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1945870334-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_6_26_20230625234259.webp --- # Digits: 7-figure weddings, the IRS on a roll, and more newsy numbers ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: June 26, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1) **The cottage cheese industry is really milking the opportunity to serve the ~40% of adults who want more protein in their diets, churning out huge profits in the process. In the last year, [**sales have risen 15.9% to $1.2B**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/cottage-cheese-recipes-gen-z-discovers-98941401?mod=wknd_pos1), and TikToks with the hashtag #cottagecheese have [340m+ views,](https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/hashtag/cottagecheese/pc/en?countryCode=US&period=120) 135m of which came in the last 120 days. ![wedding cake topper](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1945870334-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_6_26_20230625234259.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1945870334-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_6_26_20230625234259.webp) **2) **Weddings have a lot of couples saying “I do” to debt. With the estimated cost of the average American wedding ballooning to $30k, 30%-45% of newly married couples in the US took on debt to pay for their big day. Helping to drive up the average: the [**13k+ US weddings that cost $1m+**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/luxury-wedding-planners-industrial-complex-cost/674169/) last year. **3) **Does your to-do list feel impossible? Let the IRS offer some hope for getting through it: Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, America’s federal tax agency slashed its backlog of unprocessed paper returns by 80%, [**from 13.3m to 2.6m**](https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-return-backlog-answering-calls-7798ae85ac160cbd6939131ef477608d). Want to call with your congrats? It may actually work — 35% of customer service calls are now answered, up from 11%. **4) **What a site! Squarespace is hoping to continue domain-ating the website-building business with its ~$180m purchase of Google Domains’ assets, including [**10m domains**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-15/alphabet-selling-google-domains-assets-to-squarespace?sref=3Ac2yX40), as the Google unit looks to wind down. 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