If you want to get married somewhere really exotic, go to Mississippi. The state has the lowest per capita marriage rate in America. Marriage farm Nevada, by contrast, boasts a marriage rate of about 40 per thousand residents, nearly twice as high as the the next marryingest state, destination-wedding hotspot Hawaii. As for the rest of the country, many factors account for variations in marriage rates, including demographics, economic prosperity, and marriage laws. Perhaps most strikingly of all, the national marriage rate has declined from 8.2 marriages per thousand in 2000 to 6.8 marriages per thousand in 2010.