NEW YORK -- Guests are jittery, travel is tangled, and soon-to-be brides and grooms are facing tough choices because of the coronavirus outbreak: postpone, cancel or forge ahead with their weddings?
Rescheduling or cancelling raises a world of questions. What are the odds that vendors will all be available on the same new date and time? Will couples lose money, in deposits and beyond already paid? Standard wedding insurance doesn't cover anxiety over a spreading virus that has come with restrictions on travel and large gatherings in spots around the world. Some insurance companies are fielding a barrage of queries over how policies work in such a unique situation.
"We are on crunch time," said Holly Marsh, one of the owners. "If the wedding is in June, and the dress is supposed to be here in February and it's not going to get here until May, what do you tell them?" Photographer Michael Busada in Washington, D.C., relies on weddings for about half his business. He has 36 weddings under contract this year, including one that was recently cancelled after the bride was possibly exposed to the virus. Another wedding went from a large venue with 150 guests to a home ceremony with 20. A 10-hour day for Busada dropped to three hours of work."Everybody's struggling. It doesn't do me any good to be the bad guy," he said.
Thanks to you people in the media. Shameful!
susie_parker Definitely won’t be booking many makeup jobs this summer...
Yea, as a makeup artist I had March and april weddings books and have had 2 cancellations. Yikes!
STAHP
Who still he's married?...
no crowds means no weddings..
Whatever. They overprice everything. CBC marketplace has a good video on YouTube about how much wedding industry is a scam.
Hasn’t the Coronavirus put every industry on edge?
divorce lawyers gonna feel the pinch if these weddings don't happen
Next year for me and I want omber and colors? 💞
Our company,galactic_ent has booked a couple of weddings and grad events this week. A nice surprise after having all of our production bookings cancel until Mid-April so far.
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Oh my god JUST STAY HOME