I don't: Function venues, celebrants hit with cancellations as virus disrupts wedding industry

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Weddings are being postponed and reception venues and celebrants are feeling the pinch as couples react to coronavirus concerns.

It's a problem no engaged couple could have possibly seen coming — a global pandemic causing them to postpone their wedding.Function venues and celebrants are assessing how they will copeBut as COVID-19 spreads in Australia and across the world, that is exactly what some couples have done.

It was an upsetting decision for the pair to make, but Ms Warner said it was one they ultimately made to protect their guests. With loved ones travelling from overseas and interstate, the couple thought holding the wedding was risky, especially given the compromised health of some elderly family members, who have respiratory issues, heart and liver conditions.It caused some of her older relatives to consider not attending and that was when the couple of five years decided to pull the pin.

 

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That’s dodging a bullet in my view.

As I like to call it “the law of unintended consequences”

Great, that's more people without work.

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