North Bay wedding businesses say couples are ready to say ‘I do’ again after putting it off in the pandemic

Two years after being decimated by the pandemic the wedding industry is getting hoarse singing “here comes the bride.”

The trade group Wedding Report anticipates there will be nearly 2.5 million weddings this year nationwide, a number that hasn’t been reached since 1984.

“We are booked out for this year. A lot of people had to reschedule from previous years so it’s been busier than we would like,” said Ben James who with wife Willow owns Willow and Ben Wedding Photography in Napa.

The pandemic brought the Wine Country wedding business to a standstill starting in 2020. People could not gather for large weddings for most of 2020 and in 2021 the rules kept changing, which made couples commitment wary in terms of putting down deposits.“People were scared to invest,” Katie Monroe with Kreate Photography in Santa Rosa told the Business Journal. “I had several people cancel their weddings and I had […]

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