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'We'll lose thousands if wedding rules don't change' - Yahoo News
Jun 12, 2021 1 min, 34 secs

Miss Holmes "struggled to understand the disparity" in rules between weddings and larger sporting events.

"It's not just a party.

"If it was as simple as it being just a party, people would be up in arms about birthday parties.

"Ultimately, for ourselves and thousands of other couples and suppliers we just want weddings to take place in a meaningful and a safe way.".

Miss Holmes said the rules for weddings were still the same as they were last summer, despite advances in vaccines and testing, as well as the ability to track and trace guests.

"We just don't understand why the government can't use the tools that it has created to ensure that this sector can reopen fully and to ensure that couples can have what we've been saving up for and been planning for a very long time.

"It just seems really unfair and unusual to me in that weird paradox where you can have a stag do, but you can't have a wedding in the same way," he said.

Tess Forsyth, a director of wedding venue The Tudor Barn, in Burnham, said her company runs at a loss when hosting weddings with the maximum permissible number of 30 attendees.

"At the moment, the numbers just don't work for us," Ms Forsyth said.

Wedding photographer Chris Hill said some of his clients had rescheduled dates as many as five times.

Suzanne Kingshott, a wedding florist from Hot Flowers and Art near High Wycombe, said about two-thirds of her company's income came from weddings and office displays, so lockdown had been "challenging".

Ms Kingshott said many of her clients planning July and August weddings felt in limbo with the uncertainty of what they're going to be allowed to do on their big day.

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