Since reopening last summer, the Breakers have hosted weddings with an average attendance of 50 to 100. The biggest wedding was 150. “We meet with our risk management department and some members of the executive group every other week and review every upcoming event,” said Ms. Scarpinato.
Their security options include: limiting the capacity of indoor events to 50 percent, offering individually packaged meals, and shortening the cocktail hour.
Delete your weekends
As vaccinations and hopes spread across the United States, the race for wedding planning is on.
“Everyone is really concerned about putting a date on it and sending a new save-the-date so that their friends can’t get the date and get married in 2023,” said Ms. Blum, the event planner. “Every time I call, ‘No, that’s booked. ‘They’re trying to get people to have weddings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “
It’s a relief to a huge industry that has suffered during the pandemic. “It’s devastating from a small business perspective,” said Ceci Johnson, founder of Ceci New York, a design agency specializing in stationery.
Weddings ultimately bring the income of caterers, decorators, planners, florists, musicians, makeup artists, fashion designers, hairdressers, photographers, videographers, dance instructors, cleaners, limo drivers, and many other professionals.
Many planners expressed relief that the future won’t be filled with Zoom weddings and hope that the vaccine will revitalize their industry.
“If there’s one word I never want to hear again, it turns,” said Ms. Oren, the Los Angeles-based planner. “What I do is so tactile. I have no ambition to move what I do into the digital world. I think all people want to gather together and sweat it out on the dance floor. “