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By Nigel Maxwell

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Sask. wedding industry prepares for restrictions lift

Jul 8, 2021 | 5:00 PM

As of Sunday at midnight, all mandated COVID-19 related restrictions in Saskatchewan will come to an end, which affects people who have planning their weddings and the businesses that host and plan the events.

Skylar Brassard is getting married on Aug. 7 near Albertville, and told paNOW she is excited she can now expand her guest invites from 30.

“A lot of Facebook messages last minute,” she laughed.

Meanwhile Violet Herdin is a wedding party planner in Prince Albert and owns Delicate Petals Event Planning, Rentals and Dresses. She told paNOW it’s too soon to see a big influx of requests

“We’ve had a lot of little weddings come through in the last two weeks. People are still going ahead and we may get a small order of nine table cloths, things like that,” she said, adding she is getting a lot of requests for tent type parties

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Herdin explained couples have gotten too far into planning to make big changes now, and so expects the bigger weddings to start in the fall and next year. In tems of offering advice to couples, Herdin said don’t leave the planning too late

“You have many components to a wedding, like you have your dress and stuff like that. A lot of times, you will try a sample dress on and have to order that, which takes four to six months,” she said.

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Nathalie Pawlachuk, marketing manager and special events coordinator at Candle Lake Golf Resort said she’s currently taking bookings into 2023. That’s because a lot of weddings panned for 2020, were simply postponed

“If you are looking to get married in the next couple years, I would start calling now,” she said.

With respect to the direct impact from the change on Sunday, Pawlachuk said it means longer hours and more staff.

“People have changed their wedding sizes from 30 people up to 100 or 300 and they are looking to get all their family together,” she said, adding that that means people coming in from British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.

Despite the lifting of restrictions on Sunday, Pawluchuk said staff at the resort are staying masked for the time being.

“We just feel we want everyone to be comfortable as they come in through the change, and as people get more comfortable, we will lift that as well,” she said.

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