Do you think the wedding industry is changed for a long time?

Your question can be trimmed to: will there always be extravagant exhibitionists eager to show off by throwing around money? The question on whether there will be always be someone around eager to catch that money requires neither reflection nor reasoning.

I hate to see anyone’s business destroyed, for whatever reason, after putting years of hard work into bulding it up. So just let me say, I certainly hope so. And I’m not going to get all political here, but let me just say that there is a certain mind set out there, who really believe that the entire covid thing is a hoax and conspiracy. And the refusal to cooperate on their part or to get vaccinated, may yet throw a monkey wrench into the seeming, slow recovery. Time will tell.

If Covid is more-or-less under control, then ‘big’ weddings will come right back. There’s too much money to be made in the wedding industry.

I’d tend to agree with @elbanditoroso and I hope he’s right. But as stated, I don’t have a lot of faith in the far ight conspiracy think crowd, to do the right thing. As my Old Pappy used to say, a zebra doesn’t change his stripes.

My job has annual holiday parties with 500+ guests, at a large hotel and conference center. I know the people who work in the catering section of the hotel are currently on furlough because there are no big events going on right now, but they are eager to get back to it once restrictions ease up.

There will always be a certain segment of society who, because of having many contacts, will want and require large weddings.

My aunt had a large wedding in the early 1980’s and at that time, it was $40,000 which was astronomical at the time. I remember she paid 10k for the flower arrangements alone.

I can’t imagine going back to packed theater houses on Broadway and packed holiday parties and packed conferences but it’s coming – maybe not this year but next year, for sure. A lot of careers and salaries depend on it.