JAIPUR: The city’s wedding industry is recovering under the following disadvantages home department’s fresh restrictions limit the number of guests to 50.
Some wedding planners and retailers have been asked to advance back, reservations have been canceled and most people have refused to purchase their tailored clothes had ordered.
Kundan Lal, a trader sherwani in the Walled City, said although sherwanis groom being purchased, other family members have canceled their orders.
“People asked us to return their advances.
Many sherwanis ready-made, but the person who made the reason for collecting them.
We face huge financial losses, “said Lal.
As things began to look up in November and December last year and the business doing well, wedding planners, owners of tent houses and other retailers in the city have bought extra material in advance of the wedding season that will last until February 15.
However, , additional materials will now get wasted.
Chuttan Lal Saini, president of the Association of Flower Market in the city, said about 10,000 people associated with flower businesses face a 50% cancellation.
“With only 50 guests, no one will want a good decoration.
Therefore, florists and decorating workers will not have jobs in the next two months.
” Own tent, wedding bands, catering and music organizers also must return the advance payment.
Merchants complain that when they slowly recover from the loss, another wave of Covid have broken everything.
With only 50 guests, wedding switch to the hotels and resorts of lawn and garden wedding.
Bhawani Shankar, President Wedding Gardens Association in Jaipur, saying as they face losses due to a strict protocol, there are no restrictions imposed on hotels and resorts.
“Guidelines should be mentioned that the wedding lawn should be large enough to accommodate guests with social distance.
With a blanket bar on the guests, we again saw huge losses, while the resort and the hotel will make a profit,” says Shankar.