Love in the time of coronavirus
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Covid-19 has ruined millions of wedding plans. Will 2021 spark a race to the altar for those unable to tie the knot? California couple Lauren and Patrick Delgado tell their story. We also hear from Jordie Shepherd, host of the Corona Brides podcast, and the bride tear-gassed on her wedding day. Also, has Covid-19 put an end to the Big Fat Indian Wedding? We ask Lalita Raghav at the wedding planners Ferns N Petals.
Picture: Bride and groom figurines are pictured wearing face masks (Credit: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today we look back at 2020, a nightmare year for the global wedding business. |
| 0:10.4 | It's been very hard emotionally, economically. It's been a very trying time in the last one year. |
| 0:18.6 | Yes, we have some heart-rending tales for you today, like the one about the bride, who got tear gassed at her own wedding. |
| 0:25.7 | I sat in the car alone, was holding my wedding dress over my eyes. |
| 0:29.0 | We're like, okay, here we are. None of us can see very well. |
| 0:32.8 | That's all to come on Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Lauren Delgado. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm Patrick Delgado. |
| 0:50.0 | And we got married on November 20th, 2020. |
| 0:52.8 | But not in the way you thought you were going to. |
| 0:57.7 | No, not at all. It was through a window and in a quarantine. |
| 1:04.2 | The COVID pandemic has thrown up all kinds of crazy stories. |
| 1:07.6 | So let's just take some time today to honour a couple of them. |
| 1:12.1 | First up, Lauren and Patrick, based close to Los Angeles, California, |
| 1:18.7 | they did whatever it took to tie the knot last year, despite facing some almighty challenges. Our original guest list was 175 people because we have really big families, and it was just |
| 1:26.4 | going to be a normal party. Ceremony and reception, |
| 1:29.3 | having a good old time. And then the pandemic hit. So our wedding date was in November and we were |
| 1:36.8 | like, oh, this isn't going to last that long. Hopefully we'll be able to have our original plan. |
| 1:43.3 | But then as time kept progressing, the numbers in the |
| 1:47.3 | states just kept going higher and skyrocketing. And so we decided to scale back. We had to |
| 1:52.7 | un-invite our friends. About two months before the wedding, our guest list went down to 40 family |
| 1:59.5 | members. And then I got super sick. Yeah, perhaps I |
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