Marriage is precious in life, and holding a perfect wedding is the wish of many couples.
However, due to the indefinite impact of the new crown epidemic, the fifth wave of the Omicron variant virus is coming on fiercely. The government is urgently tightening epidemic prevention measures, causing many newcomers to be confused.
A new couple originally planned to hold a wedding banquet next week, but unexpectedly it was postponed repeatedly, saying bluntly: "The date is changed until the heart is tired."
There are also wedding shop managers who are expected to lose about 300,000 yuan in business due to the annual wedding fair.
Ms. Liu, who had registered for marriage in the middle of last year, was originally scheduled to hold a wedding banquet next Thursday (13th). She did not know that the government suddenly announced on Wednesday (5th) that it would tighten epidemic prevention measures in response to the fifth wave of Omicron epidemic. From Friday (7th) Dinner in the evening market was banned from midnight. Many listed premises, including bars, theaters, event venues and party rooms, were all closed for at least 14 days. As a result, she had to postpone the wedding banquet.
It turned out that this was the second postponed wedding banquet for Miss Liu. She said that the wedding was prepared for a year and was held on November 11 last year. Her restaurant also closed, so she had to find another restaurant and set a date for January 13 this year. Unexpectedly, the wedding banquet fell apart again.
For the wedding banquet date to be changed again and again, the couple expressed helplessness.
Ms. Liu complained that the wedding banquet was originally held for 10 seats, but now she has to notify her relatives and friends of the postponement one by one.
Ms. Liu also stated that she had paid a local film and photography company at the end of the previous year to arrange a wedding photo shoot in Taiwan in April last year. Unfortunately, the local government "closed customs" in March of the same year, and the wedding photo journey has been unable to start. .
She pointedly pointed out that all marriage arrangements have become time-consuming and costly due to the impact of the epidemic.
She also criticized the government's anti-epidemic measures for many errors and omissions, including exempting crew members from quarantine, allowing the virus to flow into the community.
In addition, the shops that specialize in wedding business in Prince Jindu Mall suffered heavy losses due to the sudden tightening of epidemic prevention measures by the government.
One of the shops provides one-stop wedding services, including booking floats, renting wedding dresses and photography. The person in charge, Miss Huang, said that the wedding fair held in Kowloon Bay on the weekend was forced to fail, and her shop is expected to lose six digits. A rough estimate of business is at least about 200,000 to 300,000 yuan.
Ms. Huang said that many new couples now take a wait-and-see attitude and tend to "carefully" the wedding. Fewer people choose to put wine or rent dresses to make wedding banquets simple.
She pointed out that an average of about 50,000 couples in Hong Kong get married each year, and the wedding business has dropped significantly under the epidemic. The government has suddenly tightened epidemic prevention measures this time, disrupting the plans of many new couples, and many new couples hosting wedding banquets this week have been in succession. Cancel the arrangement or switch to a luncheon.
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