Wedding business is booming for planners, banquet halls
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times At the start of lockdown last year, Kate Reavey was forced to cancel four weddings. The wedding planner chuckled about that last week, remembering her misfortune back then — because it was really only the start of the madness brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We had so many cancellations. We have clients on their fourth postponement. We have clients who moved [weddings] from 2020 to 2023. It is wild,” said Reavey, who owns Chicago Vintage Weddings in Pilsen. What a difference 14 months has made. The wedding business is booming once again. “That’s an ...