Wedding-dance-floor enthusiasts, fear not if the local event planners we talked to are any indication, 2021 and 2022 will be extra busy years for jumping and yelling “Shout” with your tie securely fastened around your head. While some couples moved ahead with elopements and downsized backyard ceremonies this year, the majority of clients chose to delay their nuptials (or at least the party portion) in order to have their big day still be, well, big.
Lilli Black, CEO of Sweetly Paired, says her company usually does about 75 weddings per year; in 2020, she postponed about 60 events. As a result, Sweetly Paired now has around 150 celebrations on the books for 2021. But that doesn’t mean they’ll all be exactly the same as if this past year had never happened. “A lot of the feels 2020 has given us are going to influence how weddings are done,” Black says. Here, a handful of ways planners think this extraordinary time may affect how Coloradans get hitched going forward.