Photo by Sarah Bradshaw Photography
With wedding season about to commence, many planners and couples are paying particular attention to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s most recent Covid-19 guidelines, which went into effect May 1. The new order, says Kaitlin Przezdziecki, owner of Cheers Darling Events, has “crushed” some event planners as well as some couples. “The industry and [our] clients are feeling beaten down by the latest adjustment to the mandate,” says Przezdziecki. “We have had multiple clients move [events] out of DC to Maryland, Virginia, and other states in order to salvage some semblance of a wedding, since the mayor has put such strict mandates on events in the city.”