How COVID has reshaped the wedding and event business in Central Wisconsin
Courtsey The McCartneys Photography
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, Kelsy and Butch McCartney said the impact on their business was slow at first; but soon those impacts were felt strongly as things changed in the wedding business, especially as the state imposed more stringent rules around gatherings to hold the pandemic at bay.Â
The McCartneys, who started their wedding and senior portrait photography business more than ten years ago and opened a location downtown on Jefferson Street roughly five years ago, saw some big changes in the wedding business. âCouples with indoor weddings switched it up to an outdoor plan or postponed it,â Kelsy told City Pages. âHalf the weddings moved to this year.â The McCartneys ended up shooting a lot of weddings in Door County, and numbers started to become limited. âMany scaled back their weddings from 200 guests to more like 50 or less,�