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Pandemic pivot HOW SEA TO SKY WEDDING VENDORS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT COUPLES IN 2021 AND BEYOND
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by: ALYSSA NOEL
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hile COVID-19 has decimated much of B.C.’s wedding industry over the last year, there’s one trend that’s emerged as a result: epic elopements. Whether couples chose a spot tucked away in the lush, green rain forests of Squamish, took a chopper to a remote
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Whistler mountain top, snowmobiled to a Pemberton ice cave, adventure—and love— still won the day. Officiating many of those stunning nuptials was Jeremy Postal, who you will find on the internet as The Whistler Wedding Pastor. “My experience has been a little different from other vendors in the sense that pretty
much every other vendor is expendable to a wedding—except the officiant,” he said. “They still need that core group of vendors: photography, somewhere to do the wedding, whoever is going to legalize it.” While Postal did see an initial drop off when the pandemic first hit in spring 2020, by the end of the year, the number of weddings he attended was about the same as
