Wedding planners find novel ways to restart businesses

Wedding planners find novel ways to restart businesses

Devanathan.Veerappan@timesgroup.com

Madurai:01.06.2020

Wedding planners in Madurai have come up with special packages suiting the lockdown restrictions pricing them competitively in order to kickstart their businesses after the lull. The two months have been tough for them as people had preferred to conduct marriages at their houses and nearby temples. Live telecast through website and YouTube channels, thermal scanning, hand sanitizers, N95 masks and getting required permissions are the new additions to the package. With the government yet to allow more than 50 people for marriages, packages are kept as low as Rs1.49 lakh inclusive of marriage hall. Wedding planners say that they could bring down package price as expenses towards food, thamboolam, electricity charges and time spent in hall will drastically reduce.

R Senthilkumar of Hello Events said that during lockdown people preferred houses and farm houses to conduct marriage, but now inquiries have started coming in to conduct marriages in halls. “To suit the needs of lockdown restrictions we are offering a couple of packages at Rs 1.49 lakh and Rs 1.99 lakh packages, which including hall, e-invitation, food, photography, videography, hand sanitisers, masks, thermal screening, live telecast and chair arrangement with social distancing,” he said.

“Live telecast was introduced since many friends and relatives could not take part in wedding. Around 4,000 people can watch through our website. We also telecast through Youtube as per requests,” he said.