Re-Opening Roadmap’s second step starts Sunday; couples excited for weddings

Now that other lockdowns are on the way out, it’s time to lock down a life partner.

If you’re working on keeping someone in your forever bubble,  A.K.A. getting married, the good news is that gathering sizes go up as of Sunday.

It’s part of the second step of Saskatchewan’s Re-Opening Roadmap. Indoor gatherings are capped at 15 people, but it’s 150 people outdoors.

That’s not the only change, as the following rules are also loosened:

• Retail and personal care services will have no capacity thresholds, but they must maintain an occupancy that allows for physical distancing.
• Restaurants and bars — no table capacity thresholds, but they must maintain two metres of physical distancing or structural barriers between tables.
• Event facilities, casinos, bingo halls, theatres, art galleries, libraries and recreational facilities – can have 150 people maximum. Physical distancing must be maintained and will determine the occupancy of the building. Those venues that serve food must follow restaurant guidelines.
• Youth and adult sports will have all restrictions lifted.

The restrictions easing has many couples finally settling on a date to get married.

Ari Avivi, a Saskatoon wedding commissioner, said couples have been really patient and since the re-opening started he’s been getting a bunch of calls and emails for his services.

“I have a couple who have booked and re-booked four times, and are finally pulling the trigger for the beginning of July,” Avivi said.

“I’m doing a wedding in a convenience store, right in the convenience store in front of the Slurpee machine … They were very specific that it had to happen at the Slurpee machine.”

“Convenience stores seem to have it all, but who knew it was a place to say ‘I do?'”