Christmas Wedding Rush Beginning this Week

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26328, 6 December 1946, Page 6

Christmas Wedding Rush Beginning this Week

Well over 100 weddings will take place in Dunedin in the fortnight beginning to-morrow and ending on December 21. Ministers, caterers, florists, photographers, and taxi firms promise to be busier than ever before in coping with the present popularity of matrimony. In the fortnight in question a well-known firm of photographers has no fewer than 83 weddings to photograph, and it has had to refuse other requests for its services. One bride had decided to be married on December 21, but when she found that the photographer in question could not take her wedding pictures on that day she changed all her arrangements and is to be married on the preceding day, when it is possible for the photographer to be present. Bookings for photographs with this firm extend into February, March, and April, and there are even three couples who' have engaged the services of the photographer for December, 1947! Taxi firms report a similar rush of business from wedding parties over the coming few weeks. Bookings already amount to well over 100 in the case of one firm, and, as one of its officials stated yesterday, if there are any other bridal parties requiring taxis in the coming three weeks, it will not be possible for them to get them, and they will have to walk to and from the church. Florists are receiving more orders than they can accept. Fortunately, flowers are plentiful, but florists do not like to take orders; unless they can fulfill them satisfactorily. Consequently, only those who have already placed their orders are likely to have flowers for their weddings this month.