After more than a year of lockdowns and social distancing due to the mismanagement of the pandemic by the "former guy", there's s wedding boom in the offing, thanks to President Biden's aggressive vaccination efforts and dramatic reductions in COVID cases. The boom also includes couples that were married during the pandemic, but who were restricted in attendees to their marriage. From the Associated Press:
“'We’ve run out of trucks for some dates this year and that hasn’t happened before,' said Ben Goldberg, co-founder and president of the New York Food Truck Association. 'Our phones have been ringing off the hook with clients looking to have the weddings they had to put off during COVID.'
Also contributing to the rush are couples who went ahead and got hitched during stricter pandemic times with few or no guests and are now on their second go-arounds with larger groups. They’re competing for services with those who had always intended to marry this year."
We hope that the happy brides and grooms remember who took the coronavirus seriously and acted as soon as he was inaugurated to produce enough doses to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans by the Fourth of July: President Joe Biden. Who knows, maybe we'll also see a surge in babies named Joe or Josephine in the coming months.
