Desperate couples began booking up wedding venues almost immediately after Boris Johnson announced plans to lift all Covid restrictions by midsummer, it has been claimed.
As soon as the PM finished Monday's big roadmap reveal - which included the intention of scrapping all measures by June 21 - wedding dates started being fixed up.
And now venues are fully booked until 2023, while one wedding planner claims packages were being hiked up by 15 per cent as calls came rolling in.
Under the current lockdown, which will start to be lifted in stages from March 8, wedding ceremonies can only go ahead under exceptional circumstances, and receptions are banned completely.
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