‘forgotten about’ – planner
more than 95 weddings from this year, that’s 95 wedding dates this year that I can’t sell, all of the cash flow has gone, it’s going to hit me for a couple of years.
“It is a lot of money to not have, we haven’t implemented charges to change dates to next year but some of the phone calls have been heartwrenching. You’ve got people who can’t get married until 2022.
“The conversations have been really difficult because the brides feel forgotten about, I feel forgotten about. through Willington as we got here at 9am and it had come through the gates.
“We couldn’t believe it, you don’t see many abnormal loads around here.”
Craig Whitehurst, the National Grid site engineer, said it arrived ahead of schedule and the load was 73.67ms long.
The vehicle transporting it was 120 tonnes, making the total weight 298 tonnes.
He said: “We’ve had quite a lot of members of the public coming up the road to come to have a look.
“The National Grid did a mail drop to residents letting them know it was coming through this morning.”
The transformer left Goole Docks at 2pm on Friday as it set off on the 76-mile journey to Derbyshire at around 12 mph.
It arrived with a police escort but no roads were closed as a result.
Everybody is saying we are up and running because hospitality and leisure industries are but it’s not the case.
“We have got no sign of when we can get going again.” She added: “It’s not just the wedding planners, you’ve got the wedding singers and DJS who haven’t got any work at the moment either.”
Mrs Shaw’s bridal shop in Alvaston, called The Wedding House, has been able to reopen but the single mum-of-two said that the “sparkle” has gone.