Brides-tobe plan for their special day
CHICO >> Alongside friends and families, brides-to-be headed to Silver Dollar Fairgrounds for a day of wedding planning and shopping.
The semiannual Chico Bridal Show gave roughly 350 future brides a one-stop location for booking services.
“Instead of going around and meeting 10 individual businesses for her caterer, she can come here and taste everything at one site, said Show Coordinator Andrew Coolidge.
Featuring more than 100 exhibitors, including catering, DJs, venues, photo booths, bartending and local gyms, the show essentially offered any service needed for someone’s wedding day.
Coolidge explained that many of these services are essential to weddings in the area because there is a lack of venues.
“You find a lot of people having weddings at ranches or their homes because they can’t find a venue, but they need a lot of other services and have to bring in all these other stuff,” Coolidge said.
Oroville Catherine Beagle attended Sunday’s show with her fiance to start gauging the costs of their October 2020 wedding.
“We got a concept of what the prices are and a ballpark figure of the different services,” Beagle said. “It definitely gave us ideas for stuff we hadn’t thought about
yet.”
The more than 1200 people attending, which made it difficult to walk through aisles, came as no surprise to Beagle.
“I did wonder how many brides could there possibly be in Chico, but I know people are coming from all over the county,” Beagle said.
Coolidge, who managed the Yuba City Bridal Show for 20 years, said he expected a slight increase in attendees because of the year.
“Supposedly 2020 is supposed to be a big year because a lot of the brides are either superstitious about it or just like the fact it’s 2020,” Coolidge said.
“Some have waited a couple of years to get married this year,” Coolidge added.
Owner of The Wedding DJ Company Chris Frankovich said even-numbered years often tend to be larger for booking than odd years.
“It’s somewhat how it plays off the tongue,” Frankovich said.
He also recommends people should perhaps avoid planning a wedding on a certain day in 2020.
“October 10, 2020 is by far the most popular date of the year just because it’s the half of 2020,” Frankovich said.
The next Chico Bridal Show will be held in August at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds.
For more information, visit chicobridalshow.com.