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  6. Covid: Wedding cake maker loses £37,000 due to pandemic

    Gabriella Grace, who makes wedding cakes, says a further delay to lockdown easing is heartbreaking for her business.

    Based in Redcar, Ms Grace was on track to make 53 wedding cakes last year but only made three.

    She had just given up a part-time job to start her business when the first lockdown happened and says she has lost about £37,000 of income since then because of the pandemic.

    If the lifting of restrictions is pushed back, the UK Weddings Taskforce - an industry group - estimates that 50,000 weddings planned in the four weeks from 21 June could be cancelled, with the industry losing £325m for every week of delay.

    With couples likely having to re-arrange their wedding dates, Ms Grace said she was now struggling to fit in future bookings: "I don't have the luxury of postponing and postponing again because there's only one of me, and I may have a booking for the new date," she said.

    "One of my couples has postponed four times, so in normal times that could've been four lots of income but it's only one."

    Gabriella Grace and one of her wedding cakes
    Copyright: Gabriella Grace Cakes
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