Struggling wedding and event companies say British Columbia’s current COVID-19 rules don’t add up, and are calling on the province to allow indoor wedding receptions with safety plans in place. Paige Petriw, owner of Spotlight Events, wrote an open letter to the B.C. government that highlighted how the $1.2 billion wedding event industry is being ignored and denied funding support. With wedding event industry revenues plunging 70–90 percent since March 2020, Petriw says some operators in B.C. now face bankruptcy or have already sold their homes to survive. “When weddings and events are shut down, the impact on our industry extends 6-12 months minimum beyond the lockdown period,” she said in the letter. “We will not survive one more shutdown.” Under current provincial health orders, indoor venues like restaurants and hockey stadiums are allowed to operate at 50 percent capacity, while indoor organized events such as weddings and funerals are not. “It’s extremely …