Planning for a Pandemic: The Event Industry’s Dilemma

RUKSANA HUSSAIN

When the pandemic was first declared in March 2020, it sent the world spiraling. All industries and sectors were impacted and suffered, including the event planning world. What would have been a busy season of corporate events and big weddings was reduced to a state of no activity. Black event planning professionals were already working on improving representation and inclusion within the industry in the United States, and the pandemic now added a new set of concerns. DIVERSIFYING EFFORTS For Andrew Roby, award-winning Washington, D.C.–based event and wedding planner and the founder and CEO of Andrew Roby Events (@andrewrobyevents), the wedding side of his event planning business crumbled. “We shifted to doing micro weddings and did about 20 during 2020,” he shares. “In 2019, we brought in over a million…

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Cuisine Noir (Digital) - 1 Issue, Resilience - Fall 2021

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