Anyone wanting to get married or celebrate graduation would have found inspiration at the Cariboo Wedding and Grad Show held Saturday, Oct. 5 at Thompson Rivers University Williams Lake Campus.
Businesses geared toward weddings and graduation, or other types of events, lined the gymnasium with vendors ready to discuss tent rentals, wedding venues, photography, DJ services, activities such as bouncy castles or mini golf, dress rentals, beauty treatments, wine and dress design to cheesecakes, Charcuterie and gourmet stuffed cookies.
"It's been excellent - so busy," said organizer Kristen Blackwood, owner of Blackwood Beauty Studio in Williams Lake. "There were 60 people lined up outside before we opened."
Vendors attended from Fort St. James, Quesnel and 100 Mile in addition to many from the Williams Lake area.
"We started planning in January," she said.
There hadn't been a wedding and grad show since 2019, and this time around Blackwood felt it was much easier to set up compared to then.
"I had staff this time and it went pretty smooth."
The Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin participated with a display at the front entrance featuring two vintage wedding dresses and photographs.
One was for Huizenga nuptial from the early 1900s donated to the museum by the couple's granddaughter Kathryn Gooding with a photograph of the couple taken by W.R. Banks Photography, 1895 to 1930.
The second dress was from the 1930s that was worn by Anne Stevenson (Mackenzie) who married Douglas Stevenson in May 1932.
When the Tribune toured the show, Evan Fuller of Riske Creek was performing and several people were also enjoying food available outside from different food trucks.
