The chapel may be booked and the dresses all fitted, but if you're planning your wedding, be prepared for an uninvited guest -- the HST.
Beginning July 1, many wedding services will go up in price as the 12-per-cent HST kicks in on services including photography, catering, entertainment, limos and honeymoon airplane tickets.
Wedding planner Barbara Hastings McLeod told CTV News that one client is looking at more than $3,000 extra in tax alone.
"I feel bad for these people. Suddenly they have an increased bill on something they were planning and budgeting on," she said.
"I feel my clients have been cheated."
The opposition NDP is latching on to the HST's wedding-crasher status in its continued fight against the tax.
"My question is to the premier: Will he finally do the right thing and just say ‘I do' and scrap the HST?" opposition MLA Dawn Black asked in the provincial legislature.
Fellow NDP member Harry Lali had a message for Finance Minister Colin Hansen.
"Dis-invite himself from people's weddings and keep his sticky fingers out of the back pockets of wedding couples who are about to go off on their honeymoons," Lali said.
But the Gordon Campbell government is vowing to bring in the HST, despite continued oppostion.
"It's going to be one of the most important things that's happened in the province in the 21st century as we move to build jobs and opportunities for the future," he told reporters.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Jim Beatty
