WEDDINGS can take place indoors in regulated premises like hotels in Wales - with maximum numbers allowed subject to social distancing.

Many people made the difficult decision to postpone their special day due to the pandemic.

The changes to weddings is one of several technical amendments being made to the regulations in Wales to make them easier for people to understand while any major easing of lockdown is on pause for the next four weeks.

Changes include the number of people who can attend a wedding or civil partnership reception or wake, organised by a business in an indoors regulated premise, such as a hotel, will now be determined by the size of the venue and a risk assessment.

Small grassroots music and comedy venues will also be able to operate on the same basis as hospitality venues, and primary school children in the same school contact group or bubble will be able to stay overnight in a residential outdoor education centre.

“Of course we’d like to be able to move fully into alert level one, but things move so quickly here and so fast that it’s just not sensible to be in the prediction business,” Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government covid update,

Pilot programmes of events will continue throughout June and July for theatres, sports venues and other sectors.

Some of these pilot events will be at Theatr Clwyd in Mold.

Asked what the immediate future holds for the sport and the arts in Wales, given the pause in lockdown easing, Mr Drakeford said the Welsh Government has "still decided to move ahead with a pilot programme designed to find new ways to allow more people to returrn to arts venues and sporting and festival events".

Pilot events are still going ahead, he added, "to find new ways to put mitigating measures into place".

"I cannot offer immediate further comfort to those sectors beyond the fact that they can reopen now," he said.

"We are working with the sector in a practical way, piloting ideas so more can become properly viable."

Wales has the lowest coronavirus rates in the UK and the highest vaccination rates for first doses.

Rules in Wales were last relaxed on June 7 and said outdoor events with up to 10,000 people were allowed to resume and other events, such as concerts, football matches and sporting activities, could recommence for up to 4,000 people standing and 10,000 people sitting.

The regulations will be reviewed again on July 15.