Planning A Wedding in the Midst of A Pandemic

Mar 26

I’ll admit, continuing with the process of planning our wedding in light of recent events has been all out strange.

Working in the wedding industry and seeing the first-hand impacts this pandemic has brought on our clients and our business, while supporting sweet friends as they make the decision to postpone, has left me feeling a strange combination of hesitation and guilt and, truthfully, somewhat paralyzed in moving along with this process.

Do I send my edits to Allison on the invitation suite?

Will our paper supplier – or printer for that matter – be open and operating to send them when the time comes?

Is it appropriate to ask when we should be rescheduling our tastings?

I could go on.

But all of these questions pale in comparison to…

Should we postpone?

Can we have a ceremony with just our closest friends and family?

Are we being socially irresponsible by inviting them to join us?

Is it selfish to want them there?

Will we get any of our deposits back?

These and so many others that are running through the minds of those immediately impacted.

Our wedding is September 5. I hope and pray that we will be able to move forward with our celebration as planned, but as we all know, nobody can be 100% certain of anything right now.

What I do know is this – our clients who were planning to be married last weekend had to postpone their wedding. The days leading up to that decision consisted of multiple iterations of a scaled-back version of their original plan. When circumstances of the pandemic escalated and the decision was made to postpone altogether, the RRE team managed to reschedule the entire event – including securing the availability of all existing vendors – in a day. One day. That is remarkable and further proof of the immeasurable value of a full-service wedding planning team to get you through the worst-case scenario no one could have ever imagined.

I know that I have the support of this same team - that continues to operate a business with integrity and preserve the process for their clients with utmost priority.

I know that if, God forbid, this pandemic persists, we will together figure out a way forward.

I know that I am blessed to have family and friends who will stand by me in whatever decisions may need to be made.

Most importantly, I know that I have the love of my best friend. I know that we will be married. And I know that we will have a beautiful celebration – whether or not that happens September 5 or later.

#LoveIsNotCancelled

XO,

Maddie

Want to read more of the Maddie Gets Married Series? Follow along each week:

Week 1: The Proposal

Week 2: Engaged, Now What?

Week 3: Preparing for Our Creative Session

Week 4: My Biggest Takeaway from Our Creative Session

Week 5: Why We Chose Our Photographer

Week 6: When Decisions Get Hard

Week 7: Nate’s First Visit to the Merrimon-Wynne House

Week 8: Save the Date!