COVID-19 Took Over My Wedding & I’m No Longer Angry

Two months away from the big day is when I realized it wasn’t going to happen. The day I had been planning for and looking forward to for nearly two years was going to have to wait.

Photo by: Jeff Sampson Photography

I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t upset and angry, because I was feeling every negative emotion there is. As I started to re-plan everything, I realized how understanding all of the vendors are about the situation and over the past two weeks my mindset shifted.

Although I had to postpone my original plans to later this year, Nick and I decided to still have a small, intimate ceremony on May 23, 2020. I will be marrying my best friend in less than a month, and we get to celebrate our love twice in one year (hopefully).

A lot of my married friends say things like, “I would give anything to relive my wedding day”, and I guess in a sense I’m lucky enough to have that luxury. I’m not glad things turned out this way, but I’m no longer mad about it.

Photo by: Jeff Sampson Photography

Surprisingly, I wasn’t angry or upset when we received the expected call that we needed to reschedule our honeymoon in St. Lucia. I knew we were still going to take time for ourselves after we officially got married in May, so I started searching for alternative ideas.

After the intimate ceremony, Nick and I will be heading to the Black Hills where we plan to spend our first week of marriage in a secluded cabin surrounded by nature. We plan to explore trails, have picnics, and enjoy nightly campfires.

The quote I live by is, “everything happens for a reason” and that’s what I tell myself to help keep a positive attitude through all of this. Instead of dwelling on what should have been, I’m choosing to look at it as a very unique situation that I can look back on later in life and think ‘wow, that was a crazy time, but we made the most of it.’

After all, at the end of the day on May 23, I’ll be able to look at Nick and call him my husband. And that’s all I could ask for.

Positive vibes always,

M + M