
My pandemic wedding story: three postponements and a fresh perspective
CNN
Soon after Dr. Aliza Norwood began planning her May 2020 wedding, the Covid-19 lockdown began. She writes that she was initially optimistic about the second half of 2020, but as the months wore on and the death toll climbed, her wedding ranked low on a long list of priorities.
Dan had proposed to me in a beautiful palm tree forest in Chile in December 2019. We spent the rest of the day playing with alpacas at a farm outside of Santiago. We wanted to start a family quickly and planned to get married in five months, at the risk of giving people in the wedding industry whiplash. Feeling the time pressure, as soon as we came back to Texas, I frantically created spreadsheets, joined lines of jostling women at a bridal swap-meet (aka "expo"), and bought a lot of cheap, sparkly jewelry for the bachelorette party.
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