Working with the vendors, however, fell on the couple’s wedding planner Jaclyn Fisher of Two Little Birds Planning.įisher, based in Philadelphia, normally plans 10-15 weddings per year. ”Īnother big stressor was coordinating with their vendors to make sure they could all reconvene together - the venue, the caterers, the florists - on the exact same date. “So we had to say, ‘OK, maybe around this time it’ll be more people,’ but we basically had to wait to send out the final. At that point, the vaccine was just coming out,” Elliott said. “We had to try and predict essentially what was going to happen because when we were planning the third wedding date … only 50 people were allowed in one room at a time and things were starting to get better. It also meant lots of postage: the couple sent out four different RSVP and invitation notices over the course of the pandemic. The constant change of capacity limits turned planning a wedding into a guessing game, trying to determine how many people they could invite and who they would have to nix from the list. At first, they planned to invite 250 people but it was then cut to 112 people, following Pennsylvania’s mandate for event sizing at the time that maxed out at 150 attendees. But the plan remained, like many pandemic wedding couples, to still have their celebration and reception at the John James Audubon Center in Montgomery County, with their final rescheduled date on May 29, 2021.ĭue to capacity restrictions, one of the biggest changes to their wedding plans was how many people they could invite. With all the pushbacks and uncertainty, they decided to get married at their local courthouse in Ohio on May 14, 2020. Their original wedding date was May 2, 2020, then June 24, 2020. But for how long, and which COVID-era wedding traditions will stay or go, remains to be seenĮlliott and Even - who met while in medical school at Jefferson University - got engaged in June 2018. Now, as coronavirus cases in the United States begin to decrease and vaccination rates continue to grow, weddings - as we knew them pre-pandemic - are starting to make a comeback. For engaged couples, it meant putting all their faith into vendors and venues to be amenable, while businesses struggled to find economic lifelines amid a world where hospitality and entertainment were canceled for an undetermined period. The pandemic upended the billion-dollar wedding and events industry, bringing many large-scale celebrations to an abrupt halt. Everything will be fine by June.’ It was not fine by June,” she said with a laugh. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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