We can’t believe that Isabelle and Galen’s wedding is in just a little over a week! It’s probably been one of the stranger wedding planning experiences, to say the lest - starting out strong, putting everything on hold, cautiously making plans and then… bam! Once it felt like we could move forward with a plan, it’s been a whirlwind of decision-making and online ordering.
Isabelle did a wedding planning update back in April (during the cautiously optimistic phase) and we also wrote a post with our best COVID-wedding planning advice, which had our best ideas of what we were planning to do and would recommend. Overall we think we did a pretty good job predicting based on where things are now! We thought it would be fun to check in with progress and just a few fun updates for you today :)
So what scenario are we going forward with?
Plan A! (ok, well actually Plan A would be a normal wedding with no pandemic, but usually you don’t have to list out a whole series of contingency plans…) All things considered, this is pretty good. In our planning advice post, our first option was to be able to do a 50-person ceremony this year (while streaming it for the other guests), outside with everyone having enough space. We’ll also get to have a fun picnic style dinner where everyone gets their own basket. We’re lucky that we originally picked an outdoor venue where this whole plan adapts pretty easily and based on recent reports, we feel pretty good that everyone can safely gather outside. Everything with our contract changed, but the plan is to do a big reception next year with all our friends and family!
What about the fun pre-wedding pampering?
Thanks to everyone doing their part #wearamask and diligent small business owners making sure everyone is safe, we’ve been able to schedule some of the fun things like hair, makeup, nails and sugaring (not sure if that counts as fun?). We know it’s just some small parts of the whole experience, but it really helps to make this time feel more special.
But did you pick out a wine?!
Why yes, yes we did. Isabelle and Galen grabbed a selection of wine from Costco since they are allowed to bring their own and we had a fun family wine tasting night. Honestly, doing something ‘normal’ felt good. There were a variety of incompatible ranking systems and possibly too many spreadsheets, but they picked some winners!
Our best advice: if you can, try to still do some of the fun things you were looking forward to and enjoy this time, even when there is so much that’s unpredictable and scary. Everyone is grateful for a little happiness right now :)
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