A COVID Wedding: Adam and Amber

Tell us a little bit about your story. When did you get married? How many people attended?

Our story is dumb luck. We had planned a destination wedding in Los Cabo this past April with 70 of our closest family and friends. We decided to do the church portion in February, well before any widespread mention of the pandemic, solely so we wouldn’t have to get our marriage license translated, and boy, are we glad that we did.

Any innovative virtual ways that you incorporated the guests that you wanted to have in-person at the wedding?

The use of video and FaceTime in particular has helped us to communicate updates with our guests in a more personal way than email or a website ever could. It’s particularly important given that we’re talking about not just our guests’ money and time, but safety as well. These are messages we prefer to deliver ‘face to face’.

What tips do you have to share to those couples who are planning on getting married during COVID?

Regardless of whether the big day is what you envisioned or not, the end goal of marrying your partner is intact. Besides, there is no timeline on a lifelong celebration. 💕

Do what’s right for you. We’ve heard of many other couples expediting for great reasons like a family member’s health, and others who are waiting to get the wedding they always dreamed of. In our opinions, the only bad choices are the ones that put us in danger.

Where are the two of you planning on taking your honeymoon after things get back to ‘normal?’

Can we just say how excited we were to discuss travel in general right now?!

We’ve talked about everywhere from Bora Bora to Japan and Maldives. We cannot wait to start researching these further once we’re past all this. 🧳👀

What would you recommend couples do if they’d like to have their wedding during a pandemic? Wait it out? Postpone?

We were supposed to get married in Los Cabos in April 2020. We’ve pushed it a year to April 2021, with the understanding that we’ll re-assess once we have more information. Our advice: do the best with the information you have; this is likely the first of many seemingly massive challenges you and your partner get to tackle, together.

In what ways has having your wedding during this time brought you closer?

Well quite literally going into lockdown and seeing no one else for the first two months of marriage brought us incredibly close!

It’s helped us also shed the light on other aspects of ourselves that we hadn’t explored together: how can we learn new skills or hobbies when our regular ones aren’t options? How can we take care of our mental health together? How can we get inventive with date nights since our options are more limited than ever before?

It’s not always hunky dorey; it’s a very different living situation. During regularly scheduled 2020, we would’ve been so caught up with work, travel, social lives, etc. whereas now we have a daily opportunity to spend quality time together. Count your blessings, even when they’re blessings in disguise :).