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FEATURE
Planning a wedding
in the midst of a pandemic
By Kelsie Howard
For months we have been looking forward to “The Date”, May 30, 2020. We settled on
this date the day he proposed. You see… I am a planner, and through all of my carefully
calculated plans I decided that May 30, 2020, would be absolutely perfect. I had the entire
wedding planned, vendors secured, and details planned out in a month. I wanted to go
ahead and get all of the planning out of the way so that the last couple of months before
the wedding we could relax and it would be smooth sailing. I never would have dreamed
in a million years that this is the storm we’d find ourselves in two months before our
wedding. Even all of my carefully calculated plans could have never accounted for this.
We’ve been counting down the days to our
wedding since Justin proposed on October
19, 2019, and I remember being so excited
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when we finally got to double digits. After
six years of knowing one another, we were
thrilled to finally be getting so close to our
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