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page 142 X metropolitan weddings X SUMMER/FALL 2020 the send off Planning, replanning and planning again Anyone have – reschedule your entire wedding due to a global pandemic on your 2020 bingo card? The making of this issue has been a challenge. I am sure that you are nodding your head right now thinking "So has planning my wedding!". Everything this year has been a challenge! From buying simple things like toilet paper and hand sanitizer to having to reschedule an entire event...merchants, guests, marriage licences, honeymoon, etc. Some of you are just hoping you get to keep your wedding on the date you scheduled it in the future. I am hoping for that for you as well! Some days the light at the end of the tunnel is bright, others it seems to be a little cloudy. As the world takes baby steps to open back up again, we started to work hard at planning wedding expos for you that will be both safe and fun! I am sure you and I have many of the same concerns! How can I have the wedding (or in my case wedding show), that I have been dreaming of... but make sure that my guests are safe from harm. Metropolitan Weddings has been coordinating our efforts with merchants to come up with fun ideas to help navigate event planning in these times. We have come up with ways to social distance & ideas for virtual weddings for those who would have been traveling. Get connected with our Blog, Instagram and Facebook to hear great ideas on these subjects! Our blog has a new post every Wedding Wednesday. Metropolitan Weddings also launched a podcast this year! New episodes drop each Monday and are FULL of wedding education as we interview vendors so they can give you the inside track to all things wedding! We will all make it through this. Vows will be exchanged, anniversaries will be celebrated and families will be sprouted. In 40 some years your grandchildren will be writing a paper for class and asking you what it was like during 'covid-times.' Boy will you have a story to tell! XmW Send your stories, thoughts or questions to: [email protected] written by X MEg Rallis