We started the house buying process as well, and I routinely found myself answering emails with “I will try to think about this, I am currently overwhelmed, Thank you!” My senior quote was by the late Erma Bombeck, “If you can’t fix it, laugh at it”. The pandemic worsened, and the stress mounted. It’s hard to get married if you assault your beloved, so instead I hired a wedding planner. As I laid out the options to my fiancé, he dismissed them both and suddenly all of my hours of work were wasted. Our original plan was for 100 guests, which translates to potential thousands of dollars of food. I had put together a presentation of menus and pricing after weeks of back and forth communication with two different caterers, and both had asked for deposits before tastings. Meanwhile, I was working in a hospital where Covid policies changed by the hour, and we all dreaded the news. It’s daunting to try and find vendors with such a delay in communication, and no face to face contact. Immediately I shut down any part of wedding planning that meant going out and about. I took his xray, and then hid in the bathroom at work while I texted my mom and cried, the sucking sobs of a scared little kid. That week, I saw my first Covid patient in the hospital. Ethan and I had plans to go to a Mardi Gras parade after we got back into town, but the timing was off so we headed straight home to Atlanta.Īs of March 2nd, we had had 2 known cases in the state of Georgia. Unbeknownst to me, my family was starting to get worried about my prospects of being let back into the country. Our cruise was from February 2nd through 8th. I remember a patient asking me in January, “Are you worried about the virus?” As everyone in the modern world knows, all hell broke loose. (I’m very proud of that, I feel so clever.) I took about a week just to enjoy the new stage of our relationship, and then purchased tickets to a wedding expo in March of 2020. The most we were able to accomplish at first was a date, 4/3/21. I got engaged while on a cruise, and we hadn’t sprung for the internet package so I had to wait an entire 3 days to get back to land to start thinking.
And instead of taking it upon myself to handle the issues as they arise, I’m trying a new and bold, experimental strategy recommended to me by my friend Peggy.Īt first, it was incredibly difficult to let go of any part of the process. More kindly put, people don’t know what they don’t know.
They especially don’t know what it’s like to sit in the front seat of a minivan with a delicately decorated cake for your mom’s work friend in your lap, doing your best not to even breathe while your mother inches through a right hand turn. They don’t know how much cake feeds 100, or that wedding cake slices are different than normal cake slices. A non-small amount of men in my life can not recognize an engagement ring when they see one. Weddings are about orchestrating the single most stressful day of your life to coincide with declaring your undying love to a man who has no such expectation placed on him. Now, at 29, I understand that weddings are not just about pretty florals and sugared dreams.
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