I am an 8/8 bride with less than a month to go until i get to marry the love of my life. last year after going back and forth, we ultimately decided to have a small micro wedding with just our parents and our sons present. the idea was to be a little more frugal worth the wedding so we would splurge a bit on our honeymoon. my parents offered to keep our boys for 10 days (8/16- 8/25) so we could go to the hard rock resort in Cancun. it took me a while to get over the idea of a big wedding but once i realized i could still plan and have the wedding experience, i got really excited again. then COVID hit and everything was up in the air. i felt mostly relief that we had already informed family and friends that we were having super small ceremony and that i didnt have to go through the process of cutting the list, postponing etc all while dealing with the anxiety of da rona.
then i realized...we probably won't be going to Cancun. that's ok! fiancé and i talked about road tripping to memphis or toronto instead. we even considered renting a camper. then things got worse and traveling out of state didnt seem like a good idea anymore. that's ok! well stay local and honeymoon at our wedding place (a waterfront bnb). fiancé is a college professor so we have a pretty small window to schedule any kind of vacation. we got word that his college would be bumping up the start of the semester so that they could close campus after the students leave for thanksgiving break. meaning the semester would now start 8/24. that's ok! well honeymoon for 6/7 days instead of 10. well now they've schedule all the pre-semester meetings starting 8/14 and I'm just like deflated now.
i know the honeymoon isn't an absolute must and i should be happy enough that we can still get married given ll that's going on. we've been together over 15 years, our kids are 9 and 4 so its been a while since we really got to do anything just us two for an extended period of time and we were both really looking forward to a nice long kid free trip to celebrate and bask in our love.
le sigh.
