Intimate Backyard Wedding in Virginia | Alison and Stephen
Update: This wedding was featured as the homepage video on Love Stories TV and on What If We Elope.
Thank you for visiting our blog, we are excited to share the inspirational story of one of our couples. Enjoy!
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Originally, Alison and Stephen planned a big Italian wedding. Due to coronavirus, they had to cancel their wedding.
They decided to get married anyway and had an intimate wedding at the home of Stephen’s parents.
The group was small but the love and support for this couple is enormous.
From the couple:
We had spent roughly 10 months planning our wedding and while we briefly considered postponing in order to celebrate with everyone, we were ready to be married (and wrap the planning process!).
After consulting with our vendors and parents, we decided to cancel our reception and planned for a smaller, intimate ceremony in Stephen’s parents’ backyard with our families on our original (as scheduled) wedding day, March 28.
We were ready to be married, even if just a ceremony for the two of us plus our Officiant (our friend, Cara). Luckily, with our families being local, we were able to pull off both – a beautiful backyard ceremony followed by a reception (8-person family dinner).
While it was certainly ‘different’ not celebrating with our entire crew, there was no absence of love — our families and friends compiled video clips of them sending well-wishes which we were able to view during dessert (carrot cake for the groom and Texas Donuts for the bride).
My advice to couples that are planning their weddings; keep a spreadsheet or Google Sheet that you can share with your Partner to track/delegate wedding tasks.
Get ahead of as much of the party planning as you can so you can enjoy your time being engaged! Stick to your vision/budget and do what is best for you as a couple!
Alison and Stephen hope that their wedding will be an encouragement to all the couples.
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