This is a coronavirus story with no tragic losses, no major life changes and no grim endings; rather, this is a coronavirus story about a series of unfortunate events leading to a pleasant end. Instead of getting married in the breezy and cool months of spring, these couples will settle for the hot Texas months of summer – the list of changes goes on.
And yet, the couples have all managed to find the positive outcomes of their plan changes while going through something akin to the five stages of grief. These brides and grooms have spent months writing out a guest list, matching the perfect concoction of colors, picking the gown to start off a new chapter, and crying when one minor detail in the wedding goes awry. Really, there are hundreds of details that move the gears of this one momentous day, and then suddenly all the gears shifted.
The three couples who spoke to the Hays Free Press and News-Dispatch have all come to terms about their wedding day changes and have adjusted to the new restrictions, but getting to this moment took a lot of planning and an emotional toll.
