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My Big Fat Gay COVID Wedding
My partner and I were supposed to get married this May. Because of travel bans and gathering limitations, we had no choice but to cancel our wedding. We were disheartened by the uncertainty of when we would finally be able to marry. We had already been engaged for a year and a half. It could take that long until it would be safe to launch our wedding again. So, we decided to have a backyard zoom wedding. And it was awesome.
Within a five-day span we had everything organized. We contacted a local commissioner and locked her in. We invited two of our best friends to serve as witnesses (they work from home so had low infection risk). We setup a zoom meeting and invited our entire immediate families. Accompanying the e-vite was a disclaimer that we didn’t really know what we were doing, but we were hopeful it could work. We ran a practice tutorial and it went well, so we figured a zoom wedding was worth a shot.
Before we knew it, we had a wedding planned.
A few days later, it was wedding day. With our dear friends’ help, we used some of our existing wedding decor to spice up our yard. We dressed up in our floral finest while jamming out to fun music. My wonderful sister-in-law even had a bottle of champagne delivered that morning to our door. Naturally, we made mimosas, played games, and patiently awaited the arrival of the wedding commissioner.
