The Plan Changed Every Day with Bride Rachel

Bride to Have Been

In today’s world, trying to get married has become... a hot mess. So, to all the COVID brides to have been, grooms and wedding professionals: you’re not alone. Welcome to Bride To Have Been, a StudioPod original podcast hosted by Emily Lewis, with the purpose of building a community by sharing the reality of this new normal in the wedding industry. Let’s keep inspiring each other and celebrate the thing we treasure the most: love.

Like many brides, Rachel thought she wanted a big wedding with all the works. She and her fiance Scott even booked a wedding venue that could accommodate 250 guests just before COVID hit in early 2020. But in the thick of the global pandemic with nine months left before their wedding date, the couple decided to switch up their grand plans for a micro wedding with just six of their family members and have opted to plan for a bigger celebration sometime in the future. Even then, the couple is planning to scale back their plans to around just 80 guests once the pandemic has finally blown over. As Rachel points out to host Emily Lewis, did she really need her mother’s tennis friends at her wedding? No.

Jump straight into:

(05:48) - On Rachel expecting a proposal from Scott - “I put a couple of puzzle pieces together and figured out that today was the day.”

(08:58) - Rachel realizing she didn’t need a big wedding after COVID - “I thought I wanted a big grand wedding so we booked a 250-person wedding in this expensive catering hall, but now that it's turned into what it is, I'm actually much happier.”

(10:08) - Scaling down the wedding - “Obviously I want my family and my good friends there, but do I need my mom's tennis friends? No.”

(19:25) - Rachel’s outlook on life in quarantine - “Everybody got screwed over in one way or another. This is just our way.”

(20:59) - The chaos of planning a wedding during COVID - “The plan changed every day. We're done changing it. This is what we're doing.”

(24:54) - Rachel’s takeaway from the past year - “I think everybody should take time when they first get engaged to sit down and think about it for real before making any moves.”

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