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In today\u2019s world, trying to get married has become... a hot mess. So, to all the COVID brides to have been, grooms and wedding professionals: you\u2019re 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\u2019s keep inspiring each other and celebrate the thing we treasure the most: love.

What\u2019s one more year? That\u2019s a question it took bride Jenna a minute to get comfortable with considering she and her fiance had already been together for eight years when they finally got engaged. But after thinking it over and knowing it was important to wait for a time when she and her fiance Zach could celebrate with their large families over an entire weekend at a \u201crustic nautical\u201d destination wedding in Saint Michaels, Maryland, Jenna made the call last April to move their August 2020 wedding back an entire year so they could stick to their grand plans. A year later, they\u2019re still not sure what their new wedding date will look like or if guests will even be allowed to dance. The only  thing they know for sure is that there will be all the crab and lobster a person could eat. 

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(07:57) - Jenna on when she knew Zach was the one - \u201cI honestly knew right away. I know that's so cheesy but this felt so different from any other relationship I've ever been in, and I was like, \u2018What's happening right now? What is this feeling?\u2019\u201d

(09:02) - On Zach proposing after eight years of dating - \u201cIt became kind of like a joke of like, \u2018Zach, when are you going to propose?\u2019\u201d

(11:38) - The proposal - \u201cWhen I came home, I walked into a candlelit room with a PowerPoint of all the eight years of photos of us, and then at the very end, it said, \u2018Will you marry me?\u2019\u201d

(22:05) - On postponing their wedding early on - \u201cI was like, \u2018I am not losing all of these vendors and it's not getting better.\u2019 And so I switched it and my sister thought it was so early on, \u2018You're being ridiculous.\u2019 But I was right.\u201d

(25:34) - Finding the perfect wedding dress - \u201cI'm definitely not one of those \u2018say yes to the dress\u2019 girls.\u201d

(27:31) - The hardest part of planning a wedding during the pandemic - \u201cThe lack of being excited about it is stressful to me. I wish that I could be excited about it, and I guess as it gets closer I will be. But I am just so emotionally drained about it.\u201d

(28:05) - All of the things that are still unknown - \u201cI can't envision the day without it being like, \u2018Are people coming? Are there masks? Is it going to get canceled? Is it going to be small? Is there going to be dancing?\u2019\u201d

(32:55) - Not feeling like she can talk about moving her...