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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.

The house can wait and the business stuff can be figured out later, but the memories? That\\u2019s what bride Erin and her fiance Kory decided was most important to them. When Erin sat down with host Emily Lewis to trade wedding stories, she said she had to do a lot of soul searching to figure out what she really wanted, and in the end, it was the big wedding with a large guest list. So the couple decided to push their wedding date back a fourth and final time to August 2022, three and a half years after the couple got engaged and two years after their original wedding date, to a time when they hope gathering and celebrating in large groups will feel safe again. 

Jump straight into:

(07:41) - Erin and Kory\\u2019s proposal story - \\u201cSo we walk over to the Palace of Fine Arts and as we walk in, I\'m hearing music, like a string quartet playing, and I start kind of singing along. I\'m like, \\u2018Oh, I know this song.\\u2019\\u201d

(11:48) - On finding a venue early on - \\u201cI actually only really looked at one venue, the Bel-Air Bay Club, in the Palisades, and I just fell in love with it.\\u201d

(12:52) - How Erin reacted to shelter-in place orders due to COVID - \\u201cI\'m like, \\u2018Oh God, Oh God, this is not good. I need a backup plan.\\u2019\\u201d

(15:29) - Moving their wedding date back a second time - \\u201cI started to go through this process again, reach out to the venue, find out if there are any backup dates, and then at that time they didn\'t have anything for the rest of 2021.\\u201d

(21:49) - Deciding to wait another year to have her dream wedding - \\u201cI don\'t know if it\'s an unpopular opinion or what, maybe it\'s not practical and maybe it\'s just like indulgent. I don\'t know, but it\'s what I want.\\u201d

(24:10) - On having to find new vendors for their 4th wedding date - \\u201cI need to do a new hair and makeup trial anyway, because I\'ll be a whole different person three years later. Probably need a lot more help by then.\\u201d

(25:18) - Being resilient after moving her wedding four times - \\u201cI really hardly cried about it. I was just very matter of fact, like, this is what it is. This is what we do.\\u201d

(32:22) - Trying to brighten other COVID couple\\u2019s day - \\u201cSo what I\'m doing in my area is offering any COVID brides and grooms discounts on Invisalign, whitening, braces, whatever they want to get them ready for the wedding.\\u201d

Resources

Follow Erin on Instagram 

Book dental treatments with Walker Orthodontics 

Book the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades

Listen to Emily\\u2019s interview with Wedding Planner Jane Gerwin

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