How This Pittsburgh Couple Made It Work Despite Covid 19

[Originally at Love in the time of corona: How these Pittsburghers made the most of a pandemic wedding by Rossilynne Culgan]

While some couples are postponing their wedding days, others want to get married now, COVID-19 be damned.

Emma and Jay Kober had one of those unstoppable weddings.

As the bride put it, “I would’ve gotten married in a parking lot if I had to. We just wanted to get married.”

It was far different than the day they imagined, but it was special in its own way.

They traded a packed 200-person wedding for a 10-person wedding with guests spread far apart in the pews. The ceremony moved from Fox Chapel Presbyterian to Parkwood Presbyterian in Hampton Township, closer to the bride’s hometown.

Even though just a fraction of the guests could attend in person (tiny weddings have become a hallmark of the pandemic), more than 100 watched a Facebook Live video of the ceremony. The couple are Pittsburgh-area natives now living in the Boston area, and they didn’t want to ask guests to travel into town.

“I was still able to walk down the aisle and have organ music playing, just no one there to see it,” Emma said. “(The Facebook Live) worked out OK in a weird way. People felt like they were a part of it.”

Plans for a night of dancing at the Renaissance Hotel Downtown were traded for a quiet evening at the bride’s parents’ house with immediate family only.

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Even though the odds were against them, this couple really showed how well things can turn out, even when things don’t go as originally intended. With a little compromise and quick planning this couple was able to have a wedding they will always look back on fondly.