Local Couple Makes the Best Of Their Big Day

[ Originally at Local Couple Adapts Wedding Plans Due To Coronavirus Pandemic, Makes The Best Of Their Big Day by John Shumway] 

MOON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — The pandemic has impacted everything from restaurants to stores, to birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, and weddings.

For Kristin Ogden and Josh Hutchinson, the latest COVID-19 restrictions kicked in on Saturday, the day they were to be married.

“We got engaged on November 30, 2019,” says Kristin, “We picked our date, pretty much immediately, I think we booked our venue on like the fifth of December maybe. I had been asked, starting in March, whether we were going to be rescheduling. And at that point, I said, December will be a totally different time. I mean, I think that everything will be much, much better by then.”

But then came the November surge, “I actually had three of my bridesmaids back out of the wedding, a week before the RSVP’s were due. And so I started contacting everyone, I thought, you know what, maybe I should call everybody.”

She says it was agonizing, “We were nervous, especially because we had people like grandparents coming in to town and, and were gonna be there. And we were nervous about that. After we made all these calls, we ended up having about 90 people that agreed that they would be there.”

Then two days before the big day, they listened as Governor Wolf announced the new restrictions. “It was just gut wrenching at that point,” Kristin says.

But then came an offer from the Grand Concourse, their rehearsal dinner site, to host the wedding on Friday before the new restrictions went into effect. “All of our vendors were available for Friday, we went down we looked at it. And unfortunately, the room was just too small, it would have just been too crammed. So we just put the kibosh on all of that. And we thought, let’s do something small and intimate.”

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It’s always so inspiring to hear a story like this. It just goes to show that no matter the circumstances, the beauty of love shines through even the most trying times. Things don’t always go according to plan, but when you’re meant to be together, they always turn out ok.