FAQs

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Are you going to have a wedding celebration at some point?

Answer

Yes, that's our plan! We would like to have a celebration with you, our beloved guests, once it's safe to do so. We're hoping to have our wedding celebration in 2021 in Banning, CA as originally planned, but we'll have to wait and see how COVID containment goes over the next several months.

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Will you contact us once you figure out your plans for 2021?

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Absolutely! We will send out either Save-the-Dates or formal invitations once we finalize our plans. Again, these will revolve around safety and COVID containment, etc.

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Allie, did you change your last name?

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Nope, not yet! I'm waiting until our wedding celebration to do that, if I decide to go that route. I'm still considering all options, including hyphenating.

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So, you already got married. What's going to be different or special about the wedding celebration?

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First of all, being around people that we love is going to be SO MUCH FUN! We've all kind of gone stir-crazy due to COVID, so it'll be great to see people that we haven't seen in forever, AND it will be great to celebrate our marriage with loved ones. Secondly, Allie's last name change. If she decides to change her name, she'll do that as a function of this celebration. Thirdly, exchanging of our actual wedding bands. We exchanged silicone wedding bands as a token of our love when we exchanged our vows, but we want to exchange our actual bands on our special day with you all. Finally, we are thinking that the ceremony will occur in the summer, and it will hopefully be around our 1 year wedding anniversary, so we'd like to use the celebration as a one year vow renewal with all of you present!

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Are you expecting any wedding gifts now?

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Not at all! First off, we felt very strongly from the beginning that we don't want anyone to go out of their way to give us gifts in the first place. We understand that everyone is in varying financial situations, especially due to COVID, and we would rather you all take care of yourselves first. We also have a home full of things already, so we don't really need more stuff! There are no obligations for gifts now or in the future. However, if you would like to give us gifts, we will make a registry available once we know more about our celebration next year.

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So wait, you took those pictures yourself??

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Yes! Allie here: as many of you know, I have a love of nature photography and I wanted to challenge myself to take our wedding photos myself. I researched some common poses, and set up timers & continuous shooting on my camera. It can only capture 10 shots at a time, so it was a lot of me telling David where to stand, me pressing the shutter button, and running into the shot, haha! Honestly, the photos turned out better than I thought they would. Not perfect (I forgot to take my glasses off for most of them), and Baxter hated the flash and clicking so he was barking the whole time, but it was an awesome experience.

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Did you record your vow exchange?

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We did, but we're not sure that we want to make that publicly available. It was a special moment, doing that ourselves, standing under a beautiful tree in an open field in White Ranch Park, and we might want to keep that to ourselves.