No, we are eloping!
There are several reasons why we are eloping! Given the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are not interested expending energy into planning a wedding that could potentially be cancelled. Additionally, as much as we absolutely love our huge blended family, getting everybody into the same place at the same time sounds stressful and expensive, for you and for us.
Even if Covid-19 was “over,” we would still prefer eloping.
We appreciate your enthusiasm and your support! However, we will not be accepting financial contributions for this event. Even if we had all the money in the world, we would still prefer eloping.
Oh heavens, no! We feel uncomfortable asking for gifts, especially for an event that you will not be attending.
Thank you! That is so incredibly kind and generous of you! Thank you for thinking of us! I will be setting up a registry that you can find here, on this website.
We are looking to make a big move sooner rather than later, and we are uninterested in hauling more things than we already have. We do not have all of the details yet, so we do not want to plan for things that we may not have space for.
No, though we admire your eagerness to celebrate us! We both work in the events industry and we don’t want to spend time on things that feel like work. And as stated before, given the uncertain climate of the world, we don’t want to add in the stress of having everyone involved cross their fingers.
We think you are just the sweetest! If we really wanted to celebrate in large groups we would, but we do not want to.
Nothing! We are just very private people and want our special day to be focused on each other. We truly love and cherish you!
These are great questions, thank you for asking! This will grow over time, as we keep you updated here. As we are eloping and don’t have anything planned, we don’t have much to put up here just yet. If you know us, you will know that we are not photo people. But do not worry, we will have photos, we just don’t have those details yet.
You are correct! The date is special to us so we would like to have it!
We have hired the fabulous Erika Hernandez, adventure wedding extraordinaire, to help us handle pretty much everything. So really, Erika is making it work for us!
We are getting married this year because we are ready! While the courthouse is kind of our dream, we’ve always wanted to do something with friends. It is easier to get all the legal papers done here, in the US, rather than abroad.
Honestly, the stars aligned for us on this one. We were looking around and several vendors had “bucket list pricing” so we could still “shop around.” This made it more affordable to do a small event abroad than stateside. We were supposed to go to Iceland in March/ April of 2020 and that got canned about a week prior, so we still have all of this hyped up energy to go to that region, so naturally, we hopped on board. We love winter, and why not Winter? Also, the “off season” allows us more space for ourselves. We wanted to make sure that we were Covid Clear! Covid closures forced everything to be pushed back, so vendors are already over booked and prices are higher. We wanted to avoid that!
We can’t book things yet because it is too far out! Erika will be proposing dates/ locations/ activities to us soon and we will be keeping you updated! For this event, we really have to be mindful of the amount of daylight and usual weather patterns. Which we think is super cool! It’s not like we aren’t ones to shy away from a strong pros and cons list!
We don’t like Covid either. Roughly this time last year, we were looking at two weeks inside and then look at where we are right now. We aren’t here to play around with our hopes, time, and money. We would rather plan a Covid Safe event and then be vaccinated and the world going on as nothing happened, than having to be devastated and have to change up the plan last minute. We’ve all made plans that had to be cancelled for some reason or another, and I think we can pretty much all agree it sucks. We don’t want to look back at this and think about how hard Covid made our special days or how different it could have/ would have been. That’s just not us. Life and love goes on, and so will we, in a Covid Safe way.