Are you a pandemic bride or groom? Feeling alone, or feeling frustrated with what you’ve had to go through? The new Youtube documentary, The Pandemic Wedding recognizes the challenges, emotions, negative setbacks and positive outcomes of the couples who have had to experience this monumental task first-hand.
“When we set out to document our wedding experience during this global pandemic, it was initially just to have the content for posterity,” admits Koch. “But we soon found ourselves in the company of a lot of other couples who were going through similar situations and so we decided to share their stories and ours.”
Episode one documents Koch and Bernstein’s wedding journey—from the early days of quarantine in March to their unconventional wedding ceremony at Anaheim, California’s Honda Center in the Spring (followed by a Zoom reception!).
But besides having to renegotiate plans, the predicament also forced them to reflect on the definition of marriage and the purpose of a wedding. Bernstein explains, “We don’t need necessarily the big ceremony to actually start doing the work of marriage, which is supporting each other every day, the love and everything else.”
We’ve talked to all of our 2020 couples and scheduled, rescheduled, and rescheduled again in hopes of still making dream wedding days come true, but the most important thing we recognize with every couple (during the year of the pandemic or not) is that the thing we all love more than weddings, is marriages and love. So no matter how you celebrate… big or small, at the barn or in your backyard, we hope you remember what’s important. Your wedding day is about celebrating your relationship and love that you have for your significant other.
