Wedding planning in 2020 has been seriously tricky, but Samantha + Greg’s mountain resort wedding is proof that true love conquers all!

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I love chatting with couples about their weddings, but planning and inquiry calls this year have had a slightly different feel. Conversations that are usually bright, bubbly, and carefree have been tinged with stress and uncertainty as couples face rescheduling, scaling back, or even canceling their celebrations.

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When Samantha and I first connected, she had already moved her wedding venue due to the pandemic - shifting from an indoor reception to an outdoor gathering. She was able to keep her original date by moving to a less traditional venue, a local State Park, but needed help adjusting her plans.

With a month of management package + decor add on, we started to reconfigure her original plans to match the new venue and ever changing rules-regulations-challenges of a 2020 wedding. Things were humming along and plans were nearly finalized, but then in true 2020 fashion, we hit a major snag!

During a routine vendor readiness check four weeks prior to the wedding, I discovered that the State Park the couple had booked was operating under a different set of regulations from wedding venues in the area. These rules would effectively cut the already reduced guest list in half - ouch!

Side note: I love planning weddings in National Parks and State Parks, but they have some unique challenges that the pandemic has intensified. With a bit of tenacity and early communication, we can work through these challenges. If you’re thinking about a park wedding, we should definitely chat!

Now this is where panic would usually set in - revising the guest list, finding a new venue, reconfiguring the vendor team, redesigning the decor and floor plan to match, new timelines all with just weeks to go - that could seriously send anyone into a wedding planning panic. Here’s something pretty to help that anxiety subside.

Panic isn’t really our style at Blondie Events, we prefer to spring into action - so we started pulling every string we could find, got seriously flexible, and had lots of phone calls with the couple both to empathize and replan.

Within a week, Sam + Greg were under contract with a new venue. Two weeks later we had a new design for the decor, and a week after that we were back to finalizing details as usual. Oh heck yeah!

Big bumps in the wedding planning process aren’t super common, but they do happen. Offering a safety net to couples that helps them adapt, think through options, and get as close to their original ideal as possible - yeah, I seriously dig that.

And I seriously dig how beautiful, relaxed and fun Samantha + Greg’s wedding turned out! You can see their love in every detail and smile.