Local couples deal with canceling wedding plans due to COVID-19

Local couples deal with canceling wedding plans due to COVID-19

Thousands of brides and grooms dreaming of a spring wedding in 2020 have had to change their plans.

Dreams because of coronavirus.

News 18's anna darling talked local couples about what it was like having to cancel their plans.

"it was very stressful" amber and zechariah hockenbary met while working at pappy's sweet shop at purdue.

And after a year together they got engaged on the pedestrian bridge over the wabash river.

"i always wanted an outdoor wedding.

So we were going to have it outdoors, in the spring, it was set up to be so perfect" but then the worldwide pandemic struck home.

"i was already stressed before with the wedding planning and when all this started happening it didn't really help much" so they canceled their dream wedding, and decided to have a courthouse wedding instead.

"the hardest part of it was they gave us a list of judges and said call all these judges and see who is willing to do this because of the virus" after going down the list, magistrate dan moore agreed.

And they were married by the fountain at the tippecanoe county courthouse.

For andrienne jeffers the plan was always to have a courthouse wedding with a big reception.

"the planning part was already done.

We had gotten engaged in september.

By that point i already knew how i wanted everything to be."

For her the hardest part was watching all her hard work planning go down the drain.

"i made all of our decorations" and she decided to sell them to other brides over facebook.

"i was so sad to see some of it go" they were going to have a donut wall instead of a wedding cake.

"it said holy matrimony on iand everything, oh i loved it it was so pretty.

I was so sad to see some of it go" both couples say they were lucky that they were able to get most of their deposits back.

Jeffers says she has heard horror stories from other brides that weren't so lucky.

"for them not to be able to get their deposits back, my heart goes out to them because this needs to be their special day."

Jeffers and the hockenbary's say they are waiting to see how things go before re planning their special days.

Anna darling news 18 the county clerk's office is now open and accepting applications for marriage licenses.

Find the link to that on our website wlfi.com.

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