Posted on 11/20/2020 3:41:21 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
he Plaza Hotel. Three-hundred-fifty guests. The groom’s college rabbi flying into New York from Senegal. By the first week of March, the florist was booked, the kosher catering was ordered, and the band was arranged. Josh and Sarah Weissmann would be married in April with all the pomp and circumstance that the 23-year-olds—but mostly their parents—could dream up, and surely, nothing would stand in their way.
Josh Weissmann had just one small concern: “I get very nervous with large events,” he said. “I’d never been to the Plaza … I had to go there multiple times to accustom myself with the environment, so I wouldn’t get awkward the day of.” On one of those trips early this year, still not comfortable with the space, he had an idea. “I stuck a little note to Sarah in a utility closet,” he recalled, hoping she would find it at the wedding as a surprise.
Sarah never got a chance to find the note. On a Saturday night mid-March, as a shelter-in-place order readied to sweep Manhattan, Josh gave a rushed goodbye to his roommates and Sarah packed her not-quite-tailored gown into the back of her car. Fast forward three weeks to the night of April 2: They were lying on the floor in the basement of Weissmann’s childhood home in Atlanta—fighting. Should postponing be on the table?
“And then,” Weissmann said, “we just looked at each other—well, Sarah convinced me—but we looked at each other and said, ‘There’s just too much uncertainty in the world. You can only latch on to things you know are certain.’”
Seventy-two hours later, they were married. Two backyards over from the house Josh grew up in....
(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...
Weddings are often the only time people see a lot of their family.
Weddings employ a lot of people.
Now, people often spend too much on a wedding. I'm not sure lobster needs to be served.
right before the lockdown
What the heck is a “Coronavirus Wedding Model”?
It’s sad that the reaction to this virus is changing every area of life, including weddings.
I hope things go back to normal at whatever point someone can give us the all clear signal.
That was a sweet video. Thanks!
A women with a runny nose and weziing with a wonderful body
I didnt catch that the car was remote driven the first time I watched. I thought the kid was really driving it because of the way it was weaving.
It took a lot of effort and secrecy to pull that off. The Priest was in on it.
Small and simple. I like it. Weddings have gotten too big and expensive.
That is just the most precious-est wedding ever! Immediate tears welling up!
Okay best groom ever. He planned that omg.
Spanish flu in 1918 killed 20 million but didn’t really change anything. Coronavirus?? OMG! Nothing can ever be normal again!
I am a firm believer in the small, backyard wedding model.
It can’t be good to make young brides stalk around like Bridezillas for a year. Just a lot of excess and waste that should be done away with.
‘It’s sad that the reaction to this virus is changing every area of life’
what’s even more sad than that are the stupid idiots begging their governors to shut them down again...
‘Coronavirus?? OMG! Nothing can ever be normal again!’
well, what do you expect...? It only has a 99.6% survival rate...
Ask about funeral models.
Talk about something devastating.
I’m still wondering how the funeral homes handle this nonsense. Only good thing is guaranteed business. Just minimized.
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