Anyone else's family and friends been really dismissive about COVID-cancelled weddings?
We've had so many people say that it "doesn't matter."
I know that being healthy and safe is most important. 100%. We're together, and that's what matters.
But we had to cancel our $15,000 wedding, and two major vendors (venue and caterer) won't offer refunds and can't line up schedules for over a year. We had wedding insurance but they aren't paying anything.
We're going to the courthouse so I don't lose health insurance, and getting married IS what matters most, but we'll never be able to afford a wedding. Even if we did, everyone has pointed out that it wouldn't be "real" so it wouldn't "matter."
I don't know. We didn't choose to elope willynilly. We didn't CHOOSE to cancel our wedding. It sucks, especially considering all these people had justifiably obsessed about their own weddings for a year or more, sometimes before they were even engaged.