The coronavirus outbreak has forced many to postpone milestone events, but one newly engaged West Virginia couple isn’t letting the virus spoil their big day.
When Tjuana Bassett and Alex Herrick got engaged on April 21 last year, they were so excited to have a beautiful spring wedding this May.
Unfortunately, a global pandemic had other plans.
“We realized around mid-March it would be a possibility, and 32 days before the wedding we officially decided to postpone,” Bassett told Global News. “After President Trump extended the social distancing to April 30, we knew we had no chance at our original date.”
They were both crushed at the loss of their spring wedding dream.
“I was extremely stressed out. I cried for days, and my fiancé Alex didn’t take it well either,” Bassett said. “It was hard for both of us to make the choice to postpone.”
After a few people sent them links on Facebook to other couples redoing their save-the-date announcements, Bassett and Herrick thought it would be a great idea to re-do theirs as well.
Taking to Facebook, the couple shared a light-hearted photoshoot to ask their wedding guests to “re-save our date.”
In the photos, they clink Corona beers and share a kiss while holding a bottle of Purell hand sanitizer. In one, Herrick gets down on one knee, offering his wife-to-be a packet of toilet paper — a once arbitrary item now with a lot more meaning thanks to coronavirus panic-buying.
Lucky for the nearly newlyweds, they don’t have to change too much about their special day, aside from adding some fall colours for their new wedding date of Oct. 24.
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