TREASURE COAST WEDDINGS
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Perfect day on the beach
Corrine and Michael Bernard — July 18, 2020
Leading up to our beautiful wedding at Hutchinson
Shores Resort & Spa in Jensen Beach, we
faced many difficult obstacles due to COVID-19.
Our wedding planner, Cindy Morley from
Eventful Moments, was our rock throughout the entire process.
She had set us up with her A-team vendors and we were so
excited for our big day.
But when the pandemic hit, our guest list significantly
dropped and we were left with a lot of unknowns, including the
possibility of the venue being closed. As if that were not enough,
when Tom, the banquet manager we had been dealing with since
we first toured the resort a year ago furloughed, we began to lose
all hope of having our dream wedding on the beach.
Morley had been in close contact with all of the vendors and
kept reassuring us all were a go for our big day. Things were not
looking good in our eyes, which added stress on both of us. Deep
down we both knew that we had no control over the pandemic,
so whatever was going to happen with our wedding was going
to happen.
We came to realize that if our big day had to be pushed back a
year or two then that’s what had to happen. A week before our
wedding, the banquet manager returned to work and called us
immediately to let us know we were a go. That meant the world
to us as we were finally ready to get married. Despite losing
more than half of our guests, we did have about 65 people saying
they would be there to celebrate our big day.
Our guests were coming from New York, New Jersey, Arizona,
Florida and Virginia. However, a few days before the wedding,
Jessica, the maid of honor, told us that she couldn’t travel from
New Jersey to Florida because of her work COVID restrictions.
This was devastating.
I quickly reached out to DJs Nick and Jaydee from Best Day
Ever and we came up with a plan. We would surprise Corinne
with Jessica on the big screen during the reception so she could
give her maid of honor speech. Shouts to Best Day Ever for making
that happen because it was absolutely amazing.
Next thing we knew, our wedding day arrived, but the
weather forecast did not look promising to have a beach wedding
or to a drone capture our wedding. Twenty minutes before
the ceremony, Tom made the decision for us to have the wedding
outside on the beach as the sun came out as well as the blue
skies. Everything was falling into place as we hoped it would,
but we had no idea how or if it was going to come together.
The flowers by Stephanie from South Forty Floral were beautiful,
the arbor we had custom made looked amazing, Frank and
Colleen from Eclipse Videography were absolutely spot on, Carolynn
from Lightcap Studios and her team were so professional
and finally the resort put no restrictions on us and allowed for
us to enjoy every minute of our big day from the second Corrine
walked down the aisle with her father to our last private slow
dance with just the camera rolling on us.
We will remember every bit of what we went through leading
up to our big day, but the way our wedding video, pictures and
day turned out, it was nothing short of perfection.
Do you want to share news and photos of your big day? Email Kim Capen at kim@indianrivermag.com.
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