Iliadys Granado
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Wedding in the midsts of a pandemic.
every girl dreams of the day they get proposed to and even more the day they walk down the isle to their forever love. I found the love of my life 2 1/2 years ago. We hit it off immediately. We talked about marriage 3 months in, at 6 months in we moved in together, at 1 1/2 years we got engaged. I always pictured my engagement being a big deal where we’d go somewhere and candles would be lit down a walkway to where I’d stumble upon my almost fiancé and he would get down on one knee and propose while a photographer hid in the bushes. This was how I pictured it right? But it was the complete opposite and I absolutely loved it!! New Years 2020 at countdown to midnight, my handsome, loving, caring, [then] boyfriend, got down on one knee at midnight and popped the big question ♥️ we were at a friends house and we honestly only knew a handful of people but to my surprise it was the most intimate, loving proposal ever. I bawled my eyes out. Out of pure happiness. Realistically I never thought I’d even get married haha so many failed relationships this felt too good to be true. we started planning instantly. We picked our venue by the end of January and in March covid 19 struck. Being in on this magical, floating love cloud i really didnt worry about it too much at first but then things just kept getting worse and worse. We both got laid off from our jobs and had to live off of unemployment. Our car was totaled. We struggled like never before and fell behind on so many bills but we kept our heads up and still pushed for our dream Halloween wedding. Slowly but surely things started to fall apart, along with my heart. Not because I wasn’t marrying the love of my life but because we didn’t get to really enjoy planning like most couples do. Everything has required masks. Everything was set and done through zoom calls and zoom meetings. It became so difficult that we almost gave up. We worried about our family and friends getting sick at the wedding. We worried about people bringing the sickness to us. So much worrying and so much doubt filled our hearts and minds that we slowly stopped planning all together. Beginning of August we got hit with a horrible cps case filled with false allegations from my daughters father. We (my daughter & i) were forced to move to my parents house, still are living here actually. Briefly after that, my parents both contracted covid-19. My world slowly continued to fall apart, thankfully they recovered quickly and great. There have been so many downfalls to this year but i can honestly say that the best thing out of all of this, is that during this time our family went through so many changes and so many obstacles that we all grew closer to each other.2020 has been nothing but a big "crap fest" at least thats the nick name i have given it at this point. I often find myself wishing and praying for it to already be 2021, but then i also anxiously wander what the rest of the year will bring to us? I've struggled so much to make my dream wedding come true and I continue to push through it and pray that no one else gets sick, that covid-19 magically disappears, and that none of our big plans have to get pushed back even more. We even lost our big honeymoon trip to Bali! Soooo bummed. Our big day turned into a small intimate backyard wedding and I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to it! I’ll keep yall posted with details and stories of our magical night 😉♥️
By Iliadys Granado3 years ago in Marriage