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Show 04 | MyWeberMedia.com| August 28, 2020 SAYING “I DO” D Jake an d Kyle Photog raphy Mitche ll and J aidin B urke ly a Emi By CAITLYN NICHOLS Section Editor When BYU students Maren Davis and her husband Matt got engaged in October, they had no idea what was coming. Davis, once a wedding host at an event center in Salt Lake City, had been planning her dream spring wedding since high school. She had everything figured out, from the food to where they would stand – she called it a logistical masterpiece. In early March, coronavirus cases were on the rise in the United States and in Utah, and the state began to shut down. Davis said it was heartbreaking to watch everything they had planned get canceled. They had to start from ground zero all over again. “I’m a planner, so having everything get unexpectedly canceled was like a nightmare,” Davis said. “Don’t get me wrong, I was still really excited to get married, but it was hard to keep that in perspective when everything was falling apart.” Davis said that between February and April, she must have planned at least 10 different weddings. Their saving grace was their photographer, who kept them informed of all the new updates, even letting them know when Utah County had shut down their offices so that the couple could get a marriage license in Salt Lake County before they shut down, too. Despite the help, the uncertainty was stressful. “I remember after so much stress of trying to plan and replan, the earthquake hit and I just thought ‘the world is ending. I don’t even care about plans anymore, we’re getting married asap,’” Davis said. In the end, the Davises moved their wedding up from the first of May to April 10 and had a small ceremony on the mountain with just them, their parents, siblings and the bishop to marry them. Some friends and family came to support them, forming a lineup of cars from which they threw birdseed as the couple walked by. They are now inviting everyone to celebrate their marriage with a social-distancing responsible ota ak nd D Ro s one sJ bert reception. Emily Roberts Jones, another student of BYU, and her husband Dakota, student of UVU, also had to endure the craziness of trying to plan and replan a wedding during coronavirus. The Roberts Joneses got engaged on March 7, about a week before the state shut down. At first, their original reception center assured them that their July wedding would be completely normal. However, the coronavirus situation didn’t improve. Six weeks before the wedding, they were informed that their wedding party would have to be severely limited, which for them would’ve meant choosing which brothers could come to the wedding. |