Wedding Insured but Date Unsure with Bride, Zoe

Bride to Have Been

In today’s world, trying to get married has become... a hot mess. So, to all the COVID brides to have been, grooms and wedding professionals: you’re not alone. Welcome to Bride To Have Been, a StudioPod original podcast hosted by Emily Lewis, with the purpose of building a community by sharing the reality of this new normal in the wedding industry. Let’s keep inspiring each other and celebrate the thing we treasure the most: love.

When Zoe Benson met her partner, Julian, she just knew he was the one, and after the perfect proposal she started to plan her dream wedding. Unfortunately, COVID left Zoe watching as her plans slowly fell apart. In this episode, Emily sits down with her doppelgänger, Zoe, to chat about her experience as a bride during 2020. From the initial relief of thinking everything would calm down by her wedding date in September, to finally canceling her ceremony, Zoe opens up about how she finally surrendered to the year’s twists and turns and how her wedding insurance made all the difference in the end. Tune in now to listen to these COVID brides’ experiences and reflect on your own 2021 plans. Most importantly, discover a strong, loving community that, just like you, has learned to bob and weave, and stay strong in the middle of chaos and uncertainty.

Jump straight into:

(01:15) - How Zoe met Julian and how he proposed - “From the beginning he was always so happy and positive and supportive of me. I just was very open from the beginning with him and he always responded positively and it just made me feel more confident in being myself.”

(13:07) - Zoe’s dream wedding vision - “So many of our friends have gotten married, so each wedding I've been taking notes and I have a whole list of things that I really want and kind of turn it into our own.”

(17:04) - Why you should never skip on the wedding insurance - “It just kept going and getting worse. That's when I started to get really nervous about it, because I didn't want to put anyone at risk.”

(22:19) - Surrendering to the idea that your wedding is just not going to happen - “We didn't want to get married without our parents there.”

(26:55) - Celebrating on their original wedding day - “It was really nice to realize that something small and intimate was still really special and it didn't need to be this big, huge event to make it feel like a wedding.”

(30:19) - On attending large weddings - “Some of our really close friends got married a couple of weeks ago. And we were invited and it crushes me that we weren't there and that we said no, but it was still a hundred person wedding.”

Thanks for listening! Follow us on Instagram and feel free to send us your COVID wedding stories. Bride To Have Been is a podcast brought to you by GiftPod and produced at StudioPod. Edits were made at Nodalab and music was produced by GaryOAKland. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and share with all of your fellow brides.