What I’ve Learned After Canceling and Replanning My Wedding Twice in Quarantine

I didn’t care much about weddings until I started to plan my own. And I never realized how much I would care about my own wedding until the pandemic caused me to cancel it—twice. When my fiance proposed, we were just excited to plan a life together. The wedding itself seemed like an afterthought. We had been living 3,000 miles apart for over a year, due to being of different nationalities. However, soon into our engagement we realized that a wedding could be the first traditional milestone our relationship ever experienced.

The beginning of our relationship was usurped by visa applications and bureaucratic restrictions that determined how long we could spend together. We had met...

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