Welcome to the wedding boom. How couples are handling the busiest season in 40 years
After Dani Joselson got engaged in 2018, she and her fiancé, Doug DeMarco, set a date for April 2020, hoping to enjoy a long engagement, just being a couple.
"Little did we know," sighs Joselson, 28, that a global pandemic would leave her still waiting to walk down the aisle, nearly four years later.
Having to cancel their original wedding date was "the worst," Joselson recalls. Instead of saying, "I do" in a beautiful, rustic barn on a Connecticut lake, she spent her would-be-wedding night eating cold pizza at home, sobbing on zoom to her would-be-bridesmaids.
"I was hysterically crying," she says. "I was like crying up all night, because that was supposed to be our day."
They rebooked for August, but "then the same sort of thing happened," Joselson says. "And then the same sort of thing happened again, and again and again."
Five times actually.
"It was awful, she says. "With delta, and omicron, we just kept picking the wrong dates."
