A Very Covid Wedding

May 25, 2020, Kevin and I had our Minimony, our mini ceremony, with just our parents and siblings. This was very, very different from the 200+ wedding we had originally planned but this is what our wedding now consisted of because of coronavirus! We postponed our wedding to next May so we will still have the ceremony and reception at our venue that we originally planned for! But we were still having our minimony on our original date because we could not give up our date. We have had our date picked out for years and it would be too weird for us to have any other wedding date, so we moved forward with planning our minimony!

We decided to have the minimony in my parents backyard, where we had the engagement party. Kevin and I knew we wanted to keep our wedding day as normal as possible! So we started making our timeline for the day which I will break down here!

7 AM Wake Up & Makeup

I woke up on my wedding day in our apartment with Kev and we had our coffee like we always do and then I showered and did my own makeup- because covid. I had to do my own makeup. These are the eyelashes I used, click this link to get $5 off! You can also save 20% on the Be The Boss Lip Gloss I used in color, Time after Time with code KIRBY!

Here is everything I used:

9 AM Hair

My sister/MOH picked me up from my apartment and brought me to my hair appointment. I wasn’t able to have my hair trial yet, so I was able to book my hair trial for my minimony which was really cool! I was so lucky that makeup and hair team have their own private salon so I was the only person in the whole salon besides the hair stylist! We were of course wearing our masks!- During this time the rest of our families were setting up everything at the house for us while Kev and I were getting ready!

12 PM Getting Ready

After getting my hair done we had to drive back to my parents house so my sister could get dressed and ready and so I could get into my dress! I didn’t wear my original dress because it was way too perfect for the other venue and didn’t really work for the backyard so I ordered a few dresses from Davids Bridal and I ended up finding one that I really loved! Best part of all is that it arrived in like 5 days! A great option for any covid bride who wants a second dress! This is the exact dress that I wore! During these hours my sister was taking pictures of us getting ready. Kevin and his family arrived along with the photographer who started their family portraits. Closer to 2pm our officiant arrived as well!

2PM Minimony Starts

Kevin had set up a scheduled zoom meeting so all of our friends and family that were invited to the wedding were able to witness our minimony over the zoom call! Like I pointed out earlier, we tried to keep the day as normal as possible so we walked down the aisle, Kevin with his parents, our maid of honor and best man, and then my parents and I walked out. We even had the songs playing that we picked out to walked down the aisle at our venue.Kevin and I spent the time after our minimony taking pictures with our photographer and the results are beautiful!

3PM FOOD!

While Kevin and I were taking pictures our families moved over to ‘cocktail hour’ where we had our signature drinks and appetizers by the pool and my sister even surprised us with a beautiful video from our bridal party! We then got to move over to the patio for dinner and had an Italian feast and a champagne toast!

4PM Car Parade

This was one of the most fun parts of the day! All of our friends and family drove from near and far, some even hours away, like different states! We had 75+ people show up to our car parade and when each car came up we handed out goodie bags and thanked our guests for coming and talked to our guests for a little while but not too long that other people in the line would be annoyed!

5PM CAKE & Dancing!

We cut the cake and had our first dance and our parent dances! Kevin and I had our playlist going of all the songs we had asked our band to play at our wedding and the 11 of us danced and had the best time!

This was our minimony! Even though our wedding was ruined by covid we still managed to have the best day!

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Daily Goodie Box Review May 2019

Daily Goodie Box is a FREE box that is shipped out once a month and its filled with 10 FULL SIZED & deluxe samples! Daily goodie box is basically a mix between Pinchme and Social Nature and they ship out the first Monday of each month! All you have to do once you get the box is leave reviews for each product once you have tried it out

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Seventeen Magazine Contest May / June 2018

Remember Only one person per household can enter otherwise you will be disqualified. Good Luck to all that enter, and let us know if you win!

Open till- July 16, 2018

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MYTHICAL

Retail $70

1 Winner will win a Unicorn Neon Desk Light from Amped & Co

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YUMMY

Retail $946

2 Winners will win a year’s supply of gummy bears from SmartSweets

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SHADES

Retail $400

1 Winner will win a pair of sunglasses from STATE Optical Co.

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Only 4 winners this month! Good luck! Please let us know if you have won!

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