Not even Hurricane Dorian which brought wind gust at around 100 km/h and rainfall from 100-150 mms could ruin our big day on September 7, 2019.
What took about 16 months to plan was completely turned around in nearly 1 hour.
We had planned for an outdoor wedding on the ground of a beautiful Inn in Moncton, NB where we had also rented rooms for our guest to stay. The plan was to have our ceremony outside and reception inside a large tent we rented. Two days before our big day we spent countless hours setting up the tent and decorating just as we planned all along.
By 4pm on our wedding day (1 hour before the ceremony) we had to make a decision tough to tear everything down from inside the tent and drag it inside the small Inn as the hurricane was so bad it had blown in parts of our tent and was unsafe for us and our guest to hold the ceremony and reception inside of it.
With the help of our loving friends and family, they started running down to the tent in the midst of this hurricane, to start lugging in all our décor/alcohol/glasses… you name it, to bring inside the tent. While a crew redecorated the inside of the Inn to hold a ceremony and reception in record timing (only 30 mins behind schedule). As this went on I was instructed to go "relax" in our honeymoon suite with my bridesmaids until everything was ready.
As I walked down the "aisle", looking at the newly decorated Inn for the first time and seeing my soon to be husband I could not take the smile off my face and it stayed for the rest of the night.
Not one thing went as planned on our big day but I could not be more grateful for it.
It showed us just how much our friends and family love and care for us. They would brave a hurricane to make sure our day was special.
It ended being a perfect maritime kitchen party kind of wedding. Somehow we never lost power and was able to celebrate all night long. A night we will never forget.
All this to remind any future brides to not sweat the small stuff. This is a day I will never forget and neither will our friends and family. Had everything went as planned we would not have the stories to tell today or the laughs we shared during this whirlwind of a day. We also would of never captured my all time favorite photo of us kissing in a hurricane.
At the end of the day all the really matters is that you are marrying your best friends in front of all your loved ones
- Nicole S.