Rachel Melvin Instagram – PT 3
For the next week, Kevin and I cleaned our house multiple times, trying to remove the mass amounts of mud from our floors and rugs. When we finally finished about a week later, we both got Covid for the first time, just days before we were supposed to board a plane for our honeymoon – which, obviously, we had to cancel. As if that weren’t enough, while we were sick, our dog OD’ed on weed he’d gotten into while we were in the shower and almost died. The day after, our water main broke. About a week after that, Kevin broke his leg. Did I mention he also got stung by a scorpion for the first time the week before our wedding? You just can’t write this shit, folks!
Needless to say, it’s been a very trying time for us and incredibly painful to revisit the photos we do have enough to post them to social media. Photos of a ceremony we attempted to salvage consist of bright orange, home depot buckets weighing down soccer tents that block the beautiful mountain views we designed everything around, while mud stained fabric pulls focus from the dresses and florals of those struggling to walk down a muddy aisle. Subtleties and nuances woven in and our of plans for the night, like our remembrance candle listing all of those we and our guests had lost over the years, went undocumented if not unnoticed.
But, what’s been one of the hardest things for us is hearing people remind us of how “lucky it is to have it rain on your wedding day” or that “no one has the perfect wedding” and things “always go wrong.” They go on then to share their experiences with us in an effort to relate and be helpful, which somehow has resulted in us feeling worse. The truth is, there are very few people who can offer any real empathy. After all, it’s a rare thing to have one, single couple build their own venue, then style, cook for, and coordinate their wedding themselves. We don’t expect people to truly understand the level of heartbreak and disappointment we felt and still feel, and we don’t expect them to have the words to comfort us.
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