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ROMANCE & WEDDING
Love Finds a Way for Three Coast Couples
story by Lynn Lofton
A photos by Paige Reaux Photography Taylor'd Weddings + Elopements
and courtesy of Rachel Howard and Mickey D'Angelo
s the old saying goes, love will sides and we stood in the middle.” thought we would have to cancel due to nd a way. Three recently married Worch and Craig met in college where new restrictions and mandates coming Coast couples found ways to have both were in the art department. She out,” Rachel said. “We decided there safe and memorable weddings during is now senior designer at Singing River was no need to wait for the following
the pandemic.
Maura Worch and Jacob Craig were married on March 27 of last year in her parents' backyard. The wedding was supposed to take place on May 9, but with COVID looming and no end in sight,
the couple decided to scale down the ceremony and proceed with caution with only 10 family members in attendance.
“It was wild but I was in that bride mentality,” Maura recalls. “My parents' courtyard is beautiful and it's amazing how supportive they were. We brought out chairs from inside and spaced them out. Our parents sat on benches on two
Health System and he is deputy director of outdoor recreation at Keesler Air Force Base.
“For us, going ahead with the wedding was the spontaneous thing to do. We started working from home after the wedding and it was nice to have each other during the lock down,” she says. “It helped with the stress.”
Rachel Howard and Mickey D'Angelo were married on the beach in Biloxi on December 19. They had many ups and downs of emotions during this time, but remained hopeful and positive. “We had weeks where we
year because let's face it, we had no clue when the world would go back to 'normal' anyway.”
When the week of their wedding arrived, there was a COVID scare
and the couple took the tests, which
came back negative. “Thankfully, after everything, our wedding came together awlessly,” Rachel says. “I decided to do things untraditionally and kept it simple with no bridesmaids, no rehearsal dinner, and no public ceremony. We did an intimate ceremony on the beach with only our parents and Micky's grandmother; that way they felt comfortable attending.
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