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Planning and Re-Planning Weddings During COVID-19

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

The Concord Monitor

When Morgan Carpenter and Eliot Pelletier picked Aug. 8 as their wedding date, they pictured a big summer celebration full of family and friends.

Morgan Carpenter (left) and Eliot Pelletier pose for engagement photos in Peterborough on Jan. 19. At that point, the couple wasn’t concerned about the coronavius pandemic inteerfering with the Aug. 8 wedding. That isn’t the case now. BEN CONANT/ Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

That was in January, before the coronavirus clamped down on the world and made all large gatherings unsafe. Now, Carpenter and Pelletier are trying to picture what their wedding might look like with 10 people or less standing six feet apart, or if they can reschedule their summer celebration for next year.

“We’re very worried,” Carpenter said. “Mostly we’re really unsure.”

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