Covid-19 wedding a ‘divine’ success
Luckily, these locals were able to still have their pre-wedding parties.
Farrarmere residents Elouise (24) and Ruan Röhm (27) recently shared vows of love and tied their forever knot on February 27.
“We got engaged last year in March and decided on this date together, believing it was our meant-to-be date, which we believed God sent to us,” said Elouise.
“We believed that everything would work out the way He planned it.
“We also hoped Covid-19 would allow us to get married on this day. Luckily, we didn’t have to postpone, but due to Covid regulations, we had to change our wedding venue two weeks before the actual wedding.
“So all in all, the [biggest stress] was having to plan a new wedding in just two weeks.”
Luckily, these locals were able to still have their pre-wedding parties.
“We were able to do all the wedding planning things, such as kitchen tea, bachelor and the bachelorette,” she said.
“We were fortunate enough to have our bachelor and bachelorette at a family and friends farm’, which allowed us to not only be safe from the virus, but also enabled us to have fun without too much worry.”
Elouise and Ruan believe their wedding was a great success, even though their guest list had to be cut.
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“We were restricted to 100 people at our wedding,” she said.
“The number of people attending had to [decrease] due to Covid, so we had to drop from 160.
“We started by inviting the closest family and friends first and worked our way to the final number of 100 guests.
It’s never an easy decision to leave out someone close to us.
“We had to keep reminding ourselves that our special day was already planned for us the day we were born and that we should just trust in God and follow. Our amazing family and friends supported and helped us in every decision with no animosity.”
The lovebirds spoke their vows in Limpopo at a venue called Wildwood Venue.
“This was the best day ever together,” she explained.
“We got to share our beautiful and pure love with our great God, special family and friends. We weren’t restricted all the time to wearing masks, as to how a restaurant would work.
“You arrive with the mask and are seated in the ceremony with a mask but once everyone reached their tables we were able to remove them, so we were able to see all our guests’ faces.”
One would think a dream wedding during Covid-19 was impossible, but according to the newlyweds, this is exactly what they could have hoped for.
“It was a ‘lekker jol’,” she chuckled.
“This was exactly what we wanted, we couldn’t see one person who didn’t enjoy our day with us.”
Their honeymoon was also affected by the pandemic.
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“We went to Hluhluwe and Cape Vidal in KZN for our honeymoon,” she said.
“We had an amazing time realising how beautiful our own country is. But the virus did impact our honeymoon as we had planned to go overseas but had to make the decision to stay in our own country.
“The sad thing was to see that all these beautiful attractions in our country are empty at this moment due to regulations on tourism.
“But all in all, we became ‘one’ with God’s presence, got to share this beautiful day with special family and friends and share our unconditional love for each other with everyone. For that, we will be eternally grateful.”
