On Sept. 13, Hurricane Ike made landfall in Texas, tearing through Houston and surrounding areas with brute force, leaving destruction in its wake. Among those affected by Ike were many couples whose wedding dates happened to coincide with the hurricane’s devastating onslaught, along with countless venues and vendors contracted to provide services for these weddings...
Haley Hughes, [Candice Graves]
En Vogue Events
“ Amanda and her fiancé Tim, were planning their wedding at Chateau Polonez for Sept. 13. We all watched as the hurricane neared. Then Thursday we realized there was no way we could expect all of their friends and family to travel with the storm looming.
On Thursday evening, Amanda’s fiancé turned to his almost-wife and asked her if she wanted to wake up married on Sunday, or postpone everything.
They decided that the whole point was to start their life together, so they did a quick ceremony at Prince of Peace church on Friday morning before the storm came.
They turned their rehearsal dinner, scheduled at a hotel for later that Friday, into a mini reception, holding it at lunchtime instead of the originally scheduled dinner, because the hotel was going to house people evacuating from the hurricane. They found a cake vendor, who had cake sitting around from the other cancelled weddings, but was not far from the rehearsal dinner site, so she got the bride’s colors and made a beautiful wedding cake. The florist was able to drop off all the flowers—which were originally made for a reception size of 300—so there were flowers everywhere.
There was a little boy staying at the hotel who was celebrating his birthday, so our bride and groom shared their wedding cake as a birthday cake.
Now they are enjoying their honeymoon, as a married couple. Upon their return we will be doing a ‘re-enactment’ of the ceremony and then having the big blow-out reception on Oct. 25 at Chateau Polonez.”
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