-Like, I think for us, like, we wanted a big wedding,
and friends and family
are really important to us, community,
so our original guest list was 300 people,
and we, like, cut it down to 240,
and I think that, yeah, that was the hardest part,
like, that we went from, like --
we figured out a way to afford a 200-people wedding.
There were gonna be, like, their glass and also their table.
-A couple weeks ago, when cases started popping up in the US,
and this was kind of like, I don't know,
almost like racing against time.
Like, is our wedding gonna happen soon enough before,
you know, this virus becomes a big thing in the US?
And so I think, like, it was really last week
when it started to get real, like,
"Oh, we're gonna have to start making some decisions."
-We sent out an e-mail I think last Friday,
and, like, I started telling people, like,
"Hey, if you don't feel comfortable traveling,
if you have health issues
or if you're sick, maybe don't come.
Like, we'll be fine."
But I think even, like, uh, Monday morning,
it went to like maybe 50,
but then it feels like in less than two hours,
it was like then, like,
we couldn't even have maybe 10 people.
We were very, yeah, upset, but, yeah, it was hard.
-Yeah. Yeah.
It was really sad. Yeah.
We had all these hopes and expectations
about what we thought our wedding was gonna be like,
and, um, yeah. It was just crazy.
It changed, like, overnight, just within a few hours.
-We, like, prayed for a while
and, like, talked, and we were like,
"It feels like we need to move it to Wednesday,"
because it felt like if we waited until tomorrow
or Friday, it might not happen
'cause things were, like, changing so fast,
so that's why we were just like, "We just want to be married,"
and we tried to do the safest thing --
you know, like, sanitize everything, and just like,
um, at some point, then I was, like --
I was gonna do a video for my family in Mexico,
and then I was like, "You know what?
Let's just put it on Facebook Live,
and, like, whoever wants to watch
it can be there, and then we'll save the video."
Hi, guys!
-It was just the most amazing ceremony -- so meaningful,
and people said such wonderful things about us
and for us and over us.
-The day is finally here.
Corona didn't sabotage it.
Do you believe it?
-Well, we just had, like, people, like, have, like,
watch parties or something.
They, like, dressed up, and I had a friend
that dressed her daughter --
I think she's 1 or 2. -It's Claudette!
She looks so beautiful!
-It felt like, yeah, all these people were there.
-It's an honor to introduce to you for the first time
as a married couple Dave Johnson and Claudette Monroy Johnson!
-Whoo!
Yay! Congrats!
-I think that was, like, the main thing why we were sad,
is that our friends and our family
are so important to us.
-Oh, we look so good. -Yeah.
-This is, like, the filming -- like, the Facebook Live filming
and, like, all the comments.
-That's so funny.
Oh, I like that one, too. -Yeah.
-For me, it's also like this has been hard
because we built these relationships with our vendors,
and just to see, like, how impacted their lives
are gonna be and it's hard financially for us,
and it's like how do we still respect and honor these vendors?
'Cause we know that we're all kind of struggling through.
We met a family at the farmers' market.
They had, like, a taco stand, and their food was so good,
so we booked them a few months ago,
so I think it was hard 'cause, like,
I knew this is, like, an immigrant family,
and, you know, we don't know, like, their income.
Like, how is that gonna be?
Like, are they gonna be able to serve food
at the farmers' markets and, like, all of their, like,
events that are gonna be canceled?
But we'll freeze some of it,
and then we'll donate some of it, too.
It's lots of emotions this week, but I'm really happy,
and we're married, so yay!
We're married!