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The Spurriers, Est. 2021

Title (Dublin Core)

The Spurriers, Est. 2021

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

When the world shutdown on March 13, 2020 our lives became abruptly different. The excitement for my now husband’s and my upcoming wedding fell by the wayside. After eight years of being together, we again had to wait. We were incredibly disappointed not just about the wedding, but the inability to share our favorite vacation spot, Isla Mujeres, with our favorite people. The tiny island, located off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, was a place we had visited over a handful of times at that point. Being suddenly barred from traveling there seemed unreal. We planned again, tentatively, for the following July, and this time it worked! All of our wonderful friends and family made the trek. This included my only remaining grandparent who had broken a hip and been diagnosed with COVID simultaneously while in her eighties. We were forced to visit her through a window of a rehabilitation facility for months leading up to this, and getting to share all of this with her was something we never thought we would have. Our friends and family flew wearing masks and had to undergo testing at the hotel before returning home. Inviting people to travel for a destination wedding is already asking a lot, but it was even more so during a pandemic. The experience was even more joyous for this reason. We got to experience the love and support, but also some normalcy and good times that were absent in the year previous. We also got to celebrate my father's birthday the following day, on July eighteenth. It’s an experience I will never forget and I am so grateful to have, not for the pandemic, but for all of us coming together for an unforgettable time.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 17, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Monica Lopez
Monica Lopez, Photographer

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Angelica Xochitl Spurrier

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph
Text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Travel
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

wedding
family
Cancun
restrictions
marriage
memories

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

spring A Session 2025
History of Tourism
IslamunjeresMx
Pandemic in Paradise
Aint Nothing Going to Break My Stride
Love Wins All

Collection (Dublin Core)

COVID Bride

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/30/2025

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/08/2025
02/10/2025
02/17/2025

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This item was submitted on January 30, 2025 by Angelica Xochitl Spurrier using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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