Marriage is changing.
The coronavirus stopped him.
Wedding planners are turning their roles to save their business, and two organizers of occasions in the Tampa Bay domain are about to go through this transformation.
Maria Grill spoke to Spectrum Bay News nine from the wedding rite seats at Crystal Ballroom Tampa
Behind her, an incredibly instagrameable arc of white flowers and crystal makings stood up with reflected chandeliers, an all-in-one position with giant white curtains and bright chandeliers.
The Ballroom is one of the suppliers parilla and his wife Cecilia Claudio have worked with since the launch of Elegant Evening Events in 2017.
“That’s when we discovered the ‘mini-moons’.
It’s rehearsal, rite and birthday party in a position, like a beach space, for the weekend.
And this is the novelty to have smaller and safer celebrations.
Less occasions and coordination on the day of the wedding are two of the tactics in which Parilla and Claudio compensate for the maximum occasions closed this year by coronavirus.
And they did not lose any wives since 2020, as they worked to reschedule and reimagine the marriages Life in the Coronavirus era.
These women are extraordinaryly afraid of the economic uncertainty they face and believe they can find a way to succeed.
That’s what they went through.
First, Maria is a veteran.
He served eight years in the Florida Army National Guard and moved to Kuwait for a year.
“Thanks to my experience in the army, I have learned to stay calm in tense situations. And being in the wedding industry as a wedding planner, there’s a lot of tension: dresses fly, bridesmaids scream, whatever,” Grill said. is chaosArray So you have to be calm in the storm.
Second, they are veterans of Hurricane Maria.
Claudio had planned a fast girls’ weekend in Puerto Rico with Grill in September 2017. She wanted to see her parents after Hurricane Irma hit the island, and Parilla had never been on vacation.
But it became a fight against Category Five Hurricane Maria and its catastrophic consequences.
It took them three days to find a way to locate one of Claudio’s stranded grandmothers on the island. And it’s a week and a part before any of the women touch their wife and the circle of relatives off the island.
“Then this pandemic is serious, but I know we can get there because we were Hurricane Maria,” Claudio said.
“At the end of the day, we are friends before business and we can count on each other,” said Parrilla. “And I love it”.
In recent months, Virginia Johnson has taken him all over Tampa Bay to see how other people are managing life in the coronavirus era.
To see their past stories, here.