Sunnyvale Couple Cancels Wedding for Third Time Due to COVID-19 Concerns

A Sunnyvale mates was each acceptable to speech their wedding vows connected New Year's Day earlier much than 200 household members, but worries astir the COVID-19 omicron variant present person them saying "not yet" alternatively of "I do."

Kristen Coleman and Charles Matthews had already canceled their wedding plans doubly due to the fact that of COVID-19. Then the omicron variant hit.

"I was precise excited, and then, boom, the microorganism took over," Coleman said.

Coleman said she was already worried. Then she started to get cancellations from guests.

"There were emails, texts and telephone calls that radical were exposed oregon they had it," she said. "I got truly nervous."

The mates was particularly acrophobic astir the risks to their older relatives, truthful they made the determination to erstwhile again cancel their wedding.

"It's conscionable being safe," Matthews said. "We don't privation to beryllium a ace spreader."

Coleman said she conscionable couldn't enactment her friends and household astatine hazard of getting the aforesaid microorganism that she'd conscionable survived.

"I got it, and I'll conscionable accidental it, I virtually astir died," she said. "Making this decision, putting different people's lives successful our hands was not thing that I wanted to do."

Coleman said she's relieved her venue successful Menlo Park and her vendors allowed her to postpone without losing money.

Coleman and Matthews are already looking astatine a caller wedding day astatine the aforesaid venue successful six months.

"If it doesn't hap this time, this adjacent time, I don't know, we'll astir apt spell elope somewhere," Coleman said.