wedding planning

Young adults in Provo are familiar with the 'ring by spring' phenomenon, encouraging couples to get engaged by the time they are finished with their final semester of college. As Winter Semester at BYU has come to an end, the budding spring season is seeing an influx in wedding planning.

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COVID-19 temple restrictions have caused Latter-day Saint couples to struggle in securing dates for temple sealings and endowments, creating wedding planning difficulties.

Ariel Mead and her fiance, Aaron Clement, plan to have a civil wedding ceremony before they are sealed in a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Amy Brant Photography)

Baylee Relf poses for her winter bridals with her fur coat. (Angie Monson)

BYU is a college campus like few others. Twenty-three percent of undergraduates were married in 2014. Most engaged students tie the knot during the summer or over Christmas break, but there are some who choose to get married partway through Fall or Winter semester.

Weddings. The one thing every little girl spends her whole life planning for and dreaming of. But when that special time actually comes, it can prove to be much more difficult to make decisions, get plans set, and make everybody happy. Most people wait until they've graduated from college, settled into their careers and are relatively financially stable before deciding to get married. But, because of a younger marriage-seeking demographic in Utah, there is a high number of wedding resources that have popped up everywhere- especially in Utah Valley. There are so many options that making decisions can seem overwhelming. But, if you stick with the topwedding planning guides, I can assure you, you'll be just fine.

Engagement can be blissful and exciting. That is, until the big storm hits: wedding planning, getting married and going on a honeymoon. If that wasn't difficult enough, many students are doing it all in the middle of the semester, while trying to stay on top of classes.