Last June we put down the deposit on what we thought would be the venue for our vow renewal. As our actual wedding fell right in the middle of COVID, we always wanted to have a big event and invite all the special people in ours lives to celebrate with us. I was so excited that the venue we booked would be the perfect backdrop for our renewal.

Then about two months after we booked, I get an email that the venue’s management company is going through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. But Thomas Bain, the Boxwood Hospitality sleazeball, assured us that everything was fine and our event would go on without issue. I had never had an event venue go through bankruptcy before, so I wasn’t even sure what to do. Not that there was much to do anyway because we had already signed the contract and given them our money.

Cut to today. Thomas Bain shoots out a daintily written email that says a whole lot of nothing (probably for legal reasons). When I get him on the phone he tells us that the company is ceasing all operations, will not be providing any of the services outlined in the contract and, to top it off, will be keeping our deposit.

“It’s gone,” He tells us. As if it evaporated into the very air right in front of him, leaving him shaken and uneasy.

Pretty sure we will never get our money back. Pretty sure I’m done trying to plan this event, as well.

I feel like I have been planning weddings that will never happen for entirely too much of my adult life. Being engaged three times didn’t help with that, let me tell you. But at this point, I’m starting to think it’s just not going to happen. Maybe it shouldn’t. For the good of us all.

Who knows?

So… If you heard me talking about a vow renewal and then you never see an invitation, please know, it did not go on without your attendance. At this point, it’s just not going on at all.