To ensure the health and safety of all our loved ones, we are requiring our guests to be fully vaccinated to attend our wedding reception. If you are not vaccinated for medical reasons or personal conviction, we will also accept a negative COVID test. If you take a COVID test, we ask that you do so within 72 hours of the reception (November 3, 2021).

We will also be operating under Nevada state regulations regarding masks and social distancing (whatever those regulations are at the time of our reception). We hope with these measures in place that all of our family and friends will have a great time celebrating without worry. Thank you for understanding and please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

Planning a wedding is a major undertaking. Planning a "Covid Wedding" threw many more challenges our way that we never thought we would experience. While we joke about postponing twice and mailing three (3) 'Save the Date' cards, we don't joke about how severely this pandemic has affected us, our family and friends, our country, and the entire world.

When we got engaged, we planned for a wedding that would take place roughly a year and a half later. When the nation shut down in March of 2020, COVID cases were continuously rising, and we had no end in sight. We didn't want to play a guessing game, so we postponed our wedding (originally scheduled for September 6, 2020). As the months dragged on (and on they dragged), the uncertainty of when we were going to get married became real. After a lot of discussion, difficult conversations, and a big curveball, we decided we didn’t want to postpone our marriage. We got married on our original wedding date at Alex’s parent’s house, with our immediate family members, Maid of Honor, and Best Man. #CovidCantStopTheCohens

In “normal” times, after a couple gets married, they don’t have to keep planning their wedding! For Pandemic Couples, you plan, postpone again, and replan until it makes sense (or your hair falls out). We did start planning our reception for February 13, 2021. By winter of 2020, COVID cases were skyrocketing, and we learned very quickly that February would not be ideal. So, postpone again, we shall. It’s not often you can celebrate your one year wedding anniversary before having your wedding reception, but to say we are ready to celebrate is an understatement. We are endlessly thankful for the support of our amazing parents, bridal party, family, and friends during this process. We can’t wait to finally celebrate with you!

Jake and I attended Faith Lutheran High School and were in the same graduating class. Jake was a “lax bro” and I was a "choir kid" (almost ten years later and some things never change). Even though our graduating class was made up of only about 150 students, our paths never actually crossed! We can’t even remember having any classes together (yet Jake likes to claim that he was interested in me way back then).

In January 2017, about six months after I had moved back to Las Vegas after living the California post-grad life, Jake and I ended up at the same bar. He likes to claim that this is the night he knew he wanted to get to know me, though he didn’t actually talk to me for seven months after that night.

According to Jake, he talked to (his now future best man) Chad F. about how he wanted to date me (because why wouldn’t he)? Sometime in July, Jake found a very romantic way to get ahold of me- through my Instagram DM’s. I remember thinking it was a little random talking to this person I knew, yet didn’t know at the same time, but was still intrigued to get to know him. He was very forward and asked me on a date.

During our first date, Jake mentioned that a couple days prior he realized his receding hair line and wanted to make sure he would still look good bald one day. That is why he was bald on our first date. That proved to me that Jake is the most "unashamedly himself" person I have ever met. He spoke kindly, was a gentleman, and did not even kiss me at the conclusion of our date! The more I got to know him, the more I learned he genuinely treated me with respect, which is all he’s ever shown me almost three years later.

I can go on and on about how Jake has the most incredible heart and is a good person to his core. How he could never hurt a fly. In fact, one of his groomsmen described the only way he could hurt someone as “hugging them to death.” He is the best partner, dog dad, friend, and husband that I ever could have prayed for.