Wedding Still A Go This Weekend For Black Forest Fire Evacuees
LARKSPUR, Colo. (CBS4) - Brides-to-be are scrambling this week as popular wedding venues in the Black Forest have been evacuated due to the Black Forest Fire.
They are learning early that life, like in marriage, is what you make of it.
An auction barn at a cattle ranch is not at all what one bride-to-be envisioned for her big day.
"But you never know with life what it's going to throw at you," Tia Wieland told CBS4 on Thursday.
The fire closed and may have burned the venue she chose to celebrate her wedding on Saturday.
"So we made a Plan B for my parents house," Wieland said.
"Then we received a mandatory evacuation phone call and the first of all the relatives had just started showing up so we just grabbed all the wedding stuff," her mom told CBS4.
Plan B was no longer an option. And then came more worrisome news.
"My parents-in-law are also in the fire area," Wieland said.
Between packing and evacuating, Wieland said she's just hoping they start hearing some good news about the firefight.
They scrambled to find somewhere to celebrate on Saturday, and they have settled on a cattle ranch. Cows will be greeting the 220 guests. There will be barn doors, a cattle washing station and a watering hole.
"It's just a party and we'll be married," Wieland said.
When Wieland and her fiance say their "I do's" they will be looking toward their homes and the blaze, but most of all they will be looking at one another.
"We know what it's going to be like to maybe lose a home, but at the end of the day we have our people and it's all material possessions and people are what's important."
