Brides forced to make last-minute alternative plans after wedding venue floods

TAYLOR MILL, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) – Brides are being forced to make tough decisions after a wedding venue flooded in northern Kentucky.

Morning View Meadows in northern Kentucky was flooded five feet deep, destroying tables, chairs and windows, leaving the brides nowhere to say “I do.”

Amy Walker with Morning View Meadows said she woke up to rising floodwaters in the reception hall on Saturday, which was already set up for Brittany Schwartz’s wedding.

“Definitely could have cried a lot, but we laughed because what else can you do? No tears are going to change anything except add to the flood,” Walker said.

Schwartz, Walker and their families trekked through freezing cold floodwaters for hours to salvage as much as possible.

“We have heard a lot of, ‘Rain is good luck on your wedding day,’ and I’m like, ‘well, we got flooding, so this has got to be the best luck you can get,‘” Schwartz said.

Schwartz and her fiancé changed their plans last minute and got married in their childhood church.

They’re now on their honeymoon in Hawaii – a pleasant escape from the flooding back home.

Walker said she had to cancel two other weddings due to the flood damage, which she is still working to clean up.

Another bride, Madison Poirier, had been planning her wedding to her high school sweetheart for over a year.

“I imagined this being a relaxing week leading up to the wedding, but now I have to go through that whole process again,” Poirier said.

Morning Meadows was Poirier’s dream venue, and she says it is sad to see the damage the floods caused.

“There’s a ton of things in weddings that can go wrong, but this is not something that even crossed my mind,” Poirier said.

The venue has begun a GoFundMe to help with the $20,000 in damages from the floodwaters.

Walker says she is working hard to ensure no other brides have to be affected by this.

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