When a December snowstorm sabotaged this Timnath couple's wedding, the town saved the day

Alexa and Jordan Jur had a small, simple courthouse wedding planned in Greeley on Dec. 22, with a few family and friends who would already be in town for the holidays — but then the weather threw a wrench in their plans.

The Timnath couple was supposed to get married in Greeley by Weld County Magistrate Mark Gonzales, but Alexa said he called them the day before to tell them the courthouse would be closed the next day because of an impending snowstorm.

“You don’t usually have a backup for a courthouse wedding,” Alexa said.

She said the judge still agreed to marry them the next day, but they had to find a new venue.

“I knew it would work out,” Alexa said. “We could get married in our living room in our Christmas PJs if we had to.”

Jordan checked a warehouse where he has a print shop and said he was even calling around to breweries. He said Alexa stayed calm — she credited her best friends for helping her not panic — but Jordan admitted to being a little frantic, even spending nearly $500 at Party City on random stuff he thought they might need for their relocated wedding ceremony.

While searching for a new venue, Alexa said she remembered their neighbors telling them how residents could rent the community room in the Timnath Town Center. Once the couple got in contact with town officials, Alexa said everything was smooth sailing.

“Everyone was just so willing to make our day so special,” she said. “... I think it turned out better than our original plan.”

Their friends and family helped gather poinsettias to decorate the community room in the Town of Timnath building, 4750 Signal Tree Drive, and turn it into a make-do wedding venue.

Alexa’s dad even got to walk her down the aisle — a part of the ceremony the couple wasn’t planning on including in their courthouse wedding.

“It was just perfect,” she said.

Their reception did go off as planned in the couple’s living room, with one added special guest: Jeff Stevenson, the man they heard playing guitar in DC Oakes Brewhouse in Fort Collins while out to dinner the night before their wedding. Jordan said they asked if he would play in their living room for a few hours the next day, and he agreed.

“We both like to be king of spontaneous,” Jordan said of the couple. “... This, piecing this together, it was pretty crazy.”

This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Timnath couple marries in town building after snow ruins wedding plans