{"id":270649,"date":"2026-04-29T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:32:08","slug":"bride-searches-for-new-venue-after-tornado-destroys-wedding-site-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270649\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride searches for new venue after tornado destroys wedding site in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bride-to-be&#8217;s wedding plans were upended when a tornado destroyed her venue, leaving her and three other brides scrambling to find new locations.<\/p>\n<p>SPRINGTOWN, Texas \u2014 Morgan Savera is getting married on May 30. WFAA caught up with the bride-to-be because she was in between appointments for something she did not have on her wedding bingo card: looking for a new wedding venue so close to her date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re frantic,\u201d Savera said.<\/p>\n<p>She now has to figure out where she, her groom, and more than 100 guests will watch her and her fianc\u00e9 exchange vows, since their venue, Covered Bridge Venue, has been destroyed. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/weather\/severe-weather\/powerful-storm-hits-north-texas-40k-without-power-90-mph-winds-springtown\/287-a4cb9a93-92a3-4e0a-a4c0-b2629dc191e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">EF-1 tornado hit Saturday night<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Savera received a call hours later from the venue staff, who said they had no choice but to cancel her big date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fianc\u00e9 \u2026 he\u2019s from Maryland, so his whole family already has flights and hotels. We\u2019re trying our best not to have to change the date,&#8221; Savera said.<\/p>\n<p>Savera is one of at least four brides who are working together to figure out the next steps. Many of the other brides who have weddings in May are now scrambling to find a new venue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CoveredBridgeVenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Covered Bridge Venue<\/a> hosts more than 90 events each year, mainly weddings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in our peak season,\u201d said. \u201cThis time of year, we\u2019re going Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owner Ricky Dauenhauer will have to cancel all of the events for the foreseeable future. He told WFAA that he will have to rebuild the entire venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in contracting, so this will likely take at least 18 months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The owner is counting his blessings. \u00a0He had two events scheduled on the same day the tornado hit, but they were canceled for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just keep thinking about the lives that were saved,\u201d an emotional Dauenhauer said as he pointed to the dance floor where the roof collapsed. \u201cThat\u2019s where everybody would have been dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Savera, she is also thankful. She said her fianc\u00e9, parents, wedding party, and entire community are rallying behind her to find a wedding venue before their big day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wedding community and the vendors \u2026 they\u2019re all reaching out to do their best to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid all of\u00a0Dauenhauer\u2019s rubble, there\u2019s a cross that still stands. It remained untouched during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a message that [says], \u2018Hey, I got this. It\u2019s alright. It always works out for the best.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bride-to-be&#8217;s wedding plans were upended when a tornado destroyed her venue, leaving her and three other brides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-270649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}