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ding site, some even hours before their
big day. Rigney and Cymbor considered
themselves fortunate, they still had eight
months before their wedding, but had to
fight to get their deposit back (it finally
came, not from the venue, but through
their credit card company). At that point,
they were able to start the search again
but needed to keep the exact date since
their photographer and band were already
booked. It felt so lucky when they found
their date was available at Main Street
Ballroom, an industrial space in the heart
of Ellicott City with The Tiber River
directly out its front door, cutting through
the parking lot. The venue had been built
after the devastating flood of 2016.
In the months leading up to the wed-
ding they contended with some serious
medical issues on both sides of their
immediate families, plus Cymbor was
traveling for work and Rigney was juggling
two graduate-level classes at Johns Hop-
kins University while working full-time.
As they crept closer and closer to their
date, they both felt more exhausted than
excited after so many months of planning.
Then there were the bigger warning signs:
Talking to co-workers one day about how
they had ended up in Ellicott City instead
of Baltimore City, Cymbor had quipped,
“Knowing our luck, we’re going to have
another crazy storm.” Rigney, an environ-
mental scientist, had even once worked at
McCormick Taylor, the very engineering
firm contracted by Howard County to
do a flood study after the storm in 2016.
But even with all that, “the odds of that
really happening seriously didn’t cross our
minds,” says Cymbor.
And then it was May 27th, a hot and
muggy Sunday afternoon. Despite the
heat, the two, along with their wedding
photographer Justin Johnson, trekked
all over Ellicott City taking their “first
look” photos, Rigney resplendent in her
tea-length gown, her hair pulled back into
a perfect chignon, with gorgeous art-deco
Rachel Simpson shoes on her feet, in the
perfect shade of blue. In some photos, the
bridal party crosses the street right in the
heart of the historic town, the skies gray
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