2020 Covid Brides!

We decided to keep our 9/12/20 date because we were already planning a small wedding (around 50 people), Covid Numbers have been trending in the right direction in our state for a while now, and we have already been planning for 19 months and are ready to get married! If we had to postpone, we agreed to elope on our date with just our kids and celebrate with a vow renewal next year, but I’m grateful we can still have our wedding this year.

We postponed from November 2020 to November 2021. While the process has been incredibly annoying and frustrating, we felt that it was the right thing to do for the health and safety of our guests.

I agree, it’s all about couples choosing what is right for them on their big day! Unfortunately, this pandemic has thrown all 2020 couples for a crazy loop, and there are no right or easy choices when it comes to this decision. For us, postponing was best. We had already spent over a year planning every little detail of our wedding, and knew that having a “Covid compliant” wedding would require us to cut our guest list, potentially put ourselves and our guests in harms way (if anyone even felt safe enough to come!), would require people wearing masks and distancing themselves from others, no dancing, no hugging... that would NOT be the celebration we dreamed of having, and doing so felt like a complete waste of tons of money. So we decided to postpone until Fall of 2021, in hopes that we will get to have the wedding we both really want!

My fiance and I decided to postpone our July 2020 wedding to July 2022. For the safety of our guests (many of whom were traveling in from across the country), and also because our wedding wasn't shaping up to be what we planned for/wanted (thanks to COVID), we felt postponing was best in our case.


I'm so happy for everyone who is able to still keep their dates this year! You are 100% correct that your wedding is about you and your fiance, and about the love and commitment you share. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding!!

We postponed from 10/10/20 to 10/30/21. We’re having a destination wedding weekend in Vegas. So after FH and I sat and listed out the pros and cons, the decision to postpone was evident. But I’m still very excited and time is already flying by. Plus everything happens for a reason and I actually love our new date more than the first one. Congrats!!!

We are still getting married on our date of 10/17/20, but it will be a very small ceremony with our parents and 3 other family members. An intimate dinner will follow. We are still going to have a big wedding (vow renewal) 11/6/21 with all our guests to celebrate.

Instead of marrying on our original may 9 2020 date we did may 16fh. We had to downsize from 92 people to 7. Our plan B: outdoor garden ceremony and reception at our apartment. We didnt want to postpone. Cant see Covid going anywhere anytime soon. But each person has to do what's best!

Original date was May 3, 2020 and we postponed to August 16, 2020 and we got married. It was the best day ever but we did lower our guest count and had it outside with our closest family and friends. We decided not to postpone for the same reason you are we just didn’t want to keep prolonging the planning process

Our date of choice has always been 10/10/20 and we planned for a wedding in the Keys with a guest list up to 50 and we're still full steam ahead. The state is has not changed it's gathering size and I don't foresee it happening now. The ONLY thing that may be in effect which we're not thrilled about but we're accepting is having to have face masks. If that's our only obstacle in all this, then it's a win.

We're keeping Our Original Date Of 10/17 With Our Original 60 Guests. Masks Will Be Required But Thats All That Has Changed

View Quoted Comment Hi Taissa! Question, are you and FH offering the intimate dinner to your complimentary? We are doing something similar, small ceremony this year on our actual day with bridal party and immediate family (20p total) and I would love to go to dinner with everyone, and not sure how it would work to Not pay (since we are doing big reception next March) FH said we should just go eat alone lol I’m like, my family and bridal party don’t care if we pay or not they would come to celebrate but he thinks it would be funny to have them join and not pay

Both lol...we decided to do a smaller minimony with just our immediate families (1 sibling each and parents) around our original date (was October 3rd, now October 2nd) and we are going to do a Vow Renewal and have a larger Celebration in the Spring hopefully.

We are having our minimony this October with immediate families plus bridal party and then our bigger wedding next year. We decided we didn't want to wait anymore to get married and felt like it spoke a lot about relationship to push through such a crappy year (other events have happened besides the pandemic) and still at least get married when we planned. We'll celebrate with everyone else later on, but we wanted to take the next step as a couple now.

We're keeping our original date. Our venue and county does not have any restrictive mandates so if we had chosen to move the date we would have lost so much money and that's not something we could afford. Our ceremony was already planned to be outside, but we have also moved the reception outside and have taken extra precautions as well for our guests

My fiancee and I decided not to postpone our Sept. 26 wedding. We've been together for 8 years with a 2 year engagement, I was not going to wait another day. The venue is outside with tremendous space for guests to distance themselves. We have a guest list of about 150 people but right now we're only expecting about 100. We're spacing tables apart and creating a seating chart for everyone to sit with family or others they've been around anyways. The food is still buffet style but the caterers will be putting the food on plates so no one is handling utensils but them. We'll have hand sanitizer stations and Clorox wipes. We are doing our best but we're totally fine with guests still not comfortable to come. With everything that we already had to deal with in planning, we couldn't wait for other disasters to arise if we postponed.

I got married on original date July 17 in my backyard with 30 people I only pushed my party til next July as a 1 year anniversary party to celebrate with everyone I didn’t get to this year and be able to wear my dress. No vow renewal because a lot of people watched it on zoom. But to be completely honest with you I wish I could have gotten it all done this year because now I have another year of stress and worry about wondering if my party will be what I want so I say do it however you feel is right for you! Because you are right it’s about you two and no one else!

Our date is in December in my hometown. We really want to postpone, but our venue Is considered an “outdoor space” so technically they are within the CDC guidelines to host larger events (even though it is in the middle of winter). We were really only having the reception there to celebrate with our friends and family but now half of them will probably not be able to come and to be honest I don’t particularly feel comfortable going to my own wedding! Has anyone had difficulties with venues not allowing you to push your date?

We are keeping our 10/31 date and working with our vendors and venue to keep things compliant and as safe as we can. We had to cut our nearly 80 person list down to 50, but so far that has been our only hiccup aside from our original rehearsal dinner location closing for good. I waited over 8 years for him to propose, so waiting is not an option. Worst case, it is just my siblings and his immediate family in person (we have a virtual option available), I'm still marrying my best friend.

We're sticking with our 10/10 date and not postponing. We originally wanted a smaller wedding of about 40 people before COVID, but we now decided to cut it down to 25 people, so that wasn't much of a problem for us. We will be live streaming for the rest of our family and friends, which I'm actually super excited about because more of our families and friends/co-workers that weren't on the original guest list are now able to still watch virtually, and be apart of our day.

Other than that our venue and county have not been super strict. Just working with a few minor changes, like having servers for the buffet table, providing lots of hand sanitizers and masks, if guests wish to wear them, and spacing out tables and chairs. I will be having a full ceremony and reception, with dinner, cake cutting, speeches, and first dance!

We are keeping our original date (11-28-20) with some COVID friendly changes. We were already having a small wedding and we couldn't afford to reschedule or postpone (plus this pandemic seems to never end in this country so why keep rescheduling when things just keep getting worse!) so we are doing our best to keep us and our guests safe. Masks, hand sanitizer favors, smaller guest count (75 people as opposed to our original 120) spread out chairs, and a server for the food. Our ceremony is outside and our reception is indoors but will only be about 2 hours long and we are not having dancing since I don't like it and there is very little space to do so in our venue.