August Brides who still hasn't made up their mind?

I’m an August bride as well! (August 29) and I’m getting married in Santa Barbara which isn’t too far from LA. My fiancé and I have decided to wait until June to make the decision of postponing or not. All of our vendors are also hopeful that things will be “fine” by then. I have a party of 100+ guests and therefore also taking that into consideration because I really don’t want to un-invite guests when all those guests all very close family members

Date twin! I am August 1, but in Iowa. We are slowly starting to open things up here so I am hoping things will be good. We do have a big wedding (300ish). We've decided if we have to we will go with less people. We are holding out until the end of June to make a final decision. I am still sending my invites this week (with a little postcard inside).

View Quoted Comment I’m Iowa too and we are waiting for June!

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Where at in Iowa are you?

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The uncertainty is stressful! yes we have planned 200+ so we would have to reduce to half which is not what we wanted but also dont want to postpone until next year.

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Awww ... Oh I see like a disclaimer? If you do have to reduce the invitees how will you let them know?

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Hopefully we here good news before hand.

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Yes it's a little business card that says "At this point, we are told an August wedding will be safe. Please RSVP and book your accommodations as you normally would, but check for a lenient cancellation policy (which most hotels are happy to provide in light of current events!). That being said, the safety of our guests is our utmost priority. Please continue to check our website for updates. We will keep you updated if anything changes in relation to our wedding day. Continue to stay safe and we can't wait to celebrate in August! With love, Caila and Jordan"

If we have to reduce the number of people, we will send a Facebook message, text, or email saying something like "Over the past few months, the world has turned upside down. We’ve all had to make some really hard decisions, and that includes us. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we have to reduce our guest list dramatically to adhere to mandated numbers of people gathering so our wedding can go on. We are so sorry to have to do this, but at this point, we have to cancel the invitation to our __________ wedding. We hope that you understand that this is a drastic measure we never expected to have to make. We love every single person we invited to our wedding, and this is heartbreaking for us."

Hey! I’m August 28th in PA and we’re going forward with everything as planned for now! I feel like the only choice I have is to wait it out for now and see where we are come next month.. good luck with everything !!

Hi Martha! Things change so quickly that any time you can wait a few more weeks and monitor the situation I'd take it! I think your end-of-May date to reevaluate sounds right on!

Here are a few other discussions where I've seen August & CA brides sharing their plans:

August Bride- Riding it out...

Any ca Brides Postponing Wedding Again?

California Brides

Anyone in the NYC area in August? Our venue in Jersey City just gave us August 14 as a backup to our original July 11 date. Not sure if I should bother holding out hope for July, make the shift to August or just push it into next year all together 😭

Our venue just called to let us know they are postponing all weddings this summer. We honestly could not be any more relieved. The stress, uncertainty, and obsessively watching the news was just torture. We will have a small ceremony on August 14th, no matter what, and will have our big celebration at the venue on February 14- exactly 6 months later!


So excited about having two dates to celebrate! I guess this means I can go buy another dress for our intimate ceremony 😉 I’ll wear the glam ballgown for the reception! We also are saving money by moving the reception to the off season. Lots of silver linings. It’s a good day!

I’m also getting married on August 1st in Atlanta. Me and my Fiancé have been going back and forth for months trying to decide if we were going to postpone our wedding. We were also waiting until June to make a decision however tonight we decided to postpone. Unfortunately cases in GA due to the way we have opened have skyrocketed by 40%. I don’t see it getting better within the next few weeks. My fiancé’s parents don’t feel comfortable attending any large gatherings and I can’t imagine getting married without my elderly grandmother who I know even if things somewhat get better by August still won’t be able to attend. We may be postponing the celebration but we will still get married on our date. Just something extremely small with our parents and siblings. Our celebration isdecided that this is best because we don’t want uninvited guests as well. We want to celebrate with all of our loved ones and want everyone to be safe.

We just made the decision to postpone our 8/8/20 wedding in Seattle to the following August. We are already legally married and we did not want to risk our friends and families being guinea pigs (50% of guests are traveling from out of town) during this summer’s reopening. While this is not ideal by any means, all of our vendors were still available for the following summer and we ultimately feel relieved. We want the day to be about love & joy, not angst and social distancing. Hoping by next year we have much better hold on everything. Good luck to all you beautiful brides and please stay healthy & safe!

View Quoted Comment I am in westchester! We just postponed our August 14 reception to February 14. Push it to next year. You’ll be relieved. There is just too much uncertainty and no scenario where things look or feel normal this summer 🥺 I always try to have the “stay positive” mindset but I think we should all be realistic ❤️ We’re all going through this together and the time will fly by like it always does!

View Quoted Comment You’re so right, I keep thinking that more and more. It’s heartbreaking but not dealing with this stress and having everything go the way we want it to next year would be so worth the wait!

View Quoted Comment Sorry but I don't see any way that August is happening with over 50 guests in the Tri-State area. Even Rhode Island with a minimal number of cases has said June and July highly unlikely for 50+. We are close to pushing our August date back a year. We are getting married in Nassau County and they may not even be in Phase 1 until late June

View Quoted Comment My wedding is set for August 1st as well and I rescheduled a few days ago for next year. My venue is already booked up through November so I got lucky and was able to get the last Saturday in September 🤷🏾‍♀️ I was originally going to wait until June but I don’t see things getting better in a month and my venue currently is closed. They aren’t opening until July and as of now they have a restriction of 10 people only. I’m to anxious to even wait it out so I just rescheduled and since then I’ve been anxiety free 🙏🏾

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This may be an odd question but it is a concern of mine .. I’m getting married August 28th (as of now) and is anyone else concerned that masks will have to be worn at their wedding?

Yes, I am so concerned about this. I asked my planner and she said there should be guidelines for events in Napa/Sonoma (where our wedding is) coming out early June. She said she anticipates staff/caterers, etc. Having to wear masks and it would be encouraged but optional for guests. I sure hope that is the case because mandating my wedding party and my guests to wear masks is a deal breaker for me.