August Wedding

Ours is a DW in Cancun August 8th.. and right now I’m honestly contemplating.. we went from possibly 50 guests to about 25 now.. which is mostly family and my best friends;(!!! I don’t know what to do either..;(

We’re not planning to make any decisions until end of July. I just feel like even if we go ahead with it, are there still going to be a lot of people who arent going to feel comfortable coming even if everything else is perfectly normal?

View Quoted Comment I’m leaning towards waiting it out a while too. I read Ohio is allowing weddings of up to 300 already so we’ll see. I’m also extending my guest list now since I know some will not come even if our state opens up.

View Quoted Comment I’ve been having to do a lot of self meditating to try and accept the fact our guest list may be a lot smaller

Girl breathe! I would reach out to your venue and see what your options are for peace of mind - ours told us they weren't postponing and not allowing us to, and they even had a wedding tonight! Once we realized the option was off of the table for us, it was a lot easier to breathe and realize that things will probably work out. Alternatively, they may give you some possible dates to put a soft hold on. Texas is raring to go, so it looks like we're good for 8/15.

View Quoted Comment Wow that makes me feel a lot more hopeful. Thanks! And my venue has been very understanding and has even let us hold off on payments so I’m not too worried about that part.

View Quoted Comment We were scheduled for 4/4 originally, so everything is paid off. Once they told us postponing was off of the table, both of us could kind of breathe again. We just realized that we'll have to have a Tim Gunn make it work attitude! Hopefully things will be good by then - we'll see!

TX should be ok in August. You may need to cut your guest list but you should be able to have your ceremony/reception. Not sure what social distancing or anything like that will look like in August though.


We're getting married in NJ on August 8th, 2020. We postponed our reception to August 2021 and will be having a small ceremony on our original date with family only at my parents house.
I'd recommend speaking with your venue and see what your options are. In the end you'll need to do what's best for you and your FH. I will tell you that this decision was not made lightly or easily. It was very difficult to decide to wait another year when we've already been planning our wedding for 2 years. While I'm glad we decided to postpone, it still hurts a little to know that we need to wait another year to celebrate how we had originally planned.

View Quoted Comment That’s probably a good plan. I’ve been starting to accept the fact it probably won’t look exactly as we planned it and that’s okay. We just can’t postpone again cause we don’t want to put our lives on hold another year. So we have to do it in August

We are getting married August 16 no matter what. We were originally supposed to get married today.

View Quoted Comment I hope everything works out well! I’m starting to think we should be ok.

My wedding is in october in elkton md. I reached out to my venue and they told me as of now they are only rescheduling into the first week of july. As thing change they will update their procedures and will reach out to couples that will need to reschedule. I say reach out to your venue.

I had to cut my wedding list down by half to accommodate restrictions for an August wedding in Kentucky. So that I can still include the people who are now uninvited, we are live streaming the wedding. Just an idea so that you don't have to postpone.

View Quoted Comment That’s a good idea. I’ll keep that in mind.

We are 8/8 in Metro Detroit, and we have yet to reschedule. Regardless of what happens, we will be legally married on our date. Odds are we will postpone the church ceremony and reception, but our two main vendors have been very understanding and willing to accommodate us!

I was supposed to have a ~120 person wedding in metro Detroit on 8/22/2020 and we ultimately decided to postpone because the dates open for our venue for 2021 were filling fast and we were afraid we wouldn’t be able to bump it later. Our venue also told us they couldn’t foresee a situation in which we could have more than 20 people by the end of the summer.

View Quoted Comment Wow! Our venue is not forcing us to move anything and they are remaining available until Whitmer says otherwise. They also said we won’t be penalized if we reschedule even if weddings are allowed. Ultimately, we know where this is headed though

We just made the decision to postpone our August wedding to next year. There are sooo many factors from the unknown of the second wave, older family members, asymptomatic worries, traveling....let alone our planning got halted. It was the best decision.

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Yeah, I agree, Jemiella - the biggest reason to postpone is that everything is unknown about how this disease will behave over the next few months. It literally is the case that no one on this planet could tell you unless they were just guessing. This makes it really stressful for people to try to attend a wedding, which requires planning on their part. They have to buy outfits and book hotel rooms and schedule travel...

I understand not postponing if you can't move the date with a vendor, or you are trying to get pregnant, or whatever reason. But, if a couple decides to keep a date this year, they should try to be compassionate to guests who aren't able or willing to take on all that uncertainty and possibly lose several deposits on plane tickets, AirBnB rentals, etc. if local governments order more shutdowns in Fall.

View Quoted Comment We have decided to keep our date even if it means cutting our guest list in half. Thankfully a lot of our guests are not traveling. We’ve also been thinking about the future and no one knows what new things we might face next year. We just want to get married and start our life!