Brides of 2022!

We never received comments like the above; we did get a few comments on our destination saying we were selfish. I would just nod and say, I am sorry you feel that way... Lol so glad we were “selfish”, because it was so magical. 🤍🤍

When my fiance and I postponed from 2020 to 2022, we had a few people confused as to why we didn't choose 2021 (there were a few reasons), some thought it was a typo and that we meant 2021, and others thought 2022 was a smart idea.


If someone were to ask me, "Why so long??", I would respond with either something along the lines of, "It'll be worth the wait!", or something about wanting to make sure COVID isn't an issue, or even something along the lines of, "Because that's the date we chose! We're looking forward to it."

The only two people who had an issue were my dad and my stepmother so I just ignored them. All our friends and some family who will be traveling to the US are relieved to hear that we pushed it one more year.


Someone else who had an issue with this was the florist we hired. He was trying to make us keep our date also ignored him.

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It kills me when people think you're being selfish for having the wedding you want! Just because you didn't want your wedding to go like everyone else, doesn't mean your selfish! I'm glad you had the wedding you envisioned

We got some limited comments, especially because we got engaged in 2019. After the pandemic hit we've gotten quite a few comments of "we didn't understand why you were waiting, but thank goodness you did!" which has been kind of funny honestly.

I was actually very nervous to tell people we were engaged for this reason, and we waited about 3 months before telling most of our friends and family, but most people have been polite enough not to say anything to our faces lol

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Same. We used to explain that we know so many people that have postponed or cut the guest list down this year, that we didn't want to risk it in 2021! Everything is still uncertain and since our families would have to travel long distances, 2022 just made more sense to us!

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Yep, just have to ignore them sometimes! You have your reasons why you chose your date, otherwise you wouldn't have chosen it haha!

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Oh wow, that's good that you have some people that understand and are glad you chose the date that you did! I think most people are just suck on the idea that you have to get married a year after your engagement so a long engagement can be weird to them. But hey, times are weird and confusing right now so we have to plan around that!

View Quoted Comment Totally agree!! 2022 definitely seems to be a safer option at the moment. For us, we were concerned about COVID still being a threat in 2021, and if we were to postpone to 2021, we would have had to switch our date from a Friday to either a Thursday or Sunday. We intentionally picked a Friday wedding, so we were hoping to postpone to a Friday. Since we were concerned about the safety of our guests, and also because we weren't sure if we'd get the wedding we wanted in 2021, we figured 2022 was the better option. After the initial announcement to our guests, we got some questions/comments, but haven't gotten any since then.

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Gotcha! I think once the initial shock of a long engagement wears down, people start to either realize why you chose that route, or just decide to leave it alone haha! Good luck with all of your planning!

In the grand scheme, it’s really not a long time from now. 2021 will be here in another couple of blinks. Just shrug it off. Us fellow 2022 brides support you 💫!

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Thanks! That's what we have to remind our moms about haha. I think because we're still in 2020...2022 sounds so far off when reality is, it's just around the corner!

Yes! We got all of these responses/questions when we told people we were going to have a two-year engagement! I would just tell all of them that we wanted plenty of time to save and plan our wedding, and that we wanted to enjoy being engaged for awhile. After all, you only get the title “Fiancé” for a very short time, why not enjoy it!? (in hindsight, we should have listen to them and done a one-year engagement, because we would have already had our wedding and not had to postpone a year! Now we will have a three-year engagement 🙄)

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That's one of the reasons we gave as to why we're having a longer engagement. We'll be paying for most of it ourselves, so this will give us time to save up! I believe I read one of your previous posts about the longer engagement situation for you two! While it does suck, I am glad that you both get to enjoy that title for a little while longer. I know your wedding will be just amazing!!

I got engaged in June and some of our family members were shocked that we were planning on March 2022. Once we explained that we wanted to save up money and hopefully wait for COVID to be on the way out they understood our reasoning.

I am getting married in 2022 and I get the same questions for us it's a preference we are expecting number 9 in April of next year and I want to have time to adjust and 2022 hopefully will clear the pandamic

While my fiancé and I are not getting married in 2022... we've heard these types of comments for years.

We got together at the end of 2011, engaged in April 2017.. All we heard was, not engaged yet? Not married yet? What's taking so long?

Then after we got engaged, we didn't start planning our wedding until March 2019.. All we heard was, still not married? Why are you waiting? No kids?

Now that we've postponed to 2021, we haven't heard the comments as much, with just under a year to go, I'm sure we'll get some.

I wish people would just keep their comments to themselves and appreciate the fact that you are going at your pace and doing what is right for you. We've accomplished and overcame a lot as a couple and are happy with our decisions to take our time. I'm sure people probably assume it's because we've broken up and gotten back together or similar. That's not the case. We've never broken up or almost broken up. We basically tried to explain that we just took our time to get settled in our jobs/career and waited until money was better. Not that we owe anyone an explanation.

Do what is best for you and your future spouse. Don't let them bring you down!

You are smart to wait until 2022, hopefully all of this COVID crazy will be over by then! If I hadn't planned my wedding for 2020 and postponed twice already I would be waiting.

Not a 2022 bride but I think 2022 is when weddings will be safe again 🤣 keep your date ! Just say you wanna hug ppl at Your wedding 😉

YESSSS!!!! My fiancé proposed in 2019 and we decided we wanted to wait until 2021 to save up some money and take our time planning. And SO MANY PEOPLE made these comments and tried to pressure us into getting married this year instead. My response back then was unless you’re going to offer to pay for the wedding in that amount of time, we are keeping it the way it is. Now my response is remember when you pressured me SO HARD to get married this year? How would you feel knowing you’d have to be cut because of covid? And they don’t say a damn thing anymore.