#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

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My wedding was planned for May 30. We have since postponed to October 2021. I'm with you that most family members and friends will need some time to get back on their feet as most are traveling from out of state. Best wishes to you and yours

I postponed mine until October 3,2020
To make sure friends and family are safe!

View Quoted Comment Hi Kendra!
I hear you about not wanting to postpone too much longer. I know a lot of people are rescheduling for 2021 but I honestly cannot wait that long. For me, I want to be married, enjoy the experience of being married, and start to have a family, 2021 would be entirely way too long, and I don’t feel like it would be right for me nor my guests at that time. I was and still consider myself a May wedding bride like you (date was May 30th) and we postponed until October 31 2020. I’m hoping to be legally married on May 30th or around that date if I’m not able. Also- for people postponing to 2021- who knows if there will be another virus that hits us at that time? There are so many uncertainties I think I’m just mentally preparing that the day I had envisioned will not be exactly the same as I wanted for my wedding day. At the end of the day, we all do what is best for each of us and our loved ones! Good luck with your August wedding!

Getting married tomorrow! We kept the same wedding date but postponed everything else for the reception for a later date. It’s going to be a really small ceremony outside with less than 10 people. I have a large family so we will be using Zoom for people to watch. Making wedding favors face masks too. The hardest part is my parents aren’t able to come since traveling is so risky right now. I have one brother who will be able to come and give me away so focusing on the silver lining of having some family there.

View Quoted Comment Same here for you. I am wishing for the best of all of us for all our wedding because with COVID19 it making some of us very upset and a little stress.

View Quoted Comment Hey Jessica, we decided to postpone the date in mid-March. Where are you located? I’m in Plano, just north of Dallas. Dallas county has pushed the shelter in place through May 20th. I hope you’re staying safe out there!

Honestly I dont know how to feel or move I just stopped everything. It's really sad to have your joyous emotions of planning a wedding halted without nothing you can do. Then again I really feel awful for those who lost loved ones innocently. It's alot to deal with especially since we are still in the high midst of things, my wedding is in September and I really hate the thought of postponing to 2021. Waiting an entire year again feels so unfair. I'm stuck because my fiance feels we should postpone because of the whiplash the virus will have on the economy, guests finances and just overall craziness with the new normal since operations/ travel etc will be chaotic. Also my in laws dont live in the US so that's another hurdle for me. I'm just really trying to stay calm, hold faith and pray everything works out for the best, despite feeling like my wedding excitment is fading.

View Quoted Comment My wedding date was may 9 too..I don’t feel like planning anything’s but our venue and vendors won’t give us our money back.

View Quoted Comment Hi Cherie. We are Close to you guys. June 20 in Alaska and we all have to travel there. We too have no idea what to do. Airlines only offering free flight changes til May 31 traveling dates. My fiancé has convinced me to wait til May 1 to decide and follow cue from airline. Currently though Alaska is on 2 week quarantine so if that keeps up we have our answer for sure. I’m so sorry you too are going through this. And to everyone is have to postpone.

Well we finally pulled the trigger and postponed our May 17 wedding to August 16 of this year it was causing us a lot of anxiety and stress and sadness but now we feel a lot better knowing it was the right thing and we still plan to elope on our original date if all goes well 💜

Our wedding is scheduled for August 22, 2020, so I suppose we have to mid May to see if it can still happen. Holding out hope we can proceed as planned. We’re having it at our house, approximately 60 guests, so as long as travel is safe (we are in California, lots of friends/family coming in from the South) I think we’ll be ok. Not even being able to get a marriage license right now is crazy...

My wedding was in Vegas on 04/20 and the venue cancelled. We decided not to reschedule and will use the remaining funds towards building our home. We will still get married at my FH's church on our date and live stream it to our guests.

My wedding date was for June 13th. My Fiance and I would have been engaged for 19 months,so the thought of pushing the date back even further was hard. We decided to push it back to Oct. 3, 2020. No matter what 10.03.2020 will be our wedding date, because we don't want to wait till next year.

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Yeah, it's tough. Especially if there's wording in the contract that they're trying to use to keep it.

Most of our vendors fortunately only had a small deposit. And we're going to try and use them elsewhere if we can (florist for centerpieces at our "celebration" dinner later in the year, photographer at our courthouse wedding and park for wedding day pictures).

We have been trying to get our money back from the venue, since it wasn't an issue driving the distance there for a ceremony/reception but is really too far of a location for just a nice meal. They haven't wanted to give us our money back yet either. FH has been fighting them on that, and seems to think they'll give us back at least most of that so we'll see

View Quoted Comment Hi Isabella,


My fiancé and I have our date set for 6/6 - so a week before yours. Same here with our venue - they’ve asked us to not postpone until the last week of April/first week of May. I did speak with our event coordinator earlier this week and now emailed her today to see what, if any, dates for the remainder of 2020 are available. I’ve had to deal with people asking about our date as well - it’s frustrating to say the least. Hang in there! Our plan B is to get married on 6/6 with our parents and siblings gathered around, and have our reception on a different date. It’s obviously not what we planned for, but just have to roll with it

We just decided to postpone. Our wedding was supposed to be in June but we didn’t want to take any chances. New date 10/10/20!!

My wedding was suppose to be May 22, 2020, but we decided today to postpone it until May 21, 2020. 😭

Has anyone not postponed? Venues will not refund. We tried cancelling because we need the money now and would rather do something smaller. We live in nyc and job loss is real.

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Ours is 9/19/20 We are trying to decide what to do, but I think we will postpone to 2021. Which is heart-breaking Everything is planned and we had an 18 month engagement, so pushing that out a year is a frustrating thought right now. Even though things will likely be better by this Sep (assuming there sin't a second wave literally right then) , a lot of things might not be - can we still have a buffet, will the older people not want to come, will people fly in, will there be dancing?! It's also so frustrating that this summer, which was supposed to be full of fun events like bridal showers, bachelorette parties, and general pre-wedding festivities is just not going to look like that. Do we postpone so we can get the whole experience? It's so hard not to know what is going to happen! I'm basically angry and sad everyday. How are you guys coping with this?

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I'm with you! When i first started thinking about how this would affect our Sep 2020 wedding, i couldn't make any decisions or talk about it at all. It's so frustrating! And now, we are thinking we probably have to postpone to next year, but it's so hard to accept that fact when we were 6 months away! Good luck to you in your quest to stay calm and sane. I'm freaking out over here, but I'll try to be more like you