#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

Our date was supposed to be April 24th. We rescheduled to September 18th. I'm hoping that all goes well for all of us

View Quoted Comment Hello Dana,
Our wedding was set for may 2 but we are just gonna go to the courthouse when they reopen. I live in New York and was supposed to move to Florida to join my fiancé after wedding but I’m a nurse and mandated to stay in the state of New York until this settles down. We will have a dinner celebration when the country gets back to normal and we can travel again. Good luck to you.

View Quoted Comment This is how I feel!
We are supposed to be married June 13, but unsure yet if we will need to/should postpone.
We are hoping for September because my dress is not going to be warm enough for a fall/winter wedding and I am NOT getting a new one! One of the bridesmaids just suggested postponing until next summer but I just don’t want to wait that long 😞

View Quoted Comment I know! I get people are trying to help but the ones that are telling me I may need to wait an extra year do not understand how sad that makes me! There’s just no way of knowing what to do right now!

View Quoted Comment I was getting married the same date as you but my venue said since they are technically not open they can't book me in but they penciled me in so no one can take my date so I'm going to try again July 17th 2021 I also have a beach wedding so there is only a small window to hold it. Good luck to you and I'm sure it will be a beautiful wedding

I'm scheduled for August 29th, and was really trying to hold out hope. Unfortunately, being more realistic, it won't be happening. Our venue won't let us postpone/cancel until closer to see what the governor does. But honestly, listening to the phases the government is using, there is no way my state will be in Phase 3 by then. At this point I'm just waiting to postpone..and praying my venue has availability in the summer of 2021, although that might even not be a possibility with what I've been hearing on the news.

View Quoted Comment Exactly 😞
We have been considering backup dates for this fall, one of them being Labor Day weekend, but I just found out that a huge teaching conference (Get Your Teach On) I was supposed to go to in June is being rescheduled to that weekend and I’m like noooooo - no I have to choose 😭

View Quoted Comment Yes for some reason I have this peace about it that it will be okay! All we can do is roll with the punches ☺️ I hope it works out for both of us!

Our wedding is scheduled on July 3rd in Chicago. We were also hoping to start having a family as soon as possible. Now, we’ve decided that we’ll get married this year in a courthouse with just our immediate families then do a renewal of vows and reception next year. No new date yet as we’re waiting on our venue to give their availability but all other key vendors have plenty of dates open for summer 2021.


It was hard for me to accept waiting another year initially and even followed the IHME model closely to give me some hope but in the back of my mind, I always knew that forcing it to happen this year will not be the same. My guests will be uncomfortable to travel even if I move it to the fall, and many of my family/relatives have underlying condition which put them in great risk. The reason we’re having a wedding is to be able to celebrate with the people dear to us (only have 100 guests). If we have all these worries on that day and a lot can’t show up, it just didn’t make sense to us. Every one I’ve talked to so far were very understanding and I can sense that they feel relieved by that decision as well. It was a process for me to arrive at this decision (in denial, at first) but it feels great now because I truly believe it is the right choice for us. My fiance has always been ok with pushing to next year as long as we legally marry this year.
To fellow brides who haven’t decided yet, it’s a hard and heartbreaking decision to make, it’s almost like going through the grieving process, so just give your self time to process what’s going on, think through your options and what’s important to you as a couple. Goodluck and wish you all the best!

View Quoted Comment We're September 6th and are feeling the same way. We're still moving forward with everything, but are trying to form contingencies with our venue and vendors.

View Quoted Comment My wedding day is Labor Day weekend... Sept 5! I want to assume everything will be okay, but some reports are saying this is going through the summer! There is just no way of knowing! I’m a teacher as well by the way! 😀 Definitely tough to choose! I’ve heard how great that conference is!

View Quoted Comment We’ve reached out to our venue but not our vendors yet. I probably should get in contact with them.

View Quoted Comment We haven't heard back from everyone, thankfully our caterer and DJ are best friends of my FH. Our photographer is an associate of his (he's a photographer as well), so we're confident they'll help with contingencies.

View Quoted Comment Agreed! It's all so daunting, hopefully things will workout 🤞🏽 I'm a planner, so I just feel better having a backup plan.

View Quoted Comment It’s all a good idea! I’m typically a negative person but for whatever this time I’m being weirdly positive it will happen. But I think this is the time I need to actually realize it may not happen and I need to have a backup plan!

View Quoted Comment I pride myself on being a realist (many see it as being negative), but I'm positive our wedding will happen...still, better safe to plan ahead, than sorry waiting until shortly before. We haven't picked a contingency date yet, just conversed and corresponded with our venue/vendors about policies and possibilities

View Quoted Comment No that’s definitely being a realist... I just am more negative than being qualified as a realist. I’m in NYS... 8 hours away from NYC where it’s the worst... I’m waiting to see where we are at May 15th when we are re-evaluating if we are opening up into Phase 1 yet. That will be very telling to see where we are at and what my next step is.

We were supposed to have our big wedding on June 12th, and just officially broke the news to our guests yesterday that we were postponing.

After getting over the initial shock and heartbreak, though, both of us are actually so excited about the new plan! We are lucky that our church has agreed to allow an intimate ceremony (us, parents, and sister, and priest who is marrying us) on our original wedding date. We are working with our vendors for a new date for our big celebration. We'll have a vow renewal ceremony in front of all of our guests (it is very important to both of us to still involve them) and will then have our wedding reception as originally planned!

Definitely not what we've dreamed of, but both of us are just so excited to be married. It'll make an excellent story to tell years down the road, and now we have two special days to look forward to!

Do not despair, brides! We can still create beautiful memories, even if they aren't what we had originally planned!

We are going to be postponing our Sept 25 wedding until next May. While I think things are going to be “fine” by that date, I don’t want people to have to social distance, wear masks, be afraid to hug, shake hands or dance close to each other. Also, most of my guests have to travel by plane to get to the venue. Not worth risking anyone getting sick and I don’t want them to feel uncomfortable the entire time their at my wedding.

Yea we were planning on getting married 7/8 of next year but the place we wanted said the date was taken because the couple getting married this year decided next year