#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

My finance and I were just talking about this, ours is scheduled for Sept 20, 2020. We would have almost everyone coming in from out of state, but they will most likely be driving. We are mainly concerned about someone getting sick from coming to the wedding, we would both feel awful if that happened. I've been used to uncertainty in my future, but this is a whole new level. Sending good vibes to all of you!

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Thanks Alecia! Good luck to you too! I'm sure it must be very hectic for you right now as a nurse. Hopefully you're able to move and be with your fiance soon!

I was supposed to get married today and it’s been a sad day not being able to do so. We postponed our wedding to August 1st. As the weeks go on, we have also developed a plan B for next May. Although we wanted to start a family, get married, etc this year, we know that in August, there is a possibility we wouldn’t get the wedding that we worked so hard to plan. We will make the decision in a few weeks, but there is a sense of relief knowing that there is a back up! If anyone is feeling anxiety about their wedding date of this year, it really eased my anxiety when I reached out to my venue to develop a plan B. Not what we ever wanted (would would ever think that a 3rd wedding date would need to be planned), but we have solace in knowing we have a lifetime ahead of us to celebrate our love.

My wedding date is 9/19/20. I'm not sure if I should postpone it to next year or not.

View Quoted Comment I just moved mine from June to 9/18/2020. Hope you don’t have to move because then I would have to move twice

The issue for everyone is that the government's plan says you need to be stage 3 in order for events of 50 plus.. we dont know when phase 3 will even be realistic for many areas. I'm in NY and I'm putting the odds of my August wedding at less than 50%


So unless you are a 30 to 40 person wedding (need to factor in the venue staff and vendors), you really have to think if its realistic to be in phase 3 by July/August
It's also a drag because even if July /August is okay for gatherings, the virus has robbed a lot of people of enjoying bridal showers, bachelorette and bachelor parties, etc. We are way down our list of honeymoon locations because we doubt certain places are going to be allowing tourist from NY this summer

June 6 here, we are waiting until may 1 to decide. We just wanna get this done.

View Quoted Comment I’m right there with you girl! My wedding isn’t until October 10th but I am stressing about it now like I can’t just have certain people at my wedding my family is huge...I feel for the people that were supposed to have wedding now and I hope everything goes back to (somewhat) normal for everyone to enjoy there weddings!

We postponed our wedding until July 5th! But it will be a celebration of marriage and vow renewal. Thankfully we already had our marriage license before all this, so we got married March 21st with just our pastor and a few close family members outside where he proposed. At the end of the day we were ready to be married! And now I’m not even sure if the July date will be doable, our venue didn’t give us an option to cancel.

Our wedding is August 15th. We’re meeting with our venue Monday to put a date on hold in summer 2021 just in case. It hurts so much to know that this even has to happen. My fiancé and I have been having such a tough time with all of this. My mom just postponed my May 30 bridal shower to July 11 . I can only hope that my state will be in Phase 3 by August.

View Quoted Comment I know, I’m trying to remind myself there is still a little time to figure things out when there were so many that had to cancel so last minute! I’m Italian and my fiancé is Irish so we have huge families and friends that are like family! My wedding isn’t just about my fiancé and I... it’s a day to celebrate with our families! I pray every day that we all will get out happy endings!

Our original date was June 20th 2020. We have a lot of people who are immune compromised and/or elderly. We couldn't live with ourselves if something happened because they wanted to celebrate with us, and our location is in a state that hasn't done a shelter in place order yet.


Our decision was to try to get married and live stream it on our original date, but next year on the almost 1 year anniversary (June 19th 2021) have a full ceremony and celebration. Almost everything is already paid for and we can't get our money back--and we don't really want to give up hope that we can celebrate with family.
We are currently in back up plan mode and I'm trying to figure out how to print and mail the updates, but it will work out.
We just decided officially a little over a week ago, so it's still fresh. I tried watching a rom-com and it got to a wedding and I burst into tears.
I hope that helps you with your decision. This is a really hard decision and I wouldn't wish it on my enemies. My heart goes out to everyone who has to make this decision.
I hope you are healthy and safe!

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we will be getting married on the same day due the known circumstances.
We’re wishing you guys good luck

Our wedding is scheduled for August 30th in Chicago. IL. While we hope the world will have started recuperating, a few of our family members have voiced concerns about wanting us to change to a later date. For now, my fiance and I see no reason to change our date. If we do have to change our date, we'll more than likely have a smaller ceremony on August 30th for those who can come and maybe a reception at a later date. Or maybe just cancel the reception altogether and wait until we renew our vows to have a reception. Either way, we're trying our best to focus on us because we can't please everyone.

View Quoted Comment That's how me and my fiance feel! He's already been so patient with us putting off starting a family; I would hate for him to have to wait another year 😣

View Quoted Comment A family is inevitably my whole life goal! So this is just tricky. If I was younger and had to postpone of course it would make me so sad, but it’s so much harder now that I’m 31, almost 32!

Our wedding is in August to. We canceled ours 🥺

My wedding was set for August 22nd 2020. I live in Florida by the way. My fiancé and I have just opted to cancel! It was the most devastating decision ever to call our vendors and do that. My fiancé is also out of work... so factor that in as well. We are thinking of just having a small ceremony with just our families and then having a reception later on... possibly a year from that date. What do you think ladies? I have been looking far and wide for more 2020 Corona brides to talk to about this. I feel super alone, anxious and confused. We are still under the stay at home order and unsure when things will turn up!

My wedding date is November 15, 2020 but with how everything is going on right now I don't know if we will go through with the wedding factoring in the fact that everything is closed due to this pandemic and when everything is closed how are we going to get our plans done for the wedding that is coming up.Also hearing concerts might not be happening until fall of 2021 has really made me lose hope since weddings are considered large gathering as well.My fiancé and I are waiting til June to see how things are and if it gets better God willing we will push through with the wedding and if not we will have to cancel. Its so unfortunate that this pandemic had to happen let alone on all of our wedding year.

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This is exactly my thoughts. I've dreamed of having a wedding with my entire family and friends there for 36 years. So the thought of postponing a year and then trying to have a family is a hard decision for me to make. I know we don't need to wait until we're married to try and start a family, but my wedding dress is already paid for, and I want to wear it. This whole process to plan my wedding was supposed to be fun. But I feel so sad and so anxious and so stressed and I don't know what to do about it.