#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

View Quoted Comment It was a personal choice. I didn’t want to have a wedding in the winter months and April was the last month before the prices went up and at the end of April it gets alittle warmer and we plan on getting married on the property of the venue 💜 they also said in the winter there may be round 2 of the corona virus aswell.

Me and my fiancé decided to postpone until next October since this October doesn’t seem possible it’s a extremely hard decision I hope your figure out the right choice for your self stay safe

I am holding out hope for my July 18 wedding. It’s been super stressful but my vendors have been amazing and still on board for this date. At this point, if many don’t show up I’m okay with that. I will be 36 and my fiancé 48 so we don’t want to wait another year to get married, we want to start having kids. If my church doesn’t want to open it’s doors, they have a huge grassy area outside where we can do the entire ceremony and reception. Next year we may have just one big reception at a yacht club on the beach to celebrate our one year anniversary. I hope all of us brides will get the opportunity this year to get married.

We are seeing what they say end of april. Then canceling for a small ceremony on that day because we want to be married that day and dont want to wait another year. We may do a “wedding party” later

Our wedding is scheduled for Sept. 5th in PA at the moment. Invites need to go out by mid-June because of our room block deadline. Feeling very torn at the moment! Our one big saving grace is that we were already planning on a small wedding with 35-45 guests....but I am fearful that even some of those guests won’t feel comfortable. All of our vendors are booked....however, today I am going to contact our venue to see what they suggest. I hate feeing so up in the air!

My wedding date is supposed to be June 13. We booked the Japanese Garden at a local park (special to me because my family is Japanese - I was really happy we were able to book it). At the end of March, all the parks in our county announced they would be closed through the month of April & they just announced the closure will be extended through the month of May as well. So even if they DO reopen for the month of June, we won’t know until the end of May and that just doesn’t give us a lot of time.
We have talked with all of our vendors about postponing and can potentially reschedule for August 30, but the Japanese Gardens are booked until October so we would lose out on the gardens 😞 They are the only vendor unavailable that day & I’m apprehensive about doing it in the fall because of the predicted 2nd wave. And because even here in CA, fall starts to bit colder and rainier - not ideal for outdoor ceremony.
Our reception venue would still be able to host the ceremony, but it would not be the typical “wedding” setup....all the guests would be seated at their reception tables during the wedding so some would have to turn their chairs just to watch the ceremony. Definitely not ideal. But I’m wondering if that’s better than postponing everything to next summer because that just feels so far away! At the same time, we still have a lot of tasks for the wedding that need to get done, but we haven’t been able to because so many stores/shops/vendors are closed 😔The alternative is we still try to get married in a small ceremony on our date, and just postpone the big wedding and reception until next year on our anniversary. I feel like it’s such a hard decision and I don’t know what the best move is!

Hello
Our Wedding is set for August 22, 2020 and we change it from July 11th and we're still going forward with our Wedding. My fiance and I don't want to change our date again, so we just praying for this pandemic to end way before then. And our guest list is about 90 people so far that list about accurate. 😁

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Date twins! We also spoke with our planner about a week ago and she said the same thing. Our venue is being flexible with everyone who unfortunately needs to postpone so should we need to I know our venue won't be an issue. I agree, we really didn't want a long engagement anyway so it would be annoying to have to postpone for another year. We specifically picked our date because its a Sunday which allows our more religious guests to attend, but also 98% of guests have off of work on that Monday so it will feel like a Saturday. Hopefully things do get better so we're definitely just crossing our fingers and sitting and waiting!

Ours is August 28th but I’m not sure if we’re going to postpone it yet. I still have a bunch of small details that require meeting with people. My dress hasn’t been altered. The guys don’t have their tuxes. I’m not sure what to do at this point.

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OUR WEDDING IS SEPTEMBER 18, 2020. i PRAY EVERYTHING GET BETTER PLEASE.

We just said screw it and went to American Ministries, just us, and got married on our day because it was our anniversary day and we didn't want to wait another year. People were upset but we plan on renewing anyways once we have the money saved, and then having a big wedding then. Only thing that sucked, was no honeymoon.

View Quoted Comment I pray every day, lady!!

Just decided to postpone today to June 12, 2021. Made the tough decision to just reschedule a year out from our original date June 13, 2020. It hurts but it was necessary. I don’t see things improving much in 6 weeks. I’m so ready to get married. Me and my FH discussed going ahead and getting married in June 12 of this year. So the ceremony and reception next year will be a 1 year anniversary celebration/vow renewal. But idk...

View Quoted Comment Hey I saw that your wedding was in June and you just canceled it. I was wondering if you lost any money for this? (I assume you had the whole wedding paid off, or majority of it, did you get anything back? Maybe not the deposit but the rest is the payments?

View Quoted Comment We did get our money back for the venue we had just paid the remaining balance the first of March. The only thing we didn’t get back was the deposit, but that was in our contract when we signed it last year. I was afraid if I we waited until May though and they didn’t open I couldn’t get any of my money back from the venue. I wish you the best ❤️.

View Quoted Comment My venue told us if we want to change it to 2021, we have to pay $1k reschedule fee, and different pricing for 2021, which is doubling we are paying now

July 12, 2020 not canceling unless the venue suggests it. So far they said we are good to go! I’m still planning still sending out invites. Hopefully every one can make it

My wedding is same date. I haven’t sent out invites but at this point, I’m just going to plan my wedding for July. If some guests don’t come, I’m fine with that. At this point I just want to be married, my fiancé and I are older and want to start having kids we don’t want to wait another year.

View Quoted Comment Thanks Danielle!! Yes, totally agree and all the best to you ☺️☺️

Our wedding was scheduled for October 2nd, 2020. At best we're hearing October *should be* okay, and at worst we're hearing there could be a second, worse wave in the fall. Even if it is, things will need to be better before I send out invitations in late June. And with so many people protesting Safer at Home orders and prematurely opening businesses again, I'm not confident we'll have it fully under control.


Between concerns for just not knowing, many of our guests having to travel from out of state, and one of us out of a job since March making it hard to pay off our vendors, we just got done switching our date and vendors to October 1st, 2021. It sucks, but if I kept our original date I know I'd be stressing and constantly watching statistics for the next 6th months.