#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

View Quoted Comment Sounds like month of May in NY (not downstate NY) will see manufacturing and other essentials open. I would say by June 1 Cuomo will enter Phase 1 as outlined by Trumo which allows restaurants to let people dine in but with restrictions, 10 person gathering, etc. Maybe by July central and upstate NY can get into Phase 2 with 50 person gatherings..maybe by August Phase 3?


Would say downstate NY will be at minimum a month behind the rest of the state which probably means no big weddings until maybe September?

View Quoted Comment Hi I’m a 10/10/2020 bride also in South Carolina and I pray everyday it will get better so we can all enjoy our special day

View Quoted Comment Amen my friend

Our original wedding date was 03/20/2020. We had to cancel our wedding with only four days to go and two days before the rehearsal dinner. We had to undue 18 months of planning in the matter of 3 hours. Traumatic was an understatement. The Only positive side was our venue was very helpful in helping us choose our new date of 11/07/2020 which was my grandparents wedding anniversary and very special to me. I waited one month to see how the pandemic was trending and my anxiety got the best of me and we decided today to postpone yet again to 11/12/2021. I’m marrying my high school sweetheart of 9 years and I’m so ready for our next chapter, but it was also really important to me to have the wedding I dreamed of. I didn’t want to spend the next 8 months waking up in anticipation of a possible second wave in the fall. I definitely think the decision of postponing a wedding falls on the priorities of the bride and groom. At the end of the day, it is your wedding and no one can take that away or tell you what to do.


Best of luck my fellow brides. Whether you’re getting married in 2020 or waiting until 2021, we WILL get through this!

I postponed mine a year. September 26 would've been our day. It was hard because i had my heart set on our anniversary date. Now it'll be September 25 next year. It was too stressful to continue to plan not knowing what would happen and especially considering a lot of my family and guest are all high risk. I'd say postpone it and just look at it as more time to plan your amazing day.

Ours was supposed to be 4/24/20. We rescheduled to 9/18/20. We will see what happens. Hope that all goes well for you

I’m August 29th in NYC. My fiancé & I decided to postpone our reception. Things are pretty bad here and since we have people traveling from out of state, we thought this is best choice. We are still getting married on our original date. The governor has put in an executive order where we can obtain a marriage license through video chat.


Zoom wedding here we come! 😅😅

We postponed our wedding till next year June 19th 😞. Only had 59 days left 😭 Thinking about doing justice of peace but not sure.

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View Quoted Comment I hate to be a negative but I would cancel. I was supposed to get married in September but I’m cancelling. The borders in Jamaica are closed till
31st May. Cases keep going up on the island. And there’s 14 day quarantine if you fly there and that’s for Jamaican Nationals or people who live there. I don’t see the island being open until September and that’s what Tourism minister said as well.

We live in NYC and based on everything that’s happened and is currently happening we decided to officially postpone our wedding today. Our original wedding date was July 5th, 2020 and our new date is June 27th, 2021. We were given the option for this October, but we are fearful of a second wave, so we opted to move everything to next year. It was such a hard decision to make, but it was the right one and now that it’s done we can move on and feel so much better. My thoughts are with everyone who is going through this! xoxo

Our wedding/reception was planned for May 8. At the beginning of April, we decided to cancel the big wedding, have an intimate ceremony with immediate family, and hold a reception down the line. Which was good, because our venue became closed on our date, with the extended shut downs. We are ready to be married and start a family, so we didn't want to wait another day to be married. We're getting married in my parents' backyard. We were able to reschedule our venue for our year anniversary, and the catering and DJ jumped on board, too. So, at least we'll have a celebration at the venue we originally intended. We don't plan to invite guests to it until a few months down the line, though, because we just don't know what the world or our schedule will be like.

Hey Caroline!

Our original date was 5/23 and we postponed until 9/5 but I am curious to see once the world starts to open back up again, what the new restrictions as far as large gatherings will be. If theres still a limit we decided to use our wedding money to invest in a home and just elope in the woods. Better everyone safe

View Quoted Comment Hi Tay! I am very curious as well. Eloping sounds so appealing to me over these last few days lol. Too much wedding stress but I’m trying to just think about it less and less. If there’s still a limit to social gatherings by July, we’ll likely postpone to spring of next year. Hoping that’s not the case, but if it is, we’ll be mentally prepared for it. I feel like this virus has just sucked all the fun out of everything which makes me sad for all 2020 brides. Hang in there ladies! I’m thinking about you and praying for us all!

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My fiance and I are doing something similar to you, getting married on our original date and having a sort of a 'renewing vows' ceremony next year. Can I ask, did you send out another card/invite with your new date? I'm struggling on what to put on it seeing as it's not really a 'change the date'.

View Quoted Comment We sent out 'save our new date' cards. If you happened to order your original save the dates or invites though Zola, then they will send you postponement cards for free!

Our date is October 10th. I hope our plans can stay as is, but we just don’t know.

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Oh, good to know! And did you or are you going to send out new rsvp cards? Ours are stilling coming in for the original date so I'm unsure what to do.

View Quoted Comment We already had all of ours back before we changed the date, so we're planning to send out new invites with the info and then have people rsvp on our websites. We figured that would work since we already know what they're eating and just need to know if they're coming.

My wedding is in October and I’m worried we’ll have to postpone it. 😔