#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

Hi Rachel,

You definitely want to check the specific laws in your state and town but generally speaking, the legal risk for these type of businesses is always their exposure to people and property damage. This is why venues carry insurance and require off-premises vendors coming on to their property to have insurance to cover the costs of potential damages suffered should they arise. Any agreement that exempts wedding venues from being sued for negligence is deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. It may be a scare tactic to keep you from suing, but ultimately there are reasonable standards of care that the venue and other vendors on premise must take to protect its guests. Check the federal, state and local laws to know what the minimum standards are but that clause in your contract probably won’t shield the venue much from getting sued in the event they do not comply with health and safety regulations.

View Quoted Comment Elle! I’m sure you are enjoying our good news! Your counties and mine were announced yesterday!!!!! Our wedding prayers have been answered!!! I’m so happy for us and other PA brides on this amazing news 🥂🍾🌸🌺🥰

We were originally going to keep our July date after our venue gave us the green light to have our wedding, though after a lot of discussion, we decided to postpone, since a lot of our guests would be traveling in from states that are seeing large COVID spikes at the moment. It was a tough decision, but we think it was the right decision for us.

I sort of wish we had decided to post-pone. Ours is on 7/28, it was already small at just 22 people. And then it went down to 14 when COVID hit, because those family were coming in from Korea. Last month my mom let me know she doesn't feel safe traveling with her pre-existing conditions and said she would just like to stream it. Now with everything in the air with the military members of our family, there is a chance four more people can't make it if the restrictions aren't lifted - which we will find out hopefully the first week of July. That takes us down to 8 people including us, two of which are under 5 (if they even come - they may stay in Texas - leaving us with 6 people). Our honeymoon in Japan is cancelled and while we wanted to plan a mini-moon, FH can't go anywhere with the DoD restrictions. I considered inviting local friends (we initially were family only) but after a lot of consideration we decided that might be rude to them and hurtful to our close friends all over the country who can't come.

Definitely feeling a little defeated.

We eloped yesterday at our church with my stepdaughters and our best friends as witnesses and photographers. We had to postpone our beach wedding in Turks & Caicos. I ordered a $79 dress from Lulus.com, made my own flowers and had a beautiful and blessed day. It was really, really meaningful so I hope this brings hope to everyone who decides to elope! We are still having our 1st Anniversary party in a year in Turks & Caicos.

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Yes! I'm so happy! I've been checking news and statuses every day haha. When I read the news on Friday, I texted like 4 people to tell them we are going green, and they had no idea what I was talking about. I was like, ".... Am I the only one paying attention to the phases???!" Haha - "Probably just Katie from WW and me!"

I am so happy for you, Katie. I am happy for all of us. Our weddings are a go! Good luck to you. Please feel free to PM me, so we can stay in touch about our PA wedding plans!

Original wedding date was June 28th, we postponed to November 28th and got super lucky with basically all vendors being available.


There is still a lot of fear and hesitation with travel for guests. Anybody in a similar situation with close to half of the people traveling? Do you have a strategy for deciding? I’m worried nobody will show up from my bridesmaids group and I can’t be mad at that.

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We're in a similar situation, Nicole - postponed from June 27th to September 26th, and something like two-thirds of our guest list is traveling from out of state. From people we've talked to directly, we've been hearing that folks are ready when we are, but I get the sense there are varying levels of comfort with that. All but one of my bridal party are traveling for the wedding and I keep encouraging them to be completely honest with me about whether or not they're going to be comfortable coming in September so we can factor that in, because I absolutely don't want this to be a source of stress for anyone. So far I'm mostly getting the sense that no one wants to say no to the bride.

We're thinking about doing an online survey so people can share feedback anonymously and we can hopefully get a better sense of where our guests really are in their thinking. We're in Seattle and most of our guests are also coming from the Western U.S. For the most part, they do seem okay with traveling, I think because most of them feel like they have a choice of driving or flying. Those coming from the East Coast seem less comfortable, which I completely understand, but so far no one has said they would prefer not to attend or would be more comfortable if we rescheduled. We're also not in the clear yet in our county with being able to have the size wedding we have planned, so we're keeping an eye on that and just continuing to keep in touch with vendors and guests as much as we can.

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Sorry to hear that, wishing the best for you all.

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Thank you, I really appreciate it. Just trying to keep my mind on the purpose of the day and not get disheartened by this pandemic.

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I feel the same way! im planning everything per usual and sticking with my date 9/26 but there is a part of me thats still a little worried we wont be able to follow through, especially with our honeymoon we just paid for thats in hawaii

View Quoted Comment We are waiting for Phase 4 to begin here in Western New York to decide what we are doing about our venue. If things won’t be better (dancing, congregating at the bar) we will be moving the reception into my fiancé’s aunts backyard for sure. And unfortunately cut our guest list down a bit! It’s so tough to know what to do for sure! It’s all so up in the air! I hope everything works our for you guys and your honeymoon. We hadn’t planned ours yet before the virus hit so that’s still on hold for us!

I was originally supposed to get married in August of 2020 but today my fiancè and I officially moved it to April of next year

View Quoted Comment Sean and I went through and had our wedding on June 20th at my my parents house. Had a drive by over 100 people and 40 people at our wedding. My advice just go with u planned. My husband now was like this is when we planned it so we r doing it no matter what. It was amazing. Girls brides out there that need any advice on backyards wedding. I am also from MA so I have all the people to refer. I am a simple girl and couldn’t believe how our day turned out

We got married May 9th with just close family but moved our big wedding celebration to May of next year just to be safe. Still going to Las Vegas for this years honeymoon but saving our WDW trip till next year just to be safe.

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I was originally supposed to get married on September 19, 2020 in NY but last week, our venue finally let us re-schedule without any fees, so my fiancé and I officially postponed our wedding to April 24, 2021. We are still getting married at the court house here in Florida on our original wedding date because we really want to keep the date IX.XIX.MMXX.

Our wedding was suppose to be on July 4th but we had to cancel last minute since covid-19 is at a high peak right now where we live. We have changed the date for thanksgiving hopefully everything will be better by then

View Quoted Comment I’m sorry your feeling that way. I am thinking of cancelling never rescheduling and moving out...this is just a sign or bad omen

Is there anyone else out there that is having a really hard time with having to postpone “the best day of our life”? So many of my friends are now just getting engaged and I’m happy for them but also jealous that they don’t have to postpone. I can’t help but feel very sad that out of all the people in my life, MY wedding got postponed. What did I do that was so terrible to the universe that the universe said nope? I’m really struggling with finding a bright side to this.

View Quoted Comment Christine, you look beautiful and I adore your flowers 💐