#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

View Quoted Comment Hi Danielle, I’m so sorry. We too had to postpone and at first, we were totally feeling the same way!! I’ve definitely had my down days. We had some bright sides. One is with everything shut down, our weddings will automatically be “thee event of the year”! We still get the cool 2020 year. A lot of people are being so extra kind to COVID brides where if a flower or wrinkle in the dress isn’t perfectly so on our weddings, no guest would say a word when typically they may have 😉 a personal bright side for me is our postponed date falls closely to the anniversary of my grammas passing and my family will be finally together celebrating something happy, which would typically have been an extremely sad, lonely, week. Hope this helps and I hope the bright side for you shines through 🌅☀️🌷

View Quoted Comment Hi Christina, I hope all is well, wondering what you guys decided to do --were you able to secure a new date with your vendor?
We're coming to the realization that things are still going to be crazy in September, so we're trying to figure out alternative plans.

View Quoted Comment Leaning towards a backyard reception with our family and then a cocktail happy hour/party with the people that couldn’t come at a later date. Since New York State hasn’t released guidelines we can’t wait much longer to settle our plans! It’s just so stressful!

View Quoted Comment It really is and horribly disappointing!

View Quoted Comment How are you holding up with this all? Just sad to think back to March when I felt like there was so much time and now it’s 2 months away and things aren’t any better!

View Quoted Comment I totally understand how you feel!! Ours was canceled by our venue (supposed to be 5/2) and I’ve felt so many emotions.. it’s so exhausting!! You’re not alone ❤️

View Quoted Comment Thank you, Katie! You are so sweet and absolutely right! Thank you for helping me find the brighter side!

View Quoted Comment Thank you Claire for saying that! I’m so sorry yours was cancelled also. ☹️❤️

View Quoted Comment I'm really sad about everything, the numbers here keep going up because people refuse to wear masks or socially distance. I feel like I'm mourning. The primary reason we picked our September date was for my FH's grandmother, she'll be turning 98 around that time and we know that she may not be here to celebrate with us if we postpone, but we also knows it's not safe for her to attend anything. I've also lost a couple of family members to covid-19 earlier in the pandemic, so I know it's illogical to think we'll have any semblance of our planned ceremony during the chaos.

View Quoted Comment I am so sorry! About your FH Grandma (I’ve lost all mine and it breaks my heart that they can’t be with us and my fiancé still has two with us, one who has been sick on and off as well so I know the importance of keeping his Grandma safe but wanting her to see the wedding). It’s just terrible! And the family you have lost to this horrible virus, I’m terribly sorry!!!! It’s not fair!


The most frustrating thing is our numbers in NY have drastically gone down so things are getting so well around here... it’s just the fear of people coming in from other states that starts it up again!

View Quoted Comment New jersey is the same way. No word on weddings. Our wedding is at the end September and we dread postponing again.

View Quoted Comment Thank you ♡♡
I completely understand that fear, so many states have numbers that are spiking right now (including ours)!
We've decided that if we do postpone we'll still get married on our original date. We've asked his dad if he'd get ordained and perform our ceremony with immediate family only; then hold a full ceremony and reception next year. Though we're still waiting until closer to August to decide to if we're postponing.

My big day is October 10,2020 so I thought I was safe but the numbers keep going up so I’m getting kinda nervous but if I do anything I would bring my count down so people will feel comfortable

View Quoted Comment That sounds like a great plan!

We had our wedding planned for October 10th, 2020. However we decided to have a small ceremony with just our parents, siblings, and bridal party. We plan on having a vow renewal and reception the following year. Most of my family is from out of state. New York State has travel restrictions, so none of my family would be able to be there. It breaks my heart but I still get to marry my best friend this year and it keeps everyone safe.

View Quoted Comment Bless you!

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I love you are going to have the ceremony performed by family too that is very intimate and close.

So far we are keeping our August 8th date and holding my wedding as planned. Our venue is holding it regardless at this point. If we have to cancel we are just getting legally married and then waiting a year for the wedding. We have an idiot Governor who isn't letting us reopen completely and our venue is just as sick of him as we are. Prayers for you guys and your wedding! I hope they are perfect regardless!

I've postponed my wedding from June 20,20 to June 12, 21. Luckily NY figured out a way to obtain marriage certificates virtually so we had a small ceremony at my moms house with my Reverend via zoom. My mom decorated we got balloons, a cake, a bouquet all things the big days should have. I didn't wear my dress I wore a beautiful jumper with a train attached. I think if you can still get married and have your big party later it's a great option. Wasn't ideal and of course we mourned but COVID stopped the wedding, it couldn't stop the marriage. We still got our cool 6/20/20 date and we got experience the beauty of having something small and private and still get a big party with more time to make it bigger and better (that's the silver lining I derived lol). We didn't tell a lot of people and didn't post photos on social media so when the big day came it would feel the same. Hope it works out for everyone.

Playing it by ear our original date was 7/4 we have now pushed back to 9/4/20 and hoping for the best all our guest have rsvp for the new date so we’ll see what the world will look like then.