#Coronabrides, Postponing or Cancelling?

Our wedding is scheduled for late June. Currently we're hoping to go ahead as planned but we're not sure. If need be, we're planning on getting married as planned (the ceremony itself was basically going to be a courthouse wedding with close family anyway) but postponing the reception.

My wedding is June 6, and I have been thinking about postponing my date. Many family members had reached out and stated they felt uncomfortable to be at a social gathering at that time. I’m just torn, I know I need to consider changing the date. We have considered to postpone for 6 months to a year...😬

Hi everyone!
Like so many of you, I am a hopeful summer bride (07/12/20). I have been following this thread the past few days and thought I’d hop on with a comment!
A website I have been using to track curve projections is the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. It’s based out of the University of Washington. It has curve projections for the US as a whole as well as individual states. Of course this isn’t the end all be all, and I’ve also been paying attention to other sources. The IHME’s projections update every few days. Their most recent update was yesterday and it’s pretty promising. Here’s the link if, like me, you’re a data nerd (grad student here!) 😊 https://covid19.healthdata.org/

View Quoted Comment Hello, my wedding is June 6, 2020 and my fiancé and I decided to move our wedding to next year too. I’m glad I’m not alone. Best of luck...

View Quoted Comment Yes, this is the same model I've been
referring to. I'm a July 11th bride, and I don't want to make any changes prematurely. We're going to keep looking at the projections and reassess in May. I suggest everyone check out the IHME data. Obviously there can be error, but I feel like the numbers are helpful in making an informed decision rather than assuming.

View Quoted Comment I feel the same way. Our date is Oct 3rd a s my fiancé and I were going to start. Any making in January . Now our wedding any not be until June 2021 😭

Our wedding was scheduled for May 15th. The next available date for our venue is August 7th. We're still on the fence of we should postpone until February 2021. There is so much uncertainty about what will happen.

This virus has made brides to be make very difficult decisions. I agree with the brides that say 2021 is too far. I can’t wait that long to have a wedding... I am at the age where I want to be married and start a family. So, my thinking is yes fall 2020 there might be a second wave of this, but I think our country will be much more well equipped than it was for this current wave of the virus. I am preparing myself for possible restrictions for my new October 31, 2020 date. I am really sad about not being able to have my May 30th big wedding, but I know in my heart I made the right decision for myself and my guests. One thing this virus has taught me is that time is very precious and I want to marry the love of my life at the most quickest but safest time available. I’m still hoping to legally marry him on May 30th at least. Best of luck to all you out there and stay safe!

Hi, we ended up just having a small ceremony in my kids backyard. It turned out to be a beautiful ceremony. We had about 25 people there! Our original date was 4/18 but we pushed it back to 9/12 of this year.

Agreed. Our wedding date was not as soon as your wedding date was, but we still felt the need to change it . With all the uncertainty of whats to come. Our wedding is also a destination wedding and requires everyone to travel. So certainly we want everyone to not only get back on there feet but also be comfortable to board to plane. It just gives us more time to plan which is okay with us, and we are considering changing it to our dating anniversary which i always wanted to do.

June 20th bride. So far the wedding is a go. I am going to wait until late may to make a plan to postpone. I don't want to make decision based on what's going on now when it could either be better or worse in a month.

Mine is set for October 11, 2020, but I am already considering postponing to October 2021. China is 4-5 months in and they are JUST now starting to get better, and that's because they were way stricter than us. I have a feeling we will not see travel open back up until early next year.

Yup! We were May 2 and had to postpone until December 5. I'm happy we found another date but it really sucks to see the countdown switch from 25 days to 240 days. I'm worried I'm going to be really sad on the original date. The whole situation is terrible and I feel for anyone else going through it.

We just postponed our July 11 wedding, probably until next year. We live abroad and travel restrictions in the Middle East are expected to last several more months. I hope for all the summer brides and grooms that they're able to have their weddings!

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Thank you! Good luck to you too!

View Quoted Comment Thank you for sharing, Andy! Typically I’m a lurker on forums too, but I decided to just ask the question everyone is dealing with, and I’m so glad lots of people have contributed their situation and input. I think this helps us with our decision, too. I’ll be referring to this graph now that you’ve share it! I’m wishing all the best for you girl— keep us posted! 💓

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Thank you for posting that link, Addy. It made me hopeful. We are June 20th in the islands/Turks & Caicos where they've closed the airport and locked it down (they only have 5 cases) so I'm hopeful that those measures along with being hyper vigilant about staying home and my state's issuing a Stay at Home order will keep everyone well and flatten that curve. Best wishes to everyone, I feel you about postponing or cancelling. One thing that is getting me through: thinking about how important it is to be able to get through difficulties as a couple. If we can all get through this unscathed with our partners, we'll be golden! As I think we all realize, if we don't have our wedding on our originally planned date, it will happen...and we'll all save money and have courthouse or small, intimate weddings that will be just as meaningful OR we'll have the party of a lifetime because everyone will be ready for a huge bash! Hugs to everyone!

We have just postponed our May wedding to November as well. Coronabrides unite! Who would have thought anything like this would be on our “to do” wedding list.

My wedding was for same date! 4/18. we rescheduled to 9/5. Approx same amount of people too 120-140.
How did you notify everyone & whats your plans for RSVPs on new date, etc?
I already had favors with that date printed on them, etc. 😔

We finally made the decision to postpone on Friday. We were 06/06/2020 and we moved to 07/26/2020. Hopefully it’s far enough out. Good luck everyone, I know this is a really difficult time! Hang in there. ❤️