Covid-19 bride - Wedding date is August 22, 2020

We rescheduled our April wedding for August, and everything is already paid off. Honestly, if we have to postpone again we'll probably just go ahead with whoever can and wants to come. 🤷‍♀️ My hubby - we eloped on our original date so we are married legally- pointed out that we should probably wait until May/June to decide because we probably just lose all of our money as well as our plans. I say take a breath. We have time, and it may calm down enough for micro weddings at least. Definitely cut the guest list though, to around 50 ideally. I think everyone will understand right now.

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Oh man, I would hope that your vendors would work with you to post pone again so you don't lose out on all that money. That is a great plan about cutting down the guest list. We were expecting about 175ish to come and about 30 - 40 of our guests are flying in from Europe, Canada, and CA. We are located in VA. So I'm thinking that a lot of the guests who were suppose to fly in probably won't come and that will help with cutting down the list. I'm praying for us both!!

View Quoted Comment Tbh I think the one who wouldn't want to postpone is me lol. If we can't have a bigger wedding, I'd coordinate a smaller event and call it a day. Even if we lose the money. Just lesson learned. It was hard to postpone this time, and as much as I want my day to be a shiny bride I want to be married more. So we'd probably travel to his parents place if his mom can't travel and get married in their backyard. Not the original plan, but this whole virus is making things a mess.

I think it would be tough to find vendors this close to the wedding even without the pandemic. I would absolutely start reaching out. I guess it depends where you live, but where I am everything needed to be booked 12 months in advance. I contacted 6 makeup artists last July before I could find one for my August 8, 2020 wedding. You might actually be able to get vendors last minute because a lot of people will have cancelled/postponed. There are already many July and August brides changing their weddings. We, like you, are also waiting until May/June to decide. Best of luck!

I would start booking people for our August date. While speaking with them, make sure you ask if they will be flexible with rescheduling your date if you have to postpone due to the virus! I'm afraid if you wait much longer, you won't be able to find any vendors.

I had the same original date! August 22nd. We made the tough decision this week to postpone to July 2021. We have some family traveling in and older family members who likely wouldn't be able to make it or wouldn't consider traveling, even if things are "better" by then. It is a tough call and depends on your personal situation/size of wedding!

We postponed our April 18th date to August 30th, so we’re optimistic that things will be okay by then! It’s truly impossible to know what will happen since things change every day. Just like what most people have said, I would wait until June to make any decision. Because if things aren’t okay to have a wedding in August, then they sure as heck aren’t going to be okay the rest of the year, ya know? Especially since flu season will be right back and they expect covid-19 to be bad in fall also.

Honey we are Legit in the same situation. Our wedding is August 8th and we dont have a bunch of stuff (like vendors)done yet. We we're gonna postpone it but like you said, we're supposed to get another episode of this virus in the fall. If we can't figure things out we may postpone the wedding til next yr. We have been engaged for a couple yrs now and we're so excited to finally be able tie the knot and now this. If all else's false we will get married on our date just renew our vows when our family and friends can be together.

I definitely understand what you mean about feeling selfish or foolish about having a wedding this summer, but you didn't cause this and you didn't know it was going to happen when you picked your date. Everyone should be allowed to feel happy about their wedding, even if bad things are happening in the world around them.


We're hoping not to have to change anything, but we have a series of contingency plans in case we do, and that makes feel a little bit better.
If you do feel like you want to move forward now:
I'm in school so we packed booking all of our vendors into my winter break, but honestly, except for hair and makeup, and dessert if you want to do multiple tastings, you should be able to do most of this from home. The florists we visited showed us most things on their computers, which they could do using a screen share on Zoom, and they could hold up the vases or whatever's in their shop to the camera to show it to you. If you know which bakery you want to use for desserts, you can plan designs and agree on pricing with them over phone or email and plan to do a tasting once they reopen. (If they deliver, you could ask them to send you a small box of samples). Think about restaurants you've been to so you know you like the food. Even if they're not doing take out or delivery now, the owner or manager should be responding to emails, and they definitely have time to talk to you about your rehearsal dinner.
Good luck!

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Thanks for your advice! Praying for both our August weddings.

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That is a good point! If things aren't great by August then wedding season is really over for 2020.

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Agreed, I was thinking the same thing about the rest of the year myself. Most likely this will include January through Spring of next yr too. ( it's still cold in a lot of states). We need a really good treatment since a vaccine will take a year. They are saying Remedesivir looks promising and are in trials now.