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Just Said Yes November 2021

Covid bride trying to postpone

Jessica, on August 2, 2020 at 10:30 PM Posted in Florida Planning 0 9
Ok so bare with me.....we are supposed to get married 10/3 (this is after we already cancelled our tropical destination wedding due to covid in june) we are in florida. We have about 100ish guests. Our entire wedding party, 90% of our guests and all my FH immediate family are in Massachusetts which now enforced a strict travel quarantine. It makes it impossible for anyone to come here without having to quaratine for 14 days or having to test which then is a mess if someone tests postive. It would put TONS of them out of work. We've polled our crew and literally have a handful of people. Our venue is just simply stating there are "no restrictions here" they are now saying if we want to postpone we have to pay an additional **** for the new date AND vendor charges ranging from $600-1k (some of the vendors were included in my package)

I find this HORRIFIC. It's a global pandemic!!! This is price gouging they are asking for nearly 50% of what my total cost was to move my date to a day they already have available......I'm not saying I'm not ok with paying a upcharge for the 2021 rate (which mind you is $500 difference) or even 10% but upwards of $4500?!?!?! My contract states I cant get any money back I've paid, now I'll need to either walk away 7k in the hole or pay more money to a business that clearly has no integrity or ethical business practices😡. Most people I've reached out to locally have said they had no issues moving dates with their venues or paid slight changes.....am I being crazy here because everyone I ask says I should be reporting them to the BBB and looking into legal options (which I will do if necessary) but I literally have NO DECENT options here.......anyone in a similar situation with advice on how to not have a nervous breakdown and deal with this because I've done nothing but cry for days now trying to figure out how to proceed.......

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Latest activity by Emma, on August 10, 2020 at 4:28 PM
  • Kathryn
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    Welcome to the exclusive club of "Not our problem the major part of your wedding can't get here 🤷‍♀️". We've been a part of the club for about a month. Basically we were scheduled for 4/4, postponed to 8/15....in Texas. Yeah. Our families should not be traveling, especially my mother in law(we eloped on our original date, so this is literally just for our families), so we told our venue we need to postpobe.


    Aaand they didn't even give us an option to pay more money and move it. We were told no. And tbh, they're already being sued. Its...yeah. I have some choice words for a business that is like "Pandemic yes, but we're doing our part so come on in". My best advice? Take another poll of how everyone would feel if you just do a wedding at the venue and also livestream it(the option we went with). You can go the route of lawyering up, and some couples have done that. But is it worth it? Eh. Who knows.
    Also, let yourself cry. Be upset because this is all ridiculous. Our wedding was basically paid for. Now we are doing the thing and also planning yet another event for when everyone can get here. There's no rules for this sort of thing. Best option is to be polite with your venue and discuss potential days in 2021. Then see about your backup plans. Not ideal, but it's the theme of this year.
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    I cant justify paying 10k for a wedding with 10 people here (and those people although we love them were B list guests) . It's not an option. I also dont have 5k more especially since I havent worked since march with no end in sight. I literally have no desire to even have a wedding at this point.
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  • Kathryn
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    I hear you girl. 😣 Sounds like you'll have to get legal folks involved. Just wanted you to know that you are not alone, and the only advice I have is to be polite with the venue and keep exploring options. Our thinking was we put the money down and our dj wouldn't let us postpone again, so we may as well get something out of our money. Its a thought at least. If nothing else you guys can enjoy a small day even if it wasn't your original plan.
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    This is all such a mess. We have no control over any of this....good luck to you too. I hope this all is gone soon! 😭
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  • Margaret
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    Let me get this straight, your venue will not allow you to reschedule when you have 100ish guests? And how pretell will they be able to accommodate 100 guests when FL guidelines state gatherings over 50 not permitted. I think you need to talk to your venue again.

    We're having our wedding in FL and we have 59 in total (62 if you include our officiant, photographer and baker) and I know that all our guests are coming (by their words) so right now I'm stressing I have to cut 12 people to meet the 50.

    I'd review your contract and if they can't meet your contracted #'s then the postponement is on THEM not you.

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    It's an outdoor venue they are standing by the fact that there are no restrictions on outdoor venues🙄
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  • Margaret
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    My wedding is in October and outdoors and still no more than 50. I think I'd follow up with the county personally for those guidelines and get it in writing as a CYA for you

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    Thank you I'm going to look into it
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  • Emma
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    This is ridiculous! I also live in Florida and have a Florida venue (Bonita Springs). We also had family coming from the Northeast (Canada, CT, NY, ME, etc) and had to cancel for the exact reason you're saying. Our location immediately gave us a full refund, even though there are technically no restrictions in Florida. Some of the smaller vendors aren't giving us full refunds, which I get because they would be out of business, but most venues make so much money! I would definitely fight them on this. You aren't even asking to cancel... just postpone. Let them know that you'll be sharing your disappointment on Weddingwire and with your local news station that they'd take advantage of this terrible situation.

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