Covid & September 2021

My FH and I postponed our December 2020 wedding to December 2021 (one year to the day). If in the next few months we have to re-consider due to COVID, we will 100% cancel the big ‘do and have a small wedding.

We have chosen to reschedule in order to have our ideal wedding; however, it’s not a “big wedding”, in fact it’s quite small (max 40 people). But we didn’t feel we could have the wedding we both dreamed of this year. And since we aren’t having children, and we decided to move in together at the beginning of the pandemic (rather than quarantine separately in different states), we really aren’t in any sort of time crunch. So we decided to just be patient and push the date back so that we could have that once-in-a-lifetime celebration the way we envisioned it.

Personal decision. I wouldn't wish this early as nine months is awhile away. Also, depends on what is important to you. I wouldn't wait because there's no end date for sure and I would want to continue as planned but a big wedding was never super important to us but for some couples it is. Either way I feel it's too early to make a decision on postponing.

My wedding is 4/3/21 & we’re getting married on that day regardless. My fiancé was concerned that it’s not going to go as we envisioned but I told him that we’re going to have our dream wedding- the only thing that might change is the guest list. We’re inviting around 90-100 people so only around 75 (maybe) will be there. My fiancé is a firefighter/medic & I work at hospital so we’re getting the vaccine (2nd dose next week). We understand that some just don’t feel comfortable going & respect their decision- we will follow the rules, have plenty of masks & hand sanitizers available.

Our wedding is 9/19/21!
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We haven’t had to postpone yet. We spoke about postponing if we have to cut our guest from what’s on the contract and can’t get our money back for the difference. We also don’t want to do a second celebration (Say if we do cut down then that’ll be how we celebrate our big day). I’m hoping things will be back to the new normal. It does sound like our vendor is actively doing their best to follow protocols and that makes me feel less stressed with planning. That may change as the date gets closer lol. .My family has also been impacted by COVID so I don't mind pushing it back if things are still not safe & we don’t feel comfortable.

I’m a bit later in September & we’re going to reconsider in April. We want to get married regardless; the issue is going to be if there are any restrictions, what’s the cut off we’re okay with (currently we’re thinking around 100...initial guest list was 150). So if restrictions are 50 or something by April, we would work to postpone. Which is going to be a whole headache with coordinating vendors, & we haven’t booked some still (DJ, florist, etc.) just in case.


We’re actually under that number right now—it’s 10 inside, 25 outside, no dancing or mingling. But I’m still hoping for some sort of miracle, haha. I’m sure I’ll get pushback on the April cutoff—it could be 50 in April & no restrictions in September, but there’s no way to know! And I really don’t want to be making this call two-three months out, when we’re doing invites (the other time that seems to make sense to make a postponement call), because the closer we get the harder it will be to get a date with most/all the vendors.

Hi!! I agree with previous posts that it may be too early to decide at this point for September. I know it’s really hard just to have faith, but I have a lot of hope for you as well! We married in August and had a lot of guests doubt it would be possible to do it safely, which I totally understand. For background, we are not in a hotspot, outdoors for ceremony and reception, all protocols followed. No one got covid at our wedding and I truly believe it was all the precautions we followed. Each couple is different so there’s no wrong decision to keep or postpone, but for us, we wanted to move forward. We loved our wedding and it surpassed my expectations! It was smaller for sure (104), but I told my husband I never needed a 280 person elaborate wedding to be happy. Hope this helps ❤️🌼🌺

We decided to cancel and elope/have a small ceremony instead. Less stress, frills, and money.

Our wedding is in October and we're going on as normal. Hopefully by then, vaccines will be more widespread and restrictions will be less strict. If it doesn't, though, and we couldn't have our wedding -- we're just going to elope or have a microwedding. FH and I have been together for 7 years this June, so I definitely don't want to wait another year.

We wanted to be married, and were fine with restrictions. We reduced our guest list and got married last month, outside and with masks on. We’re very happy with our decision.
Some people would rather have their dream wedding and not deal with any restrictions and therefore decide to postpone, and that’s very smart as well.
Depending where you live I’d think masks might still be required by September but I think other restrictions would be relaxed. Who knows though.I would definitely not postpone or change your plans just yet though!

We’re in CA, and scheduled for October 2021. We’ve started having the discussion of postponing the larger reception until next year or later (maybe not indicating a date). We’ll go ahead and get married this year with a very small group either at the venue or a national park possibly depending on what is dictated by the state/local. We’re only inviting 100 people and our venue is all outdoors and in San Diego where most of my family is. We’re fine with mask restrictions, social distancing. Sad about potentially not having dancing though. Our venue will let us make the decision 2 months prior. We also have a clause in our contract to postpone to December (though not sure that’ll look much different especially with the holidays and that impact on covid numbers). Good luck planning all!

We were originally supposed to get married on 5/30/2020 and obviously had to postpone. We postponed to July, then October of 2020. We decided to get married on October 23rd and scheduled our big wedding (200-250 people invited) to October 23rd 2021, our 1 year anniversary. I couldn't be happier that we are married now, and I really liked my super small intimate wedding ceremony, it was just us and our parents and siblings. And my grandparents. It was very short, simple and to the point and afterwards we went to dinner. I didn't want to do anything more than that because I wanted my big wedding/wedding of my dreams to feel as magical as possible this year.

I think it's definitely too soon to postpone for a Sept wedding, there's lots of time and things are changing so much - I think (and hope) things will be looking a lot better by then since the vaccine should be widespread in the summer. I will say, since we are married now I am less stressed about whether or not the big wedding will happen or not at this point. It's nice to be married and not have to stress daily about when we are getting married.

Best of luck to you!

Thanks, everyone for your input! I really hope we are all headed in the right direction in the world! I have no intention of postponing, it's not even a thought. Our wedding will go on no matter where or how (big or small). I have been curious about what other people are doing for themselves. I really hope we can all have the wedding we want! Best of luck to all and keep me updated! ❤️

Wedding date twins! Our wedding was originally planned for September 12, 2020 postponed to exactly one year for sept 12, 2021. We will not be postponing again. We feel like we’ve put “life on hold” enough...of course I wish things could be different for all of us couples out there but, life is too short and we want to be able to just move on. Have kids, etc.

We decided to do a minimony in April on our date anniversary but we changed our minds to put our focus, hopes, dreams, and positivity to our 'big' wedding in October. I am more than confident that I will still be able to have my dream wedding on our date, even with some restrictions. Optimism is the name of the game!

Our wedding is May 30, 2021 in San Juan PR. I've waited for this day for the past 200 plus days. I found out today that current guidelines set by the Puerto Rican government is that weddings are limited to 3 hours. I understand COVID but my wedding is suppose to be 6 1/2 hours. I'm deeply saddened and praying that COVID gets better and changes by then. I need it to desperately. So much planning and preparation as well as money has went into this day. I will not be changing that date. I want my full 6 hours. Not 3.


Good luck on wedding planning and I hope you're able to have that magical wedding you want!

We are getting married 9/5/21 and we’ve just started discussing the what if’s, esp bc when numbers were going down in NY last summer it was still at 50 person max and we have like 250 invited and most of that is family. My mom keeps saying to wait it out bc of the vaccine, but I am the type of person who needs to have some kind of idea of a backup plan if we are limited capacity or I will stress about this for months haha


So to answer your question we are leaning towards getting married on our date on top of the mountain at the venue we chose. If we have to we will cut the list (that’s a whole other thing we have to figure out) and set up virtual/zoom for whomever we had to uninvite in person. If anything, my parents offered to host a vowel renewal/ super big reception bash later on when things get back to some kind of normal and we can all gather in large groups again. I’m not risking losing out on money by canceling it or postponing it all together.

I wouldn't wish this early as nine months is awhile away. Also, depends on what is important to you. I wouldn't wait because there's no end date for sure and I would want to continue as planned but a big wedding was never super important to us but for some couples it is. Either way I feel it's too early to make a decision on postponing.