Hello hello!
I just want to give a fair warning as this might be long, and may just sound like rambling or not as serious as I'm making it out to be in my head. I apologize in advance!
I think I just need some help and honest opinions from people I've never met, but are maybe going through the same things, or have views on this whole wedding thing.
Our wedding was originally planned for May 2021. Which was a complete blessing that we didn't plan for 2020 (we got engaged in 2018 and I insisted on a longer engagement)
May 2021 is still looking okay, as our wedding is in Kentucky, where things seems to be as normal as it can be, as far as weddings go.
But let's be honest, it won't be ALL back to normal in 2021. 100% of my guests are out of town guests, coming from Australia, Korea, San Francisco, New York, Detroit, LA and more. About 20% of FH's guests are out of town since most of our guest lists are his relatives that already resides in Kentucky. My MOH is my best friend of 20 years, and she lives in Melbourne Australia, where things are on crazy lockdown (they can't leave past 5km/3 mile radius from their zip code) and they are saying that International borders will be closed until late 2021, meaning that there is a very slim chance that she will make it out to the states. Along with all my childhood friends who lives in Sydney (I grew up there).
My parents both live in Korea. Koreans are able to travel to the states right now, but Korea is getting a second wave and a second wave here is absolutely unavoidable at this point. So who know if they will be able to make it? I mean, we all were so sure that in the beginning, covid was only going to last "a few months". So how can I be sure that my dad can walk me down the aisle?
Then tonight, I noticed that my DJs FB disappeared. His messenger deactivated. I sent him an email, checking if he is still in business and if he's doing okay, he didn't reply, which I assumed was because it was his business email, and if he is no longer in business, why would he check it right? So I found his number and texted him, and he apologized a million times and said that covid took him out of business and then on top of that, he was let go from his day job. He was trying to keep our wedding and was going to wait until January to see if he could still do it. But...if our wedding is in May, and he was going to tell us in January, how would we have found DJ such last minute? During covid wedding vendor war? (Its like hunger games out there to find vendors for 2021)
So all this rambling and venting and whining to say, If you were in our position, with still a good 7 months to go, Would you elope? Postpone? Still go ahead with 2021?
Has anyone gone through anything similar?
I'm sorry. I just have a lot of everything in my head. I feel terrible even complaining about this when I know so many of you guys had to already cancel or postpone without a choice.
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