July 2020 Weddings

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Me too! That was my venue too! Originally from March then they allowed me to reschedule to November only to completely cancel on us 2 weeks later!

View Quoted Comment Unreal!! I am so sorry that happened!!

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Yes! I am so mad at them, it was my dream venue so I had to grieve that also. But we found a new venue and about to sign a contract for April 24th, 2021. Cross fingers this finally happens next year!

How are brides going about making their case to the venue to hold a back-up date? I feel like if they did that for every bride, there would be no dates left....

I have had to cancel my wedding once (April 18th). My venue only had Saturday, July 25th, open for this year (so we took it). I am worried I may need to cancel a second time. I want to secure a back-up date, but they are in the mindset that the venue will be fine come July. I am not as confident... (Virginia wedding)

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Yes we were thinking the same thing for invites! I haven't even reordered mine yet, i'm nervous to! We were getting ready to send ours out for our May date when this all started. Luckily shutterfly is reprinting for free but I would hate to have them printed too soon for July and have to cancel again!

Best of luck to you too!! We're all in this together!

View Quoted Comment Our venue is letting us select a date to postpone our July 2nd wedding and then have a curtesy date to hold as well. But they did say if someone comes along and selects our curtesy date we would need to make a decision at that time.


Totally understand how you feel about July. NJ bride here and to be honest i feel like we are going to have to postpone until next year. Right now our postponed date is set for September

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Our wedding is 7/11 across the country from us in Oregon. The venue will let us reschedule in 2021 but to transfer our deposits over they want us to wait until this November to pick from whatever dates they have left for 2021 by that time. I can't imagine waiting over 6 months to let our guests and other vendors know the new date... or we can reserve a 2021 date now but would lose the deposit we put down already and would be subject to their increased pricing for 2021... The governor is making an update on reopening on 5/4 so we are waiting until then to hope that things are more clear and hopefully the venue will give us more options/be more flexible after that.

I’m getting married 4July (UK wedding) my venues communication is shocking. I don’t think I would have heard from them if I hadn’t emailed. So far I’ve had hardly any RSVPS as people can’t commit to travelling 4hours and booking hotels. We also hardly have any money coming in due to lack of work, my Dad is seen as a high risk and I’m really struggling to get anything organised with places being shut. I’ve raised my concerns numerous times and have asked if I could postpone. Told no we will be going ahead. I’m just extremely stressed and anxious as struggling to get anything planned and the lack of communication is not helping. Any advise would be great or even just words of encouragement.

View Quoted Comment Fingers crossed for you! I had went to the seamstress the day DC was closing all non Essen businesses. I figured that’s one thing to get taken care of while we all self-isolate/social distance and it gives the alterations people work since they do the alterations at home.

View Quoted Comment I’m also an NJ bride with a back-up date in September and I’m just praying that if July doesn’t work out, September will! We’ve been engaged for about a year and a half and are buying our first house, so we really want to have the wedding on one of those dates.

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At this time-especially if you're struggling financially i would sit and see what you put out to the venue and see if its not better to cut your losses now? I believe laws we be made via lawsuits that hold venues/vendors accountable. This pandemic is showing many holes in the wedding industry. I am so sorry this is so stressful

Our wedding date was also going to be 7/11/20 in the Los Angeles area, but yesterday we made the heartbreaking decision to postpone until 7/10/21. We had two major reasons: 1) we were going to have around 300 guests and a good number of them are part of the vulnerable population, so we wanted to keep them safe and not make them feel like they couldn’t come to our wedding and 2) it seems that even if the world does start getting back to normal by July, everyone will probably still be wearing masks, gloves and having to stay apart from each other which is really just not what we want out of a wedding.


We figured that if we are spending this much money, and since we have waited this long (high school sweethearts that are now 26 and 29 here!) that we should wait until we can have the wedding of our dreams. Luckily, all of our vendors are available on the new date so that part of it was fairly painless. The videographer we REALLY wanted that was not available on our current date is available on the new date, so that was a nice win too. We are currently trying to get bachelorette and bachelor party related expenses refunded.
The reason we chose to postpone for a full year is that 1) they seem to expect the virus to peak again in the fall 2) regular flu season picks up in the winter/spring 3) we are planning an outdoor wedding so combatting weather in the winter/spring would just be another complication 4) they seem to expect that a vaccination will be available in the next 10-12 months, which would theoretically mean everything will be 100% back to normal by then and that we can have a mask -and-glove-free wedding of our dreams.
Sorry for the long post. I have been following this thread for weeks as we tried to decide what to do, and I wanted to share our plan in case it might help anyone else. I hope everyone stays healthy, and I’m rooting for all of us!

View Quoted Comment Wishing you the best of luck! We postponed to next year for the same reasons - we have a much smaller guest count, but a lot of our guests are in the at risk group due to their age.

We postponed ours until next year. Was a difficult decision, and we were going to hold out longer, but the anxiety of not knowing was too much. Even if restrictions are lifted, who knows what the recommendations will be regarding social gatherings in July. Considering that our guests are out of state, waiting much longer doesn’t give them time to plan.


Luckily our vendors have been very understanding, and we were able to secure a new date that works for everybody! The guests we’ve informed (a formal announcement will be sent out soon, but we’ve had many reach out to us to ask if our wedding is still on) have been understanding, and maybe a little relieved.
Ah well. It sucks, but it’s also a relief that we have a new plan.

To be honest in my state. No I don't think I will be able to have my wedding in July or if we are able to hold the event I feel that people will still be on edge and many won't come due to the virus or insist upon social distancing and wearing masks to the wedding.

My fiance and I are still holding out as this is basically our only chance to have a wedding. The venue doesn't have any dates to reschedule open for years to come and I've already waited two years. We're going to have to cancel outright if it can't happen for us on 7/11.

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Hi Jessica!

So sorry to hear!

But I am literally in the same boat so I feel your pain. We've been together almost 11 years!!

Our wedding is set for July 25, 2020 but we have everything backed up to July 10, 2021. Your reasoning is exactly what my fiance and I discussed.

Probably by July everyone will still have to have masks and gloves and keep a social distance and that is not the memory we want of our wedding. My fiance keeps telling me that it may spike again in the fall also.

We want to be able to experience everything of wedding planning ie. registry shopping/wedding shower/bachelor(ette) parties/ rehearsal. And at this time it doesn't seem possible.

I am in Illinois and our shelter in place order just got extended to May 30.

I just haven't made the decision to fully cancel I'm not sure why or what I am waiting for.

Thanks for your input!!!

View Quoted Comment Hi Sabina, sorry to hear about your postponement as well, but boy did it make me feel better to read your story!


I agree with everything you said. As you know, it was a heartbreaking decision to make but I really think we both did the right thing. We are thinking about ways to try and make the next year a fun build up to the wedding, and so far we’ve come up with a group camping trip (when possible) with all the bridesmaids and groomsman, maybe subscribing to one of those bride-to-be goodie box things that sends you fun surprises every month, and using the year to save up for a few things that were out of our budget this go-round. Trying to stay positive! I wish you and yours all the best, and I can’t wait for our new wedding dates!

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Oh what a great idea!!!! I love it!!

Maybe send the bridal party a small little something on the original date !

And totally agree with you about saving for some additional things that would have been over budget this time.

Good luck to you as well!!

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I postponed my July 4th wedding to July 24, 2021 - heartbreaking, BUT I took the opportunity to cancel my DJ I had scheduled last-minute and felt very uncomfortable with (seemed unprofessional), to book a really great DJ who was more expensive, but now I have time to pay that off, and feel more comfortable with how the party will go. When we first booked DJs, all the ones with positive reviews were already unavailable! It's made me feel totally glad we postponed, to have this silver lining.

We are supposed to get married 7/4 and waiting for the governor of Vermont to issue his new orders on 5/15 before making a decision or being forced into a decision. The venue has 10/3 available but I really wanted 7/4. Just sad about the whole thing and the waiting game is torture. I'm almost considering cancelling the whole wedding and doing an intimate ceremony instead.