June 2020 brides: freaking out?

We just made the decision to postpone our June 27, 2020 wedding in Chicago to June 25, 2021. After reading the “Opening Up America Again” guidelines recently released, and seeing states begin to extend stay at home policies, we knew we wouldn’t be able to have more than 10 people, and likely won’t have 50+ for months...if ever this year. Like many of you, I was agonizing my decision to either wait it out, move to October, or move a full year. But now that everything is finalized I feel so much better and know we made the right choice for us and that we will hopefully have the wedding (and wedding activities) that we've so been looking forward to. Good luck to all those currently waiting it out, I so feel for you.

View Quoted Comment Yesterday we decided to postpone our June 6th wedding at the beach to next summer. Not an easy decision but didn't want to wait until last minute so stressful. Hope everyone is safe and has the wedding of their dreams

We also made the decision to postpone our June 7, 2020 wedding to next summer June 27, 2021. It was a tough decision but now that we are no longer in limbo a huge load has been lifted. I feel as though I can breathe again and focus on my family during this tough time.

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Good luck Linda! My wedding is scheduled for June 12th as well! I love how important that day is to you, it's very sweet!

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My fiance is also Roman Catholic so getting married in the church is very important for him. He has mentioned getting married in the courthouse, but that is an absolute last resort. We would much rather not do that. Our church has given us a few options depending on what the recommendations by the CDC and the governor are at the time of our wedding (June 12th). One option would be to have a very small, simple ceremony of no more than 10 people and then have a larger ceremony with vow renewals later on, kind of like what you said. It all depends on if there is a stay at home order and the restrictions on public gatherings though. That's what we are considering doing, but we are waiting until the end of April to make a decision. I'm just trying not to stress out as we wait! Haha. Good luck Rebecca! I hope it all works out!

We were supposed to get married June 25 but we have postponed to October 1 for now. I would like to think that things will be back to normal by then, but the NJ/NY area is kind of a nightmare so we will probably be the last to open up. I feel like it was the right decision now although we are still pretty bummed because it messes up more of our plans (house hunting, starting a family) but we want everyone to be comfortable being there. We also want to be able to enjoy our bachelorette/bachelor parties and we wouldn’t be able to do that with everything going on. I know it’s so hard to do but it’s probably the safest bet. We have also had a lot of sickness in the past year - his mom had cancer and my grandfather was sick and passed so we don’t really want our big day to also revolve around sickness. We truly want to celebrate as this past year has been a nightmare and it will be nice to have the family get together for something positive. Wishing you all luck with your weddings. Fingers crossed your states will be back to normal faster than mine will.

July 17th Bride here! I am sorry everyone is going through the process of either cancelling or postponing! I am still holding on to faith and hoping my wedding can still happen. For me I have several reasons for holding on to faith that July might be ok for me. I have under 50 guests attending the wedding, no one elderly is going to attend since traveling was involved, and I have spoken to a lot of my guests and they said if they can fly they will be there. My biggest concern now is seeing how the re-opening phases will unfold and that 100% of my guests are coming from other states. We moved to Florida a little over a year and are the only ones here, so everyone is coming from other places. Just praying and keeping it in God's hands. I do have a back up date for November 1st, if we are not allowed to have at least a gathering of 50. Not ideal since I have flights for my daughter already set up to stay with my parents right before the wedding and her coming to the wedding and traveling back with family for honeymoon time. So rescheduling everything just seems like a nightmare.

I wish everyone the best of luck and I know everyone has there own reasons and decisions to make so just make sure you listen to you heart and still make your day special regardless of the virus! LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL!

View Quoted Comment We are June 20th. Officially decided to postpone to next May. Will give us extra time to save money and hopefully keep people safe.

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Glad you were able to make the decision and do what is best for you and your loved ones safety. It is all such a gamble right now and I know everyone has their reasons behind their decisions. I wish you nothing but the best and I hope your wedding ends up being what you have always dreamed about!

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We are Chicagoland also. We are slated for June 28, 2020. How was your venue communicating with you throughout all of this? I feel like I am getting no help

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Really? Our venue was really great... she provided open dates for winter and next May/June. Once we selected our new June date we just had to revise our current contract with the new date and were all set. Is your venue not responding, or just not yet giving you the option to postone? We're supposed to have an announcement about IL's stay at home extension this afternoon so that may help you once you have more concrete info.

View Quoted Comment Same! June 6th reception postponed til June 5th next year. The wedding ceremony is still a go, but only close family and everyone else will watch via YouTube live. We may slowly allow others to trickle into the church if the church allows as we get closer, but keeping it limited since my 83 year old grandmother being present is a non-negotiable. Just think of how sweet a celebration it will be next year when everybody is more at ease and can truly let loose at the reception!

We just made the decision today to cancel our wedding 😫. We’re still getting married on the 27th of June however, it’ll likely be just us two and a photographer. Nice thing about CO is couples can marry each other legally and are not required to have witnesses or an officiant (not our ideal situation but for right now it helps us). Our original plan was to get married in MN (where I’m from) with close to 250-300 guests. We couldn’t see MN opening up large gatherings with that many people at the end of June so we made the safe decision to cancel it as 75% of our guests were coming from out of state. We didn’t want to risk anyone traveling or attending a large gathering at that time and get exposed to anything. It’s a difficult decision and so many emotions right now however, we are not alone, we will ALL get through this together and I strongly believe that even if you are planning on a reception at a later date (which is what we will do) that will be one bada$$ party of the year when it is safe to do so!! Everyone will be looking for any excuse to celebrate us awesome couples who couldn’t have the wedding of our dreams in 2020. We deserve to have this celebration even if it means postponing it to a later date. Cheers to you all!!

We were a June 6th wedding and my venue officially postponed it a couple of days. we were planning on a semi-small wedding (less than 80 ppl) at an outdoor venue. my family & friends (all local, no one was flying in) were ready to attend, regardless of the pandemic. it was disappointing but no surprise. we're going to get married privately and "renew our vows" on June 4th, 2021. now im just trying to salvage my wedding favors that already have our wedding date printed on glass mason jars. arg. there's always a light at the end of this beautiful tunnel you beautiful brides. keep your heads up.

View Quoted Comment What are your ideas for saving wedding favors? We were going to have a small beach wedding and we have beverage cozies with our date on it and a wedding sign in
I thought maybe I'd just send the cozies to the guests. Our wedding date was June 6th but we postponed until next June
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Yesterday I postponed my June 12 wedding to May 2021. Over half of my guests were from out of state and were worried about traveling. The stay at home order was extended until May 15 (and will probably be extended again), and I wouldn’t be able to get my dress alterations done in time. One of our groomsmen is stationed in another country and travel was banned until June 30 there. I’m not feeling optimistic that an event over 50 people will be allowed in my state or be safe in June. It felt like we had to make so many compromises for our wedding if we wanted it to happen in June, so postponing was the best option for us. We were able to find a few dates next spring and summer where all of our vendors were available and they have all been amazing throughout the process of postponing. I’m just sad that I spent hours making each invitation with my Cricut (they turned out beautifully!) and mailed them out, only to have to buy new invitations for our new date. I feel sad that we had to postpone our wedding that we’ve waited almost 2 years for due to something completely out of our control. But at the same time, I feel so relieved that everything is finalized and that we made the right decision for us and our guests.

We agonized like many of you for weeks and finally decided to postpone our June 27th wedding to next June 25th. Our family is mostly out of state, and essentially told us they wouldn't come in June or even August 7th which was our backup date. If the closest people won't come, then there was no point in holding out, and I don't have any confidence that crowds over 5 or 10 will even be able to gather by then (I'm in CT). He and I are planning on still getting legally married on the 27th this year. I won't change my name until after the wedding next year to keep something special for then. Now we're looking to do our legal ceremony in NH in a nice outdoor spot, so let the planning for that begin!

Any brides who postponed to July or August of this year still moving forward? Or are you considering postponing again? I’m in NW Indiana, and postponed from June 24, to July 31.

View Quoted Comment My wedding favors are mason jar shot glasses with customized print on them. Luckily i have a cricut machine so i plan on creating transparent stickers of our new wedding date to place on the shotglasses. Just making the best of the hand we got dealt.

View Quoted Comment My wedding favors are mason jar shot glasses with customized print on them. Luckily i have a cricut machine so i plan on creating transparent stickers with our new wedding date. I'm going to scrape off the old printed dates from the shotglasses and place the "new date" stickers on them. Just making the best of the hand we got dealt.