Love in the Time of Covid...

We have postponed from Fall 2020 to Fall 2021. And we have actually increased our budget by about 30%. I wonder if those who decreased their budget did so involuntarily (ie, reduced their guest list, therefore the budget naturally followed)

View Quoted Comment We sure did decrease due to reduction in guest list. That's funny, we reduced by 33% in our budget!

We went through with our wedding but cut down our guest list from 92 to 7 people. Saved us a lot of money. Makes us wish we would have had a small wedding to begin with.

View Quoted Comment I know that's right! The smaller, the better. Less opinions too.

We were totally set against postponing but now I'm not sure.

View Quoted Comment Okay well I'll definitely be sending you good vibes.

View Quoted Comment Totally makes sense. Less people = less money. Since we postponed, we have not reduced our guest list at all. And since we had an additional year to save, we have added additional things that we originally wanted but didn’t have the budget for.

View Quoted Comment The biggest budget reduction wasn't guests for us, it was changing the venue from an art museum to a public park outside that required no permit.

View Quoted Comment Ahhhh. We got lucky and scored our venue for free, as long as we use the same venue for food and bar (which we had planned on doing anyway). So cutting our guest list would be the only way we would save money.

We held on to our wedding date, 10/10/20, and just pushed through. We set the date way before covid and I didn't want to go through the stress of postponing and then waiting even longer. We just cut our guest list from 40 to about 20 people which saved us some money too. And we were so lucky enough to have an amazing venue, and vendors to work with. They made our day incredible, and I'm so happy we decided to stick through it all.

We just got married on 12/6. We cut down our guest list from 150 to 17, did all outdoors and required masks. We’re very happy to be married and so many people were able to watch our livestream

We ended up going threw with the full wedding last month! No regrets here!

View Quoted Comment Yes! I would do it all over again

View Quoted Comment Yes that was a very desired date to marry this year. Congrats on your new marriage

View Quoted Comment Awww very sweet. Congrats on your new marriage.

View Quoted Comment Good for you and your husband, Dallas.

My daughter postponed June 2020 wedding to August 2020 in CA back in April (when we thought that would buy more time and things would improve). The original venue was not going to open in foreseeable future, so we found one in different county that was even better (outdoor tent on 10 acres with beautiful landscape/waterfalls) and it was 30% less because everyone was cancelling weddings and they were desperate for business. The August wedding took place Covid style (masks/distancing, etc.) with 85 guests and she couldn't be more relieved to be married, done with the whole ordeal, and move on with their lives.

View Quoted Comment Great! Good for her. Congratulations to her!!!

We continued on with our November 14 wedding using Covid guidelines at the time and a few small changes here and there. We agreed that as long as we could have at least 50 people the show would go on! We were lucky to be able to have around 90 guests and vendors who have thankfully stayed healthy. Our area started seeing a rise in cases right around the time of the wedding and has skyrocketed since Thanksgiving. It was a huge relief to have it done (without incident) and over since things are beginning to shut down again in our region!

View Quoted Comment Yes! This was the exact same way we felt! The day ended up being more perfect than we could’ve imagined (masks and all!), and it really made us focus on what was important versus the small details I would have typically been hung up on! You stop worrying about details of bouquets, signs, and cake when you are just praying you can safely be wed!