March 2021 Brides- i need your help

I'm one month after you. I cancelled the regular sized wedding

I cancelled the regular sized wedding, thankfully I received all the deposits back. I'm moving forward with a tiny cerenony with parents obly. It will take place outside.

Cancelling isn't an option all together due to the amount of money we have already invested in deposits. :/

View Quoted Comment If I were you, then I would just pray/hope for the best and keep pushing on.

Only you know what you feel comfortable with. We are due to get married in April in another Southern state, and are attending another wedding in February. Our reception will be outdoors and we will offer hand sanitizer but that is all we are planning to do differently, and I doubt there will be much of anything different at the other wedding (I am hoping they will have outdoor access, but I don't know).

I think I would be most comfortable having the full event outside, which the weather in FL allows you to do. But again, that is your choice.

There was always, and will always be, the possibility of something happening as a result of your event - someone getting sick and passing it to a vulnerable person, someone drinking and driving, etc. It is up to you to figure out what your level of acceptable risk is.

We are getting married March 20th and we are seriously scared that our state (Nc) will shut down again...we have been waiting to get married for 2 years and just want to be married already. Our wedding has a 50 max guest count. We are planning on doing everything outdoors.


We have since come up with 3 alternatives because of how our governor had handled things and everyone fearing another shutdown. Since my family except my parents are all coming from out of state, we will just have them not come but live stream the wedding for them. 2. Postpone the big wedding that we had already paid for (have a vow renewal ceremony and reception later) but still get married in a small backyard wedding with close family. And have a family made dinner after. 3. Absolutely last resort courthouse wedding if its open.
Obviously none are ideal but we just want to get married in whatever way that looks like.

April ‘21 AZ bride here! My fiancé asked if I’ve been thinking about the restrictions (bless his heart for thinking I’d hadn’t). I told him that regardless we’re getting married on 4/3/21 & the only thing that might change is the guest list. Our original guest list is 90 & if we need to scale back, it’ll be around 30.

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That's exactly where I'm at. Holding our wedding on the same day at our venue, with a guest list of the most important people, no more than 30. The idea of having another celebration later is neither something we can afford or want to do (because of the risk that will be postponed as well).

TLDR; We postponed our big wedding and will probably just wait 6 months to get married until a new date in September where we can have our full event.

I am also a March wedding in Florida, with 120-130 guests expected so a little bigger than yours. We made the decision last week to postpone. Or venue is essentially all indoors and while we would be at about 60% capacity with room for spacing, there's no way people are going to realistically wear masks with food and drinks coming all night, and we feel like the stress of putting our families at risk isn't worth it. Let me tell you, I stressed and cried about this decision A LOT but it was a huge relief just making the call to postpone our big event. Florida numbers are going up and at this point mixing even a few family circles is risky, let alone bringing in guests from all over the state and country. Also to add, I went to an all outdoor wedding in September with about 80 people, and as a guest I felt pretty uncomfortable.

It wasn't financially practical for us to hold a smaller event at our original venue because they have a huge minimum for food/bev that we would have to meet even if we only invited a few people. Their postponement options were not ideal either, but we reached an agreement with them that allows us to postpone to a Thursday or Monday with our original venue spaces, or a Friday or Sunday with one of their other (less preferred) spaces.

At first we were absolutely sure that we wanted to a minimony on our original date. We would have done something 30 people or less in an all outdoor venue close to home. Then we would do our big event on or near our one-year anniversary in March 2022.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt like March 2022 was soooo far away and I started to worry that everything about the big event would feel so over-the-top for what would essentially be a vow renewal at that point (we have a big venue, big dress, fancy food, whole nine yards). I worried that things like having my parents walk me down the aisle would feel weird if I was already married. Additionally the minimony options I was finding were more limited and more expensive than I expected. I know a lot of this is me overthinking, but I didn't want us to spend a lot of money on an event that people ended up not attending.

Now we are strongly considering postponing until September, and just waiting until then to get married. Our dating anniversary is September 24th so our wedding date would be somewhere around there. It's about a 6 month postponement and it allows us to have our big day exactly as planned without waiting all the way until 2022.

I think that a minimony is still a GREAT option, I just didn't feel like it was the best option for us. I'm not sure if hearing someone else's thought process is helpful or just more stressful but you should absolutely do what is best for you, your relationship, and your guests and their safety. I personally think that postponing the event with 90 people is the best call, but you have a few options on where to go from there.

My wedding is Feb. 2021, and I'm hosting a 150 person wedding, but we're only expecting like 120 people to show up. Fiancee and I were both against cutting the guest list, and moving the date. Mostly everything is paid for, and all I can do is make this wedding follow COVID guidelines as close as possible. We are making social distancing pins, providing masks, gloves, putting hand sanitizer stations on every table, and we even moved our venue to a place that has over 10 restrooms. And all I can do now is message my venue coordinator every few weeks in worry, asking if we're still good to go or if I should look for another venue. TT-TT

My husband and I did a minimony on our original anniversary date in October just in case we can't have the big wedding in March. Right now I'm thinking that the big wedding will have to be postponed because our state isn't doing well at all. However, I won't be making any decisions until late January/beginning of February

My date is 3/27 and I’m waiting until January to decide if the reception needs to be moved. I’ve been following the news and Pfizer has a vaccine that’s 94% effective and is seeking FDA emergency authorization today. News about few other vaccines with high effective rates have also been released and probably shouldn’t be too far behind Pfizer in the process. So with this news, I’m holding out for now abs hoping for the best.

I was a March 2021 bride. We just moved back to Feb 2022. I was just too stressed out with worry. Was a hard decision, but think it was for the best.