March 2021 Brides

My Fiancé and I decided today to push our 03-06-21 FL Wedding wedding back a whole year. Our new date is 03-26-22. I want to be able to have the wedding with all of my family that I've been planning and, unfortunately, with all of my family traveling from the north east, and some of my immediate family with compromised immune systems, having any sized wedding with those closest to me just isn't possible. Thankfully, we have a "Covid clause" in all of our contracts so we are able to reschedule without really losing money. We are keeping our fingers crossed that everyone will feel more comfortable making travel plans a year from now.

We're holding out another month or so to switch to our plan B. Our state's current restrictions limits all gatherings to 5 people or less which is barely even enough for us, our witnesses, and our officiant. Our back up plan is to have a small ceremony with just our parents and witnesses in the mountains where no nosy neighbors can report us for having too many people and then have our big ceremony and reception in a couple years. We already have our backup outfits and a backup cake planned for ourselves. I'm still dissapointed though, since we already had everything booked and payed for before this. 😩

Our plan B for March 20, 2021 is a small backyard wedding of about 30 guests. To include all the other beautiful friends and family that we wanted to have there with us, we are thinking of doing a "drive-by" style portion of the event. Each group of people would be assigned a time that they can come stop by to visit with us on the big day. To further explain, the original 30 guests will stay the entire event, but our cocktail hour will be a 2-hour time slot where additional friends and family can stop by for a brief period of time. Again, similar to a drive-by event, but they can actually get out of their cars and visit with us for their assigned time. This is difficult to explain, but I hope it inspires some ideas!

I don't think I have ever been more stressed in my life We have already been thinking of a Plan B due to COVID-19 and now it is just a matter of when to make the official decision - which will probably be soon. We still want to get married on our actual date (we've been together for 10 years, so I'm not waiting any longer lol ) with just family & siblings there then postpone the wedding/celebration to a later date so we can celebrate the right way! I live in NJ so our cases are continuing to rise daily and its not getting better right now and my fiancé and I both have family that would be flying in from all over the country and also have family that are in the high risk category. Our main priority is to make sure everyone is safe. Fortunately, I emailed our vendors back in July to get a sense of how they are accommodating couples due to COVID and they have all be reassuring and know that this is out of our control and allow us to reschedule up to 1 year later.

We don’t have a plan B right now, but it’s coming soon. Right now our guest list is about 220... it’s crazy to think COVID is still making life complicated.

Our wedding date is March 28 2021 and I’m so worried. we really want to have our wedding in the spring bc it’s going to be in a beautiful garden and it’s too hot here in Florida to have it during the summer. We really don’t want to push back our wedding a whole year, we’ve been together for almost 10 years and we just don’t want to wait much longer. Right now we have 70 guests and there’s really not that many people we would want to cut out. But we also really don’t want to have a wedding with everyone wearing masks since we are paying so much for our photographer 😓 we are thinking of waiting until after Christmas to decide what we are going to do, really hoping cases go down here soon but just don’t see that happening with thanksgiving and Christmas 😞

I was think of still getting married on that day, probably at a court house and then having the actual wedding pushed back until we would be able to. Fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that.

Also feeling very worried about our March 6 wedding! We live in Chicago so outdoors isn't an option, and our state is currently at a max of 25 people! We're happy to do something smaller, but don't want to invest so much for a small celebration, and don't even know who will feel safe coming. It's heartache all the time, but we're trying to wait until after the holidays and see how things shake out before we move to a plan b!

I'm not too worried, we're having our wedding outside and if COVID is still going strong (which it probably will) we will provide hand sanitizer as favors and let them know in the invitations that we will have masks if they don't have one available.
We've also decided to have someone live stream our ceremony so those who don't feel comfortable or can't come due to COVID will still be apart of the magic

The only plan we are thinking about is changing the date. We’ve already sent save the dates and the company we went with is giving free change the dates if we need to. Crosses fingers.

We are planning to have a vow ceremony with very close family and a small reception on Dec 13, 2021. We’ve pushed it up because we are concerned about the virus.

3/27/21 bride here. I am continuing to plan my wedding as is without restrictions while simultaneously planning logistics for our Plan B (minimony on 3/27, push the reception with guests back to late 2021). We're going to make a final call in January -- that gives our guests two months to plan (or not plan), and hopefully we'll have some more concrete details about a vaccine by then.

It's hard to plan for two things, but I'm hoping it mentally and physically prepares me for whatever needs to happen. Best of luck to you!

I am March 14th and am just choosing not to worry about it and whatever happens happens! I am a laid back person lol I am not going to change anything, just going to hope for the best and wing it haha.

3/19/2021 bride here. Our venue is all outdoors here in California &the venue during covid says max is 150 so we’re planning on going forward. I’m okay if people don’t feel comfortable coming I’m just worried about all the hate some guests might come back with for still having my wedding. My BFF is getting married in December &people are calling her a murder &selfish.

View Quoted Comment Hahahah. Big same with the date and being laid back LOL.

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We are making our lives so much easier hahahaha im hoping it'll die down by then lol where are you from??

View Quoted Comment Im from Athens, GA! What about you?? Lol I’m hoping it dies down too. I didn’t even know there was gonna be a spike until someone told me the other day. Supposedly there’s a vaccine out now so hopefully by then it will be accessible and to everyone before March, but also works hahah.

View Quoted Comment I’m getting married March 29 in CA as well. I feel like my family is getting worried about attending which makes me feel bad. My friend got married 2 weeks ago in Orange County with 150+ and no masks. Other places are putting on restrictions so I don’t know how to figure out where you can and can’t have a wedding/large gatherings at this point! My venue is outside and spacious so I am hopeful

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Im from Houston, TX! I am going to be graduating nursing school like a month after I get married (I like to make things as chaotic as possible lol). Going to clinicals this semester at different hospitals has given me a different prospective I think. Like I am the most unconfrontational person alive and am hesitant to write this but I took care of a mom who had a stillborn and taking care of all the NICU babies and the mom's driving there and back everyday just to touch their new baby and then 4 year olds dying with kidney failure--like there is SO much brokenness that I feel like everyone forgets there's still people getting the news that they've just found out they have terminal cancer. With COVID nothing is concrete lol it drives me bonkers and then the masks--the precautions like idk. We need to have reliable people and have the media just be put on mute hahaha I am speaking it into existence that COVID will be gone by then!! We will have the perfect wedding regardless :-) do you know our date is "Pi" (3.14)? That's how I tell people to remember

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much for sharing this Kylie! I completely agree with you, it is definitely easy to forget that there are so many other things going on in this world other than COVID! So many hurting people that need our support! All we can do is pray and have faith in God’s perfect plan.. no need to over worry!