May 2020 wedding + covid

I'm getting married May 24th. I haven't changed anything yet, waiting a month or so to see how things play out. I have reached out to all my major vendors (venue, catering, flowers, etc) to see what options I have if we do have to postpone and what the latest date is that I can make that call without losing money. I've found that most of my vendors are being pretty flexible right now, since everyone is in the same boat.

View Quoted Comment Thank you for the reply!
My wedding is May 23rd
And currently I am doing the sameI reached out to:My vendorThe djThe photographerAnd my church
My venue seems the least stressed however and my coordinator told me “just to wait a few weeks to see how things play out”
Working for healthcare hasn’t helped me because I’m surrounded by COVID 8-12 hours a day
I hope we will be okay within a month and luckily our wedding dates fall after the 8-week confinement/ social distancing the CDC wanted

May 16th here. Currently on for that date but planner and i are exploring options to postpone in to fall if needed. We are waiting a couple more weeks before making a decision though. Just coming up with a postponement plan if needed. This time is sooooo stressful and i am heartbroken any of us have to go through this but i keep praying this will get better and our weddings can go on as planned

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Yes I can imagine.

Mine is May 23rd, but you're doing the best thing.

We are trying to figure out another date, and hopefully some of the vendors can hold that date for us. So that by the beginning of April we can make the decision whether to continue to reschedule.

I honestly wasn't feeling the stress until recently...

But I hope that it works out for us, if not maybe we can have a summer wedding lol

May 30th here. Waiting-and-seeing for now. Hoping to have to make minimal changes, if any, but emotionally preparing to have it be very different than planned. We are going to marry this year even if unceremoniously by ourselves, but really hoping to still be able to celebrate with family and friends in person in some way.

May 23rd wedding here. I contacted my venue and they told me that since my date is not one of the most affected I am not forced to change it. Though if I want to they will accommodate without charging me. Which is great! My FH and I decided we are going to wait until April 1st to make a decision to postpone or not. I really hope that it is "not" but I'm prepared to make the sacrifice (hopefully with minimal tears).

Sadly we can't really move it to the early fall because other friends and family are getting married at that time. And postponing to the late fall/early winter will not work for an outdoor wedding. So our plan is to postpone till next spring if we have to.

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Awwww Amy.

Thats my wedding date also, May 23rd
In a way the venue telling you that you aren't an affected date is a good thing. And should make up feel better.
Just a few weeks ago I though that May 23rd was far away, not I feel like its so close.
You're right about waiting until April 1st, that was my date as well. Actually I said by the first week of April because by then we will know if schools are closed for the entire year, if restaurants/bars are reopening, if the CDC is allowing larger gatherings.
So in about 2 weeks you and I should know if we have to reschedule. Although its discouraging in a way we can be positive and say "well most things are paid for, we just have to resend invites" lol

May 30th here. So far we are going to keep going with our date unless we absolutely have to postpone

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Hi Jill,
theres a lot of positive May weddings here.
so that gives me hope and makes me feel good lol.
right now I have found an alternative date that works with my vendors in case we need it, but we are hoping we don't have too.
My wedding is May 23rd, so fingers crossed. And the same goes for you. I hope we can celebrate in a few weeks.

My FS and I are planning on still having our wedding. It's pretty small-only about 60 people but our state has discouraged having events over 50+ for the next eight weeks. Our wedding is on May 28th so exactly 10 weeks from today but we are still somewhat worried about it. Our venue hasn't reached out to us so at this point we're playing the waiting game. We really hope everything works out with this virus thing.

Reading everyone's hopeful comments really helps me remain hopeful as well. Ours is scheduled for May 30th and as of now we are not postponing. I did have to postpone my bridal shower that was supposed to be this Sunday. I am disappointed, however it doesn't even begin to compare to how disappointed I feel when I think of having to postpone the wedding. We were planning on sending out our invites next week, which I think we will hold off an additional week now, and possibly add a little card saying something like..we hope to celebrate on this day as planned, but are monitoring the situation and are working on a backup plan...

I spoke with my venue yesterday, they are hopeful that we will be able to have it, but we are going to touch base again April 1st and see where things are at. I'm hoping either way, we will have more of an idea of how this is going to go.

I have been waiting for this time of my life for as long as I can remember, and now it's so close and then this happens! I go to bed every night hoping that when I wake up this will somehow be over. I'm sure many of you are feeling the same!

View Quoted Comment Hi there Courtney!
Yes stay hopefully
However it seems like a lot of us are waiting until April 1st.That’s a good time because I think anything later than that would be “scrambling” last minute to inform our guests.We have an alternative date at the moment July 25th. And all of vendors and our church is holding that date until April 1st.
I suggest everyone else do the same, find an alternative date, have your vendors hold it, for a max 2 weeks, and let’s see where the world is.

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Hi Kavita!

Yeah, that's a great idea. We reached out to our wedding party to see what other weddings they have this year and when, and we got a list together of dates to ask our venue and vendors about. I highly doubt we will be able to get all of our vendors that we have done if we do have to postpone, but we have prioritized those as well. I know I want to have my decorator, and my florist no matter what if possible. Photographer, DJ, and videographer we will take what we can get. This is so difficult! Best of luck to you!