May brides and your plan of action?

I just made the decision to postpone our May 23 wedding to late August. I'm lucky - all of my vendors are available, including the venue, and all of my key guests and family members are on board. I know many brides are in tougher situations than I am and I am keeping everyone close to my heart as this crisis evolves, and eventually, resolves. STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE!

View Quoted Comment Thank you! Yea I would definitely call, nothing was posted on their website. We are just now trying to see who is all coming to our wedding, my fiance's family is all in California and they are waiting for a couple of weeks to decide if they are going to fly or just drive...flights our very cheap right now $109 round trip for 2! But, they are leaning towards driving...safer for them! My soon to be mother n law is a nurse, so she knows what's best for them. Iam very happy are venues and vendors are all still onboard! I hope it stays that way. They say ohio will peak by middle April, so I pray it then starts settling down and starts to decrease after the middle of April to May and it gets better by May 1st...we start seeing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Keeping Faith and Prayers are getting me through this!

View Quoted Comment Good luck and praying for us both!!!

View Quoted Comment Thank you for sharing your experience Joyce, it makes me encouraged that these weird feelings were completely valid. I might have taken a leaf out of your book and mourned with some carb filled, greasy food and shopping haha.


I was able to open up to one of my bridesmaids of my feelings and she immediately made a checklist of what I should be doing for Plan B (i am soooo grateful for good friends).
I'm glad to report that within hours I was able to pick an alternate date for wedding and confirmed with ALL vendors that should May 16 not happen, my alternate wedding date is available.
So even though feelings of helplessness threatened to pull me under, I was shown that all things will work out.
Keep your chin up everyone, we will make it through this weird time.

View Quoted Comment Thanks so much for the suggestion, but thankfully won’t have to use it. Found out that starting next week they will be setting up appointments for marriage licenses two days a week in the mornings at a tent/outside the building!


Good that they think Ohio will peak in mid-April and to start decreasing after that. Best wishes to you and your family on the rest of the wedding planning. I can definitely understand the struggle of deciding how to travel. We’re concerned some of my fiancé’s family in the VA/MD and NYC area won’t be able to make it.

View Quoted Comment Lol mine just closed we can’t get it here we were supposed to get married here in NC May 24th trying to postpone atm but the venue is closed for 2 wks lol what a S*** show this has been lmao

View Quoted Comment We were just going to keep May 16th, but we decided that we should postpone to Aug or Sept. After contacting venues and vendors everything is booked! So now we decided to say screw it, we are getting married on our original date May 16th and if none shows up..oh well! Dont care anymore! We got our marriage license two weeks ago anyways! For sure a shitshow! No kidding lol

View Quoted Comment Your so lucky you got your marriage license we can’t even get ours I would a bit better if we could just get that and just get married anyways 😭

View Quoted Comment Where do you live, I know alot of them are doing it vertically now.. I would look into it. Also, have you asked your pastor or whoever marry you about just doing the wedding and getting your license afterwards... 😥 iam sorry

View Quoted Comment I’m in Northern California :/ no we haven’t! This has been really hitting us the past few days and just breaks our heart we might not even be able to just get married in our original date

View Quoted Comment Yea, it's very hard. We were thinking about postponing ours til Aug or Sept, cause of everything going on even though we got our license. We would just another one. But, after looking into it, everything is booked and we dont have any other choice. My grandfather is in his 90s so there's no way I want to wait to next year. So, its May 16th no matter who shows up. I feel bad for every bride, this is devastating and very upsetting! Makes you feel you've done all the planning for nothing! I wish you and your fiance the best and I'll keep you in my Prayers!

Our wedding day is May 16th as well. At this point I’m not sure what to do. I really don’t see things getting better but I’m trying to hang onto hope. My FH and I haves talked about a plan B which is getting married on our original date and then this time next year have a year one vow renewal and have the full ceremony/reception. But today I have found out some of my vendors are not available next May. I’m totally lost on what to do. I’ve been upset and crying for days about this.

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My wedding date is also on May 16th. I am holding onto hope, there are still a 40ish days left! Plenty of time for changes to be made! The stress is real though. It's hard to keep planning while not knowing how many will show up if any at all when needing to get centerpieces amongst other things. The venue is being very flexible, thankfully. They said they will remain open. Vendors are also open to being apart of the wedding as well still. Very hopeful can keep the May 16th date and go through with everything as planned even if the guest list gets cut in half.

View Quoted Comment Hi my date is the same day as yours! Are you still holding on to it or did you postpone? I would love someone else's opinion. Most of my guests are in town, so everyone is still RSVPing hoping it will happen. What are your thoughts??

View Quoted Comment We officially postponed ours to August 2020! We’re in California and there’s no way a wedding would be happening most of our guests wouldn’t attend and we want to celebrate with our friends and family when people feel a little bit more at ease we feel a lot better now and we got to keep all our vendors we still plan to elope just us on our original date!!

View Quoted Comment Hi, we are still having our wedding May 16th. I have had only 4 families say they arent coming. We tried to postpone, but found out that everything is booked for this year, we would have to postpone til next year. Which we arent doing, my grandpa is in his 90s and I dont know how much longer he will be with us. I am his last grandchild to get Married so I want him there. We are only having close family and friends, around 40 guest total. Our Ceremony is outdoors on the lake and our reception hall is a private venue. All of our vendors are on board with our decision too! I still wont relax til the day comes though, still very stressful and taking it day by day!

View Quoted Comment Our postponing date would have been Aug 15th, but everything was booked and coulnt find a date that let us keep our venues and vendors. So May 16th will be Our Day! 😊 I wish you the best and congratulations!

View Quoted Comment Our new day is August 16 so funny! I wish you guys the best hope you post pics here after

View Quoted Comment I am happy for you, and hope everything goes as planned. I'll post pictures and thank you!

View Quoted Comment Where in California are you from, my fiance is from California and his family live in Frazier Park and Pismo Beach. They are flying in May 14th here to Ohio. 😊