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Savvy October 2020

October (fall 2020) Brides: Are you going forward or postponing?

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Sarah, on July 21, 2020 at 4:46 PM

My fiancé and I are getting married 10/10/20. We have jumped through hoops since COVID started, so that we could get married this year. (Switching vendors and dates to accommodate a Fall wedding) We thought we were doing the right thing by waiting until Fall, but turns out (as we all know) the pandemic just isn’t at bay. We are contemplating whittling down our guest list to just family and a few close friends. Which would make our guest list less than half the original. We both have looked forward to our guests having fun after a long spring/summer of uncertainty but it looks like this day may not be what we planned. I don’t want to postpone, and my FH doesn’t either. But we aren’t sure what our final wedding day will look like and it’s making us both pretty pessimistic about planning. We know we want to go through with some sort of celebration but it just doesn’t seem like it’s as joyous, given the concern over the virus and hoping our vendors don’t back out and our venue stays open! What are you brides/grooms who are in the same boat, planning to do?!

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Just Said Yes May 2021
Rebekah · on July 22, 2020 at 3:57 PM
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We were 10/23/20 and we postponed to May 2021, but now we're thinking if the only event we can safely have in the spring still requires social distancing, masks, and a substantially reduced guest list (and that's seeming more and more likely as we watch how this thing continues to unfold around the country) then we might just get married and have the wedding when we can do it the way we want, even if that's 2022. Both my fiancé and I have lost our mothers already, so it's already a source of pain that they will not be present. My big thing is that I want our fathers to be able to be there when we get married. My father is 80 years old and does not get around easily. My fiancé's father is in his 70s and is immunocompromised due to cancer treatments. A small ceremony in the late fall or spring with ONLY our immediate family in attendance might be our best option to insure our fathers can safely attend. But for the celebration itself, my fiancé feels strongly that we don't want to cut our guest list. He wants all our friends to be able to attend. And our venue is a county property through the parks department, so they will have to abide by state and local regulations completely. I'm hoping they'll work with us if we want to postpone the party yet again, because we want to have our event there, but if we lose our deposit, we lose our deposit I guess.
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Savvy October 2021
Cathy · on July 25, 2020 at 8:09 PM
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I'm not postponing the ceremony but might look into pushing the wedding reception party a few months or do a 1 year anniversary
Something like that. Meeting with the venue tomorrow so hopefully I'll have some clarity and decisions to make
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Master October 2021
Sexypoodle · on July 25, 2020 at 9:10 PM
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We were also 10/10/20 but postponed to 10/30/21. Like many others, we tossed around the idea of getting married on 10/10 and then doing something with guests later. But the thought of splitting up the 2 events and having a long gap of months in between wasn’t appealing or exciting (and after getting married, I’d probably skip a future reception). So, for us, it was “one and done” because to keep our vision cohesive, the ceremony and reception need to happen back to back. So we’re pushing the entire celebration out to next fall. Although we’ve always had only 65 guests, we couldn’t properly execute all of the plans we have for hosting a fun destination wedding weekend in Vegas. Surprisingly and thankfully the hotel and all of our vendors were available on the new date, with no additional charges and everyone was totally accommodating.

We loved 10/10/20 because it was a “perfect” and fun date. But now 10/30/21 is truly meaningful and comes complete with a crazy story behind it LOL!! We’re not specifically huge Halloween fans. But (pre-covid) we would host 3-4 parties each year. So, we’ve embraced our “Hallowedding” and decided to host themed costume parties for some of our anniversary celebrations. So now I’m just as excited about the wedding as I am about our future anniversaries.
Best wishes!
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