Positive Post Amidst Covid-19 - Micro Weddings

I’m so sorry about your jobs and praying this virus is contained even faster so you can back on your feet. Like you, we are still getting married on June 7th. Just having the reception later in the year. Prayers to you sis that your wedding ceremony will be beautiful and peaceful!

But if all this continues, then we will probably just cancel. It’s too stressful and financially draining.

Micro weddings unite! We are postponing our May reception but I'm marrying my FH even if there are meteors raining down from the sky!

Currently, our guest list is itty bitty. Just immediate family, two lifelong friends, and the officiant. As it gets closer and we see what kind of restrictions are lifting, we might invite some more people to the intimate wedding, but it wouldn't exceed 20-30 people for sure. Just a small ceremony, and dinner.

I'm trying to see the plus side! We technically get two special days that celebrate our love, and we'll get a lot more family time and togetherness on the more intimate day, since it won't be one event after another.

I was already having a very small wedding as it was lol. We are still keeping our date but with hardly anyone there, It does make me sad to know that my baby sisters won't really be allowed into the church, but who knows how long this will last and i can't picture not being with him anymore (him and i don't live together). I can't wait to marry him next sat. A very intimate wedding.

View Quoted Comment Thank you! That's what we're praying for as well. We're just happy we can still do SOMETHING. This is my 2nd marriage and I did courthouse the first time (thank God) so I'm really trying to stay away from doing that again.

View Quoted Comment Yes. I totally understand. We've had to change our wedding plans a few times already so after this pandemic I'm just like please stop!

View Quoted Comment Yes! Intimate ceremony and dinner. Our ceremony definitely won't exceed 30 but we might invite a few extra for dinner that want to come celebrate. We're looking into giving our minds and wallets a break and have our reception on our 1yr anniversary or something. Give us time to recoup.

View Quoted Comment Oh ok. Totally understandable. Still quite exciting and I'm so happy for you. May everything go as planned and turns out more magical than you dreamed!

I am sorry to hear that you guys were affected in more ways than one, with being laid off and having to cancel a large wedding. I know this must be a difficult time, but I admire your positivity and will to spread that around to others going through similar situations!

My fiancé and I had a moderate sized wedding planned for June of this year. Given the circumstances, we have decided that we will postpone the reception until the fall and have an intimate wedding in my parents' backyard on our originally planned date. We are going to definitely keep it below 25 people, but will likely invite the full bridal party, our parents, and some grandparents (depending on what the situation is like in June). Most of our bridal party is our siblings and the others are our closest friends, so it makes sense of us to have all of them there as planned. It's not the dream wedding we had finished planning and couldn't wait for, but we are looking at it now as if we get to have two weddings and two celebrations! I hope you still have a beautiful and amazing day, and I know I'm actually excited to have a small, intimate wedding first because I think it will feel even more special.

View Quoted Comment Thank you! I greatly appreciate it. Backyard wedding sounds gorgeous. We don't even have a bridal party anymore so I'm sad about that. Since its intimate now, my side is family based and then my FH has his side which is practically friends. He doesn't have anyone really outside of his parents. We're sure it's still going to be just as great and im still super excited.

This sounds like a great fit for you. We'd love to have a micro wedding but our VIP guests are in high risk areas and would need to travel, so at the point at which it becomes safe for them to come we'd probably be able to have our larger event. If our parents and wedding party members were all local the micro wedding would have been an obvious choice for us.

View Quoted Comment Looking forward to it. At least your event wont be postponed forever and I'm sure it will be extravagant! It's just unfortunate that it has once again been "extended" out to july/august. Not surprised at this rate but no one knows for sure when this will be over and it's extremely frustrating.

Sorry to hear about your jobs and the scaling back of the big day. This is such a crazy time for everyone. It's good that you have each other to comfort during this time. I'm finally warming up to the idea of a micro-wedding after my FH discovered the concept this week and now I'm googling like crazy for ideas to make it special. Our June wedding will more than likely be just family and close friends with the larger reception some time in the future when life is back to "normal" - probably for our anniversary in 2021. I'm curious to know from those having micro-weddings, are all your guests local or are you having people fly in? All of my family is on the east coast and I'm wary of my parents and grandmother traveling 6 hours, but they want to. Interested know what the rest of the couples are planning as far as out of towners.

View Quoted Comment It will still be very special no matter how big or small. There's a few of our guests driving and flying in from out of state. We'll be having a 2 hour ceremony event and then a dinner. We will be hosting a bigger reception later down the line. How many guests are you looking into?? You could do courthouse or elopement/micro wedding certain venues. Have you seen anything you're interested in??

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We're probably looking at 30 people or less - just depends on who still feels comfortable traveling/attending, I suppose. We'll still get married at the church we intended, and may have to do an outdoor BBQ for the reception if restaurants still aren't open. The dinner / celebration part is still up in the air to do that with limited places open. We may have to wing that part as it gets closer.

View Quoted Comment Same with us. It's about 30 of us. Our wedding isn't until next year but we had to cancel the big one since we could no longer pay it off as intended so we decided to to intimate. An outdoor BBQ actually sounds great. I wish you the best of luck and I'm sure it'll come out amazing no matter what!