Sept Brides, how ya feeling?

September 6 bride here too! We’re waiting until at least July to make a decision. We’re hoping for the best and willing to cut down our guest list if absolutely necessary!

View Quoted Comment Yep! Honestly I’d rather have a smaller intimate wedding and still have the reception on the same day too. Just feels more traditional to me

I’m in October and we have created a back up plan with all our vendors. I’m too anxious and impatient to do the whole wait and see. We picked a back up date and have our vendors holding that date so we can make a decision to keep or move once we get closer. We are deciding in August when we will either send out invites or send out postponments. We want a big wedding and have a lot of family so we would rather postpone than have a small wedding. Creating a plan b now and a date to decide will help with the stress of it all!

We are September 12th! We are hoping for the best. Things are looking good for our county in Central Wisconsin. The COVID unit is actually being taken down this week since they haven't had anyone in it in over 2 weeks. We have 150 invited. I think we would be at 130 even without COVID my guess is that now we might be around 120 or so. The other thing that I look at is that venue is huge, max capacity of 600. The way a person that works there emailed me was that even there are restrictions based on capacity limits we should be ok since there is so much space and social distancing if need be can be practiced.

I’m a September 6th bride too. My fiancé was considering postponing but I told him we should wait it out. We are only going to have 50 people or less in virginia. It looks like Virginia can be in phase two by then. Also my venue still intends to hold September weddings.

Chicagoland resident here. We were lucky enough to get married on our original date in April(with 8 guests), but had postponed our big 350 guest wedding to September 13th. We had a call with our wedding planner the other day and she asked if we would be prepared to cut our guest list down to 100 or less and have everyone wearing masks among other things. We would rather have our big wedding that we’ve been planning since January 2019, so we’ve decided to postpone again. This time to July 2021 which I’m hoping is far out enough.


With states opening up prematurely, a second wave is more than likely so I think it’s best to postpone or elope and have a celebration next year.

September 5th in a very small town in CA. Our entire county has only had 8 cases and all but two have recovered so far. Our sheriff is read to open things up just waiting on our governor to let us . We are still moving forward as normal with 130 guest. Our venue is out doors and has plenty of room for people to keep 6 feet apart if they wish.

Mid-MO July bride here! We plan to get married on our date. We have put "coronavirus insert cards" in our invitations to let guests know we're monitoring the situation and if we need to change plans we will reach out to those who have indicated to us they plan to attend. I'm hoping for the best but things are so up in the air right now it's hard to picture how things may be. If needed it'll just be wedding party and family members.

September 19th. I'm waiting til July before I have to consider postponing, so right now I'm going ahead as normal. My vendors are optimistic as well. Illinois is in its 2nd month of lockdown, which has me more optimistic that it'll be over by September since we're taking more precautions in clearing it out.
We've already decided that worst case scenario we'll just get married on the date and do the reception later.
The closer we get the more hopeful I am.

View Quoted Comment I’m 9/19 as well! Although I’m not very confident. I’m in Mass and we are still in stay at home mode. The plan is to eventually start reopening in phases. I’m sure things will be open by then but i don’t want guests to be uncomfortable, have to wear masks or ya end up having to cancel after putting more money down than we already have. I’m almost thinking cut our losses now instead of pay thousands more and just have to postpone in the end. We are considering just having a small backyard ceremony with immediate family and a party later when we can. I just don’t want to keep wondering. I’d rather cancel now and avoid the stress but that’s just me! Hope it all works out whatever everyone decides!

Hang in there, with the sates opening up anything can happen by September.

September 6 bride too!! I'm in the same boat, some days I feel optimistic and some days I just feel like cancelling the whole thing because this is so stressful. Similar guest count, 158 people to be invited. We're in New Jersey and most of our guest list is fairly local or within an hour or two driving distance. We are going to be talking to our venue coordinator to see what other couples have been doing and what our options are if we choose or need to postpone. I really don't want to postpone because I don't want to risk losing any of our vendors if they aren't available for the new date, but I also don't know that even if we can have the wedding many people will feel comfortable attending. I wish there were some right answers here!

Also September 6! Trying to stay hopeful but with our governors release of our Phase 5 reopening plan, I don’t know how to feel. We need to be in Phase 5 to have our wedding with all guests (~160 invited + vendors) and we won’t get to Phase 5 until there’s a vaccine or an effective and widely available treatment. I know a lot can change in 4 months so we’re trying to hold out until July before making any big decisions. We’ve both agreed that we’re getting married this year regardless but Im just keeping my fingers crossed everything can go as planned on the day!

I feel September will be fine. Our date is 9/3/20 & since we have a very small wedding planned I’m not concerned. My planner is not either.

I'm September 26th! I am holding out. We still sent our Save the Dates and I have a portion of my wedding website geared for updates as to which plan we will do. Our state is still shut-down, but they are re-evaluating on 5/8. I have sectioned off my guest list into 3 categories: Plan A (original list), Plan B (group <50 - family and wedding party only), and Plan C (<10 - immediate family only). It is hard for me to get excited about planning when I can only buy things online and can't do wedding stuff.

Hang in there! we still have months to go!

This is 100% me as well. I have been super optimistic about the whole situation but yesterday I struggled hard. We are inviting people via postcard and sending them to our website for updates. We will have to decide probably a month out I figure. We're having it on my parents land and don't have many big vendors we are working with so I figure a month is close enough to cancel if we totally have to.

Freaking out. Now on top of the COVID-19, which is horribly bad!!!!, I have my dad( who I’m not close with) diagnosed with an aggressive cancer on bladder/prostate etc, my moms surgery didn’t help her as much as we’d hoped, and I have now been told my hip IS surgical and has to be dealt with!!! The recovery for a “normal healing person” is 12-14 WEEKS... for me it is 16-20!!
We are supposed to get married September 19,2020.... in UPSTATE NY.... at a casino/resort.

So I am trying my best to NOT panic and become immobilized depressed and not reallllllly succeeding- sadly.

May you be better at it than me and the wedding of your dreams go off without a hitch!!!!!!

We were 10/11/2020 and postponed to 9/25/2021. We are planning to elope ourselves wherever travel allows this 9/25 and do a vow renewal/party on our 1 year anniversary so the date is significant. It was a tough decision, but it seems unlikely to have a normal event this calendar year. We didn’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable or have to wear a face mask, which seems very likely at this point! So, to avoid the anxiety and later scramble, we made the call now. I also work in healthcare in MA and have seen the worst of the worst, so I am probably less optimistic about the trajectory than most. Good luck to all!

September 5th here, we are waiting untill l end of June beginning of July to make a decision.

Another September 19th bride. Tennessee just lifted their safer at home and things are starting to open back up. We’ve invited 165 and are still planning for the 19th. My venue is outside and the owners are offering discounts at their other venues to help displaced brides so as long as the venue is game so are we. I had a conversation with my fiancé the other day because I’d be so disappointed if I didn’t get my big celebration. I know we’re all feeling the stress right now