FH and I are debating where to have our wedding, with 96 days to go. Last week, our venue told us in order to have the wedding there, we would have to cut our guest list to 150 (from 225) to meet social distancing guidelines. Our debate now is if we should move the wedding, which gives us two options.
1. Have the wedding at the venue we already have booked, which would mean cutting 75 people off our guest list. With this we would also have the uncertainty of if the state would impose any further restrictions (I'm from Iowa where there hasn't been many) like a mask mandate or public gathering limit. After my conversations with them, I'm not even sure if dancing would be allowed inside.
2. Move the wedding to FILs house and do a big backyard wedding. This would leave us planning a wedding with less than 100 days to go, but would take most of the uncertainty away being as it would be on private property. FILs property is more than large enough to host an event of this size (perks of living in very rural Iowa). However, it would mean moving the wedding 2 hours away from where it was originally planned, so we would most likely have to start from scratch.
FH will be getting married that day no matter what, we've been engaged since June 2018 and don't want to wait.
What would you do?