10/10/2020 wedding- Covid 19

It's all about what matters most to you!!

Is it the event with everyone there that you are dreaming of...or more about "gettin' hitched" part? Vendors should be understanding right now, and we always have Yelp if they aren't lol.

Easing of social restrictions won't mean that the risk of spreading Covid19 is less, so we are planning our June 20th, 2020 wedding with that in mind. We have been engaged for 3 years, and living together for 2 years, and even though all of my family and part of his won't be able to travel to be here, what is important to us now is the ceremony and formalizing our union. We are getting married on Zoom with only our wedding party on that (because it can get super noisy with a lot of people), and also streaming it on FB Live for all the other guests (basically everyone). This includes the ceremony with everyone all dressed up, the reception with BYO food and booze, and dancing (with a DJ taking over Zoom with our playlist). We have a lot of cool places picked out for our "Selfie Photo-shoot Wedding Album" that we have started, and we rented a gorgeous deluxe loft for a few days, in a historic hotel in our town that we would never have a reason to stay at otherwise. If we can be outside we will, but if not (due to guidelines at the time) then there is a large picture window in the room, and we are doing the rose petal turn-down etc for the fantasy suite wedding night and our "for now" honeymoon. We are just going to have a ton of fun with it!!

Hi Emily, I'm truly sorry to hear how you feel. My wedding is July 2021, but I'm already planning a back yard wedding. Even though the pandemic might be over I'm just planning now just to cover myself. I know you might wanted a big wedding, but having an intimate wedding with approximately 50 it's just a beautiful than over 50. You can also go live on social media to cover those who won't be at the house. So just be careful and enjoy your wedding day!!!

I think you are on the right track! My wedding is in November so I feel your pain! It’s too far to make big changes but still close enough to worry about in regards to covid19. We sat down and came up with some backup plans and are still waiting for our venue to figure things out as well. We are hoping to make the call by August or September.

View Quoted Comment Thanks Megan, its stressful and scary..

We were 10/11/2020, but postponed to 9/25/2021. We plan on eloping on 9/25 of this year wherever travel allows, and having a vow renewal/party on our anniversary. We both feel so much better since making the decision and are now excited about getting to celebrate twice! Everyone’s situation is different. We are in MA, which has been hard hit. We will likely be required to wear face masks and social distance for months, even if events over 50 people are allowed. Other states may be different! We didn’t feel like we could have a comfortable event this year, prompting our postponement on the early side so we could get our pick of 2021 dates. We are having a restaurant wedding in Boston, and the process was actually really easy. Good luck to everyone!

View Quoted Comment Wedding twin! We are also 10/24/20 and are coming to talk about postponement but for us it wouldn't be until the following fall. A whole year! I'm heartbroken and have not quite accepted it yet but with VA (northern at that) we won't hit Phase 1 for who knows how long?! This is SO tough!

View Quoted Comment Hi Helena! A ENTIRE YEAR! I am hearing that. Lot and that was one of the reason we decided to postpone earlier than later. We booked our venue about 2 years before, so I figured with all the earlier weddings having to reschedule dates would be limited. I know how you’re feeling and it is tough but I’d rather have it when I am able to have our guest as opposed to 50 or less. I’m addition we are seriously discussing having our actual nuptials on our original date. Good luck be strong in a few weeks you’ll feel more settled with your decision

Ugh I feel this. My wedding is August 21st if this year, I kind of been acting like things will be normal by then if anything maybe venues will have a limit on the amount of people. Our venue is even trying to look for the bright side working with us planning things as usual. Fingers crossed things go back to normal but I can’t help but worry in the back of my mind either. Plan B is to postpone IF they have a person limit and if the person limit is too low.

My fiance and I completely uprooted all the planning we did for October 3rd just last week.. We decided to actually move our wedding UP to August 16th, and cut our 108 person guest list down to 20 people. Our family is from all over the east coast, and putting all those people into one big germy melting pot just did NOT sound safe to me, especially since I just lost my grandfather to COVID-19 last week.... And my grandmother (the absolute light of my life) has COPD, asthma, heart problems. I work in healthcare, so I see what this does to people. And even the SLIGHTEST thought of this possibly coming back in the fall just didn't sit right with me. The safety of my loved ones is more of a priority than anything. Small, intimate 20 person wedding for us. AND best yet, it's saving us $3,000!

Hey ! I having lots of anxiety regarding what we should do. Our venue told us to think about 50-75 people.. when I did that guest list our bridesmaids and groomsmen significant others wouldn’t be there. We really want to get married on the 10/10/20 with some close family in a backyard.. and celebration bigger in April 2021? Ugh

Hi Emily, I have not thought about a plan b. I am set to be married 10/24/2020. I would agree on 30 people as well and maybe set up some kind of video for the ones that weren’t able to physically attend.

One reason I love this website during this time is knowing I'm not the only bride uncertain of what to do. Our wedding is 8.29.20 and what we've decided is to go ahead and plan everything normally and wait til the last minute to change our mind (the last minute means like a week before) our vendors are super flexible with us and understand if we need to change the date for a later reception. If we do change, we will still have a small intimate wedding that day, but a later reception. My personal philosophy is I'd rather wait till the last minute than cancel it now and realize it would have been perfectly fine to have it then.

Emily we were scheduled for July 11th, 2020 in Las Vegas but ultimately decided to postpone our ceremony and festivities with everyone until July 10, 2021 because of all the restrictions that will be in place. We both come from huge families and cutting down our guest list to 50 or not having some important people there due to them being at a higher risk for COVID-19 wasn't going to fly for us.


We are now going to have elope on our date and continue planning to make every detail of our wedding for our 1 yr anniversary amazing.

We also chose not to move to fall or winter because that will be cold and flu season all over again.

We just cancelled our July 2020 wedding. We are completely changing what our wedding will be like - fewer guests, different venue and timeline, etc. We will postpone until summer 2021, but even then, I'm not sure we will be able to have exactly the wedding we want because of this virus. On the one hand, I am super happy that we get a chance to "redo" some of the decisions we made initially that I ended up regretting, but I am also super sad that we have to wait a year to get married. We considered eloping and having a 1 year party, but neither of us want to do that. Family and friends being there is the most important part for us, so we want to make sure that whatever and whenever we do it, they will be there, in really life. We are waiting to book anything until we have more certainty about what gatherings will look like next summer.

We are prepping for our Sept 20 date ... I feel like you will be okay for October... good luck! Great you do have a plan B though

10/24/20 PA bride here. My fiancé and I recently reached out to our wedding vendors to ask about plan B options. We’re also paid up 2/3 payments. Most have been extremely flexible due to the current covid situation and have discussed options for downsizing packages if the wedding can still happen at a smaller capacity, postponing options/policies, and even cancellation/refund policies. I think it’s smart to address it now and have plans in place since we don’t know on how these next few months will play out.

View Quoted Comment I live in PA too and have a sept 18th wedding. The wedding is in Philadelphia which has the highest number of cases in the state. I’m so nervous and not sure what to do at this point. Our venue is remaining hopeful I just don’t see how we can have a gathering of 150 people by September given how slow things are moving here.

View Quoted Comment Hi Pia, I'm also in Broward County. Have you heard any limitations as to the number of guests yet?

View Quoted Comment Hi Denise ! Congratulations 🎉
The last information I heard was that until we were in phase 2 , phase 2 will allow up to 50 people in a gathering . I cannot recall what the count was for phase 3. I’m thinking between 75 and 100. I also think each phase may take 2-3 months.