7/11/2020 -covid-19

Hi Josh! Across the board it sounds like July couples are understandably anxious, but keeping their original plans and watching and waiting for now. I think it's great that you have set yourself a deadline for making your decision. Proactively reviewing vendor contracts and thinking about what plan B could look like has also been helpful to some for personal peace of mind!

FYI - We've started gathering initial resources in our COVID-19 Wedding Support Central, and I've also seen a lot of July couples connecting in this discussion: July 2020 Weddings!

My wedding is July 3rd, 2020 in Westchester, NY and 1/4 of our guests are flying in from out of town and internationally. At this point I’m throwing in the towel and postponing tomorrow. The climate right now even if things get better by May isn’t of joy and happiness, but rather fear and sadness. I do not want to have our wedding under these conditions. I foresee too many cancellations and don’t want to put my loved ones health at risk. I am devastated, but it’s the right thing to do.

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Sorry Sasha but you are absolutely right I would too. My wedding is 2021 but if I was getting married anytime between now and September I would have postpone.

I'm also getting married July 11 and as Laura said above we are waiting to see what happens closer to time. We are still moving forward with wedding plans as of now.

Its the uncertainty really, if you move it anywhere this could happen again. Its not like a weather event or anything else. I mean who knows it could come back in the fall or 2021 no one knows at this point thats what scares us the most.

We're getting married July 18th and waiting until early June to make that call. If postponing is necessary, we would still get married civilly on our date and just postpone the big party to the next date all our vendors are available.

View Quoted Comment Thanks for your support Eshell. I was being positive and optimistic too until I found out a friend of mine had a sudden fever for three days and passed away Monday night. Healthy as a horse, 31 year old health conscious fit man. This is serious and I no longer want to be selfish and contribute to putting people in danger. Until it hits close to home, unfortunately people will continue to be selfish. It took this to make me wake up! I’m so sad. Praying for us all.

View Quoted Comment My sincere condolences. Yes this virus 🦠 is REAL. We stay inside. I am working from home. My fiancé due to nature of his job he has to work but he only leave for a few hours and back. We all must take heed and bae very careful and STAY HOME

I feel like with each passing day, the uncertainty grows. We are working out our plan B. While we don't want to get married without our dear friends and family present, we have both acknowledged that the uncertainty of this virus (months? years?) is going to make it really hard for a definite plan. For that reason, our plan B is that we're going to go ahead and get married on our original date, even if it's just our parents and the preacher. That's really what it's all about anyway . Then, we will postpone our reception to the fall along with a sort of marriage blessing/vow renewal in front of our loved ones, hoping for the best, and praying that this virus is all gone. I have thought long and hard about postponing the wedding altogether, but with this uncertainty, I really just want to be married to my best friend and celebrate the rest later if it comes to it.

View Quoted Comment Thank you Eshell. Appreciate it 🥺

I think that's a smart idea to wait it out a bit longer before you make a final decision. your date might be ok or it might not, it's hard to tell at the moment. but if you ever want to feel a bit more assured, it doesn't hurt to also see what your options are with your vendors and venue if you did need to postpone

Our wedding date was also going to be 7/11/20 in the Los Angeles area, but yesterday we made the heartbreaking decision to postpone until 7/10/21. We had two major reasons: 1) we were going to have around 300 guests and a good number of them are part of the vulnerable population, so we wanted to keep them safe and not make them feel like they couldn’t come to our wedding and 2) it seems that even if the world does start getting back to normal by July, everyone will probably still be wearing masks, gloves and having to stay apart from each other which is really just not what we want out of a wedding.


We figured that if we are spending this much money, and since we have waited this long (high school sweethearts that are now 26 and 29 here!) that we should wait until we can have the wedding of our dreams. Luckily, all of our vendors are available on the new date so that part of it was fairly painless. The videographer we REALLY wanted that was not available on our current date is available on the new date, so that was a nice win too. We are currently trying to get bachelorette and bachelor party related expenses refunded.
The reason we chose to postpone for a full year is that 1) they seem to expect the virus to peak again in the fall 2) regular flu season picks up in the winter/spring 3) we are planning an outdoor wedding so combatting weather in the winter/spring would just be another complication 4) they seem to expect that a vaccination will be available in the next 10-12 months, which would theoretically mean everything will be 100% back to normal by then and that we can have a mask -and-glove-free wedding of our dreams.
Sorry for the long post. I have been following this thread for weeks as we tried to decide what to do, and I wanted to share our plan in case it might help anyone else. I hope everyone stays healthy, and I’m rooting for all of us!