April brides - are you rescheduling?

View Quoted Comment I understand feeling lost for sure..I go back and forth everyday! We have not sent out the invites. They are sitting in a box with stamps on them. It’s like I’m just waiting for a miracle or something. We have 30 invites that are for sure going to be sent out, and another 10 we might send out later if more people are able to get the vaccine. I’m thinking 1 more week, and I pull the trigger on the invites.
My MOH told me that she won’t feel comfortable coming if I invite more than 30. 😰
When are you going to send yours?

View Quoted Comment Where did you find your custom mask? I saw some on Etsy that were pretty cool, but wondering if there is something cheaper than what I saw.

View Quoted Comment We move it from March to October. Thoughts anyone? Safer by then maybe?

View Quoted Comment We decided to move it to feb. 2022. Our fear was that things will start getting better by October but not so much that things would really be any different

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I'm just going through etsy. There are some cheaper options elsewhere, but I'm a stickler for a good cloth mask.

My wedding date is the exact same as yours and we are absolutely celebrating! Go for it girl, regardless you will have a great day with a lifetime of memories!

I’m not an April bride but a January one! I am not canceling but I got engaged in May and planned my entire wedding to be very Covid friendly.

Hey Candance! My case is differente, i'm not from USA, so legally we HAVE to get marry before March. We knew we probably will have a small wedding cuz the Covid, not worry or sad about it. We are excited about it, We r going foward!! In my personal opinion, in April everything is gonna be just as right now with Covid. Good luck!!!

Hi! We postponed our Sept 2020 wedding to April 2021. In doing so, we reduced our original 300 person invite list to 100 person invite list (inviting 100, but not sure how many will attend).


We are in Southern CA, where covid infections are getting worse, but a lot of weddings and people going out are still taking place...talk about confusing.
Our venue is entirely outdoor so both ceremony and reception will be outside. We are including a Covid Release of Liability with our invitations that must be signed and returned with their RSVP if they want to attend the wedding. It’s absolutely not how we would like to send our invites, but our venue is requiring a release and I am including verbiage that states that guests agree they will not attend if they’ve tested positive or are experiencing symptoms within 14 days or less from the date of event. My venues attorney will be reviewing this, we are still working on it.
Safety measures we have in place : individual hand sanitizers for each guest as a “gift”. Pump hand sanitizers at the bar, restrooms, guest book table, dessert table etc.
Masks - tough topic! I ordered 100 masks that I will provide upon entry if anyone wants one. However, I have a hard time with the idea of “enforcing” masks and I have a mixed bag of opinions on this from guests. I think we will just place them on the welcome table, and let people decide for themselves. I personally don’t want to wear one, so how can I force others to if I don’t. But I guess we’ll see if there’s a mandate in place. I will probably ask our vendors that will be in contact with people to wear a mask. Originally I told them it was whatever their protocol was, but that was last year.
Appetizers: we have a charcuterie spread already ordered, but it is spread on a table that’s “serve yourself” so I might rework that idea or provide ample tongs.
Originally we planned on having a buffet, but now we are contemplating a food truck as guests will be able to get individually packaged meals as suggested by covid guidelines. To reduce lines at the truck, and the awkward time of people waiting for their dinner, I think we will just tell guests that the food truck will be serving food from 5pm-7pm, so get in line whenever you’re ready. That way, some people can mingle and get cocktails if they want while some people can get in line for food right away if they want. This also helps with seating at the tables, some people may be seated and eating while others are at the bar or mingling.
Dessert-
Tables/seating - our venue is so expansive that people can pretty much socially distance themselves if they choose too. They can sit in additional lounge seating if they don’t want to share a table. However, I have 60” round tables that I will probably be seating with 4-6 guests each to help space them out.
Seating for the ceremony is a little harder to distance, but people can stand if they don’t want to sit close to someone. Or, if our list is less than 100, I can space out every two seats so couples can sit together with some space around them.
Two of my bridesmaids don’t feel comfortable coming and I may have a third bridesmaid back out. Which I fully respect and understand, no hard feelings at all. I also have family that won’t feel comfortable coming. So that has made deciding to keep our date, despite all our extra efforts, still very difficult. And I still find myself on the fence. At the end of the day, our venue could still cancel our event if the group gathering/wedding restriction isn’t lifted in our county.
I read in another comment that someone might survey their guests to see who is willing to commit to come in April if things don’t get detrimentally worse. I like that idea and I think I might do it. At least it will give me a better idea of who NOT to invite that I can replace with people who were cut from the original list. And if we end up with less than 100 than I’m happy about that. A smaller group and less money spent!
So, we are planning ahead as of now because logistically we need to, however, we’ve prepared ourselves for it to be canceled if it comes to that.
I hope this is helpful!

Our original wedding was March 21st, 2020 and had to postpone just 4 days before. We are in Southern California. We postponed to November but our venue decided to completely cancel on us last April. We searched for a new venue and booked for April 24th, 2021. We were feeling so hopeful until after the holidays and we feel so screwed now. We really dont want to postpone anymore. Our plan was to start trying for a baby shortly after our wedding last year and we even put a hold on that. So this year, we really want to move forward no matter what- big or small. Our only issue is that if our venue (all outdoors) still wont hold our event no matter what size, we really dont know where to even get married. We dont have huge or decent sized backyards to even be able to hold it. Since everything is completely paid for and so many items that will go to waste, I would prefer to still be able to bring some of the things i have come to life and not waste it.

I can’t offer advice, but I do know the feeling and not knowing what to do.


I just found out this week that I may not be able to have the wedding I’ve envisioned. My fiancé and I both have large families, and we were expecting 125-150 guests. I have been really looking forward to our wedding as a time to finally see extended family I’ve been separated from all year. We’ve already booked almost all of our vendors, and have a large deposit on our venue we wouldn’t get back. The venue would let us reschedule, but with an over $500 fee, and I don’t know when/if we’d get all our vendors to line up again.
I’m so lost on what to do, I’m comfortable moving forward and wearing masks, but I live in Kansas City, and for now weddings are limited to 10 people (and that wouldn’t even fit our immediate families). We could fill out an application to have our wedding as we planned and list how we would make the event as safe as possible, but I don’t see that going through. I thought with vaccines coming out that our date was going to be okay.
Our wedding is planned for 4/23/21, and we’ve been engaged for over a year and a half. It’s really important to me to have my family there to support me and celebrate with me on my wedding day.
The most important thing is that I’m marrying the love of my life, my fiancé and I have talked about getting married for years, but waited until I graduated college (kind of wish we hadn’t now..) I just can’t help but be upset about losing the vision of our wedding I’ve dreamt of for so long.

View Quoted Comment It might be worth it to reach out to your venue to see what other dates they have available. It's important for us to have our family there too so we actually did postpone until Feb 2022 😔. Our venue charged us $1500 to reschedule 😳. But I contacted them first for dates, and then contacted my other vendors to see if they would be available on the ones we were interested in. Luckily, they were all available and only our photographer required an additional payment. We just don't know of any other time that our whole families would be together again so the extra cost is worth it to us. But it does suck that we have to wait longer to be married.

We were suppose to get married April 2020 so we decided to postpone it for a year. Now that it is getting closer, it is still a lil nerve wrecking with all the unknowns, but we are still moving forward with it. Our special day is April 28. We have reduced our guest list from 75 to about 40-50. We are both very excited and we went ahead and applied for our marriage license just in case. Last year, we couldn't even get married because the court office had closed. We are prepared in case we have to have a very small, intimate wedding.

We have the same date and are deciding to move forward. Our venue can safely hold 400, we are making accommodations for guests to ensure they are able to mask and social distance.

I’m planning currently for an April wedding 🤷🏻‍♀️ Screw waitin! Lol

View Quoted Comment 😄😄😄 i like your attitude!

We are getting married on April 3, 2021 and have no plans on postponing. We are only doing close friends and family anyway. About 40 people.

Same date, we are keeping ours! Our venue has made great accommodations. We did cancel our honeymoon though

I’m continuing 4•3•21