Hello everyone, I want to first say I love WW forums! I have learned so much and I’m very thankful!
Secondly, my wedding was going to be 6-13-20. We made the decision yesterday to postpone it to next April due to Covid 19. Our venue requires total guest count one month in advance so we were supposed to have been mailing out the invites by this week.
There were limited days available with our venue for the rest of this year as well as we don’t know if it will be better this year or not anyways. I didn’t want to just keep postponing it and continue to stress about it as well as our colors would not go with a fall wedding either..
So what is keeping me up at night is, I was really wanting to keep our original date to get legally married with just our immediate family. BUT I still want the ceremony as we have planned at our venue next year. We have a bridal party and they have already bought all their attire as well. I want to wear my wedding dress on this day and a different dress for the smaller ceremony if we decide to do that. I have looked up if this is acceptable and it seems to be alright If our guests know in advance and especially with the unknown of the covid 19 and having to postpone due to this pandemic. I’ve seen where it would be a vow renewal, celebration of marriage, formal ceremony or symbolic wedding ceremony... I just am so confused and don’t know if we should just wait until next year for everything. I am in my early thirties and originally thought we would be TTC this year. We have our honeymoon booked already for this June in DR and then was told by my doctor we would have to wait 6 months after getting back from there to TTC due to Zika virus. Our trip is refundable if we have to cancel it or postpone it so that is good news. Our venue is NOT refundable if we were to just cancel with them.
Sorry if this is long and rambling I just really want to be etiquette savvy and not feel weird or people feeling a certain type of way if we get legally married and then later have a formal ceremony and reception as originally planned. Would the invitation wording have to be different?
Stay safe everyone and thank you for any guidance in advance!
