August Bride- Riding it out...

View Quoted Comment Same here. I figured yellow phase by June and praying green as well to be in July and August!! Oh the nerves

View Quoted Comment Right !! I truly isn’t don’t even feel excited anymore.. I just at this point am over it because all I do is stress.

View Quoted Comment I know what exactly what you mean, I’m still over the moon that I’m getting married but its hard to get fully exciter because of the unknown. I think certain parts in PA will okay for August. We just don’t want to wait another year to plan all this over. Praying green allows more than 25 to gather

If you listened to Dewine yesterday, there was mention of something in the works in. A process similar to restaurants so we will see how that goes.

View Quoted Comment Thank you for all that you do! I have the same mindset as you.. even if it ends up in our backyard.. it’ll be one hell of a party! 🥳

View Quoted Comment Yeah I’m interested to hear. My concern is that we do not have a full service venue. There’s no staff present during the event. I am not sure how that will operate if no one is there to enforce restrictions. I imagine they will either 1. Not open. Or 2. Make us sign a waiver stating we will enforce restrictions. They coulddd hire or bring in staff but I doubt it.

We postponed our 3/28/20 wedding till 8/1/20. We got legally married at the course when we decided to postpone our 3/28/20 wedding till August. Does anything think they can actually have their August 2020 mostly as they planned? My husband’s family and friends are mostly in Tennessee and most of my family and friends are from greater NYC and NJ. My parents have already told me they struggle to see a world where they are comfortable traveling. I can’t imagine postponing again. It’s been such a roller coaster. We are debating whether we should just cancel, and my husband and I got down to Nashville to take pictures with our photographer since we did not where our outfits to the courthouse, or plan something smaller. Honestly planning something smaller almost seems
More stressful right now but I don’t want to regret it either.

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Great idea about emailing the governor. Just emailed him and will keep sending daily. Sending good vibes to everybody during this time

Our wedding is August 21st and I have anxiety over what to do.

View Quoted Comment Girl me too!!! I keep thinking how much easier it would be to just cancel our venue and start preparing for a backyard bash. Ughhh

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I would love to cancel, but unfortunately we don't get a refund. Cancelling and just getting married in the backyard would make things so much easier! I am thinking of asking the venue if whoever responds "yes" to the RSVP can just come, lol. We live just outside of Chicago and are literally the only state that hasn't started re-opening.

View Quoted Comment Oh wow I’m sorry! I guess we are lucky that our venue is offering a full refund. This is all so stressful and it’s ridiculous

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I agree! I hope your plan works out!! All of us brides deserve an amazing day!

View Quoted Comment Thank you! I hope all works our for you as well.

We are August 28, 2020 in NJ. As of today, there is no reopening date with the state. We are just waiting. We are hoping we can have our church ceremony and possibly have to cancel the reception. We do not want to wait another year and I feel like it will not be the same. Plus in another year, how do we know it will not come back? That is why we are doing everything we can to keep our date.

I've been following this thread to try to get me feeling hopeful again. I felt bad because I unloaded my feelings on my FH and made him depressed. I feel really hopeless and I told him that unless the gathering limit starts to slowly increase I feel like our Ohio September wedding won't happen. If we're still limited to 10 people, we decided that we'll have an intimate elopement. No reception, not even a year later. Money is factor because we would be paying extra to postpone...if we have to, we'd rather cut our losses. It's depressing, but I guess I feel better knowing we have a Plan B just in case. I want so badly to be positive but it's just so hard

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I have previously emailed him 3 times and have yet to get a response. I am so tired of him dancing around the questions. OK is going to phase 3 in June. I understand people have to be kept safe and the virus is real. But if people don't feel comfortable I they can not attend. We need direction. I will continue to email him.

We should also contact our local senator's congressman.

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Try to stay hopeful we have a little ways to go yet. There are no limits for weddings only receptions. I am inviting everyone to the wedding even if we can't have a reception. I will have a small dinner after if this cracker jack doesn't open it up. He has to. No way are the casino's and night clubs going to go until even July like this. He will get massive push back not only from the people but his own party, and he already is. He MUST open all businesses. That includes venues. Maybe not a 200 person reception but under 100 I think is doable. I am having my wedding regardless on 10/31/20. I have 7/31/21 set as a back up for a celebration only. Like a bbq with the band etc. But not even sure I want to do that. But that is my plan b. Hang in there.

View Quoted Comment Ugh yes. I have been extremely stressed today. Looked into backyard ideas and tents are so expensive I got frustrated and gave up lol I hate that some other states have everything planned up until July/August and we have nothing. You hang in there as well. We can do this