August Brides, What are your plans due to Covid-19?

We are the middle of August but luckily we live in rural Kansas and all of our vendors have been very understanding. I find myself saying a lot I’m so glad I live in rural Kansas and After reading this thread I am even more glad that I don’t have vendors that are booked out the whole year and only letting brides reschedule within a certain time frame.


I am not worried yet. We were suppose to get married in May and I was so stressed back in March.. so for now I am at ease with waiting it out. Unfortunately I need to reorder invitations at the end of May since I went with a custom design it’ll take a few weeks to get, so I’m sure the pressure will be on soon. I’m hopeful we will be able to have our wedding but I could be wrong.
August, we will get married no matter what.

My fiancé and I had planned on August 1st, and this entire situation has been a mess for us.
We finally made the decision today to postpone our wedding until later on. To be honest, I do feel relieved and like I’m not as stressed now. I’m definitely still emotional about it, though.
But I’m excited that when we finally get to have our wedding, we’ll get all 200+ people and be able to have the wedding we’ve been dreaming of together.

View Quoted Comment Thats our wedding date, and we are starting to make back up plans in case of a second wave

My wedding is supposed to be 10/24. My FH and I haven’t postponed yet but we’re leaning more towards it every day. We’re trying to wait until the end of July to make a decision because there’s just so many unknowns!

This whole thing is very scary and frustrating.

Being in upstate, your timeline may vary from NYC metro area - I'm not sure how Cuomo will handle it. That said, both NY and NJ are openly discussing guidelines for reopening, slowly. NJ does not yet appear to have hit any of the first goalposts, but we now know what they are. So, some hope?

The best plan seems to be: Have a Plan B, be flexible, and don't make decisions until you *have* to.

Good luck!

I totally understand, my wedding is supposed to be August 16th too! At first I felt like I was losing my mind, especially because my wedding is a destination wedding on the beach in NC. After trying to predict the future, reading every article and listening to every scientists prediction I could find I decided that it was just too far out to even know. At this point our wedding is still 110 days away and that is a lot of time for change. Who knows it could even be enough time for a second wave of Covid to start for the early fall/winter season. I've decided to wait until July and save any worry until then. Good luck to you with your special day!!

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It's the opinions that kill me! Some of my friends have been so amazing and understanding; confirming my feelings of being disappointed. Others just are like "what's the big deal, get legally married and have the party later." I want to be like, that's easy for you to say now that you've had your time. For me, getting married means starting a family and I feel like doing the party later may not happen if (hopefully) we get pregnant right away. We postponed from May until October. If in October it's still not ok to have our big party, I'll settle for a very small ceremony and call it a day. Just hope his parents can get here in NY from California. We made our call mid April for our end of May wedding. It's very hard to make the decision but waiting a little longer makes sense.

View Quoted Comment I feel your pain on the frustration of waiting to start a family. I’m 34 and my fiancé is 40... we are postponing until next year and honestly the biggest letdown is waiting another year to have a family. We’re not getting any younger over here!!! Just try to focus on the words of encouragement and do what will make you and your fiancé happy. It’s ok to feel sad/disappointed.

I’m also an Upstate NY August bride. Our date is August 15, and our venue is my fiancé’s farm, so we have a little flexibility. Some of Cuomo’s recent statements about reopening regions of NY depending on virus activity by area have given us some more hope lately. I’m still concerned about our large 150-200 person guest list not being an option, especially since we sent out save the dates so reducing could be awkward, but I think the numbers will reduce naturally based on travel concerns or personal risk factors.


We’re planning what we can for now but also open to the idea of a small elopement this summer and a vow renewal ceremony and reception next spring.

My wedding is planned for 8-8-20. We've been engaged since 8-4-18 as our venue books out two years. We're still planning as usual, although I haven't mailed out invitations yet, but plan on doing so early to mid May. I spoke with two of my bridesmaids today, one lives in TN and one in SC. They will be traveling the furthest for our VT wedding, and they both plan on traveling for our wedding at the moment. One of my BMs works in the ER here in VT and said our hospital had intended to hire additional nurses but cancelled because of the low census here. Our governor make the stay at home order early and made big box stores like Target and Walmart close their non essential aisles (makeup, electronics, clothing, shoes, etc) so a lot of people have followed the order really well.

If our wedding plans have to change, my FH and I are still going to get married on our original date with our parents and siblings, and then plan our vow renewal and reception at a later date. Because the venue books our so far we won't wait another two years, so we'll through a backyard wedding somewhere.

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We are in the same boat - 8/14/2020 in IL. We are worried about people traveling and having to decide if they feel safe to be at our wedding and don't feel like that's a good feeling to have at our wedding if they decide to travel or not - We're planning to make a final decision by June 1 and go from there. We are planning a small ceremony this year and then doing a vow renewal/reception as normally planned a year later - not ideal but we want our guests to be able to enjoy themselves at our wedding and not be nervous/worried at our celebration.

View Quoted Comment Hi McKenzie!
Where in Oregon are you located?
My wedding is on 09/22/2020 as well and I'm in Oregon too!I'm hoping by then August things will be slightly better... just a tad bit and you having your wedding on your parents property, I think will work out !

Hi fellow August brides! My date is 8/1 in Virginia...not sure if we are postponing yet. Our venue isn't allowing us to make that decision yet and they haven't given a clear picture of when they will be rescheduling August events. I asked them in writing and on the phone and no clear answer was given. They said they are following the guidelines of the government and since nothing has been stated about August they are planning for business as usual. It's really stressful because I can't currently get the wheels turning on a plan B like I want to...We have paid for most of the venue rental (last payment is July 1st). Invites were going to go out in early June.

Any advice? Also, is anyone else's venue not being flexible or communicative regarding postponements?

View Quoted Comment We’re getting married in Newberg! What about you?

View Quoted Comment Newberg, nice!
I live in Portland !

View Quoted Comment We’re both from Portland! We moved to Montana for my FH’s work but hoping to be able to move back by next year! We miss Oregon, it’s not the same out here 😂

View Quoted Comment Hey girl! We’re the same date in Chicago! I feel you on the stress, our vendors suggested that we wait a bit but it’s INSANELY stressful.

View Quoted Comment Yes our venue told us that nobody has canceled for July either yet and they are fully booked!

I think it just depends on your guest list, location, and what you are picturing for your day. I live in Mass and I know at least for myself Im gonna be wearing a mask until we get a vaccine. Sounds crazy, but we are a very hard hit state. I moved our date twice; now it's next year. We are marrying in July on our original date, but the big party will be 2021. By then there should be no social distancing, no masks, no fear, and no guests unable to make it due to travel restrictions. Also there will (hopefully) be a vaccine and this will be behind us. We really want the big party and I want everyone to come. Ive spent too much money to not have this moment. Yes it sucks to move it to a vow renewal type day, but theres not much we can do to change it. One day it will be a story to tell our grandkids.

View Quoted Comment I’m with you! MD bride as well...the was our Governor is managing this, we aren’t having big gatherings anytime soon (no judgement-safety first)!


We were about to book our venue (9/5/20) when all this started...sad...but we still have hope that we can do something, even if it’s smaller than our already intimate day...or just push it back a few months...