August wedding - covid restrictions

Hey! I am getting married on 7/18/2020 and I am in a similar situation. We kept our date, officiant and ceremony musicians. The venue changed. The new venue could accommodate more guests for outdoor dining. I was going to have a band but since we can't dance I decided to just get a Djembe drummer to do a set sort of in the background after dinner to kind of break up the evening. We will also have lawn games available during the cocktail hour and after dinner.

Hi Tara! It may be a slightly different reception than you originally planned, but if you still want to celebrate with your guests I say go for it! ❤️

I like Alisa's idea - you could add a fun live ceremony musician or other fun entertainment elements! And here are a few other discussions with more good reception suggestions:

No dancing.... so games!!

My date was supposed to be 8/7, been trying to cancel for months with no success.

Personally for me, I did not pay all this money to have no dance floor, make all guests wear masks, make people feel uncomfortable, etc. This is not what I signed up for in the wedding contract that we signed.

This whole wedding experience has been a nightmare.

I understand your frustration. It's not what any of us imagined.

We're Jewish and I can't imagine a wedding without a Hora...

We're actually getting married tomorrow and we will be having the reception next year. We decided to go ahead with a very scaled back version (a minimony basically) because we decided COVID or not July 12 would be our day.

Tomorrow we are using a restaurant with outdoor dining for the ceremony and a lunch for about 20 people. The venue we originally booked will be used next year - it's paid for.... If my fh wants to use his lawyerly abilities and fight for money back he can but I'm just exhausted from the whole thing already.

Our date is August 16th. We also would have had one too many restrictions for our wedding, and it wouldn't have been enjoyable. Especially now, things are starting to shut down again. We are still getting legally married on our date, with just us and our officiant and a photographer. We are postponing the big ceremony & reception when it's safe to do so.

Fellow 8/8 bride here! were keeping our date. we were already planning something small (5 guests) but we do have to wear masks most of the time. we also had to cancel our rehearsal dinner bc the restaurant isn't open at this time. those are the only changes I've had so far. hoping it stays that way

Hi again! I posted earlier, stating we decided to go forward with our 7/18/2020 date and arranged to have a 35-40 person wedding at a beautiful historic inn where there is an outdoor courtyard and 40x40 party tent even though dancing was not allowed and masks were required. I thought it would be more convenient and special because then most of us could spend the night in the inn together, and I was stressed at the thought of having my parents host it at their house which is small and the yard is not flat so it's difficult to move outdoors. However, on 7/11/2020 the wedding coordinator informed us we aren't allowed to have lawn games like corn hole and our guests can't mingle, nor can the bride and groom mingle with guests. Our reception went from being an outdoor dinner party to a feeling like a four hour flight. I am upset and frustrated because most of the guests are our family members and we have been mingling with each other for months now. At this point, we are not going to cancel but I wouldn't recommended paying for this kind of situation. To any brides/couples who are deciding what to do, I would do it at home or on private property so you have more freedom.

8/1 wedding here in Colorado. We are allowed up to 125 people in our county, we’ll probably only have about 75.
We will be surveying everyone for symptoms in the week leading up to the wedding, doing a temperature screening at the venue, and our venue might require a waiver of liability.
We will seat families with their own households only and have mismatched tables sizes if we need to.
Our venue will provide masks and sanitizer if people want them but we won’t require it. Everything will be held outdoor, food will only be served so no buffets or stations, we weren't allowed a dance floor but are allowed to let people dance in their own space (just no congregating space), and we will provide two different wristband colors to help signify how people want to interact (blue for open to chatting with others and white for preferring distance and only intra-household interaction).
We’re also getting a Videographer so that we can share the day with family who isn’t able to attend at a later time.

Hope this helps!

This is one of the exact reasons I cancelled by venue, lost my 1200.00 deposit. Moved the reception to the backyard with a tent, dance floor, food and dj with 30 people. Rather do that then spend a lot of money for nothing or have a reception in a hall with 30 individuals were you can't walk around with food/drink and only 10 on the dance floor at a time. My wedding is going to be at a beautiful tudor house with the LOML and my best friend (my doggie). We will have masks and social distancing so I am welcoming anyone that want's to attend the ceremony. In my opinion unless you are getting married in summer of 2021 or 2022 things are not going to be normal.

We pushed ours up til the following year same day... I didn't want to go thru that so we agreed nxt yr is it but the rate of this covid idk what to think just pray it will get a lil better & pray 4 the families who have lost their love ones..