California Brides

I live in San Joaquin county (45min from bay area) Our day was April 4th and because the stay at home orders started we had to postpone. At first we were thinking to get married in our backyard April 4th but my pastor was stuck in Chicago andd her mother in law passed (non covid related). So then we thought what if we cancel, welp if we cancel we dont get our deposits back & all that money is lost + all the money spent on diy and self bought items like plates and silverware.
So we postponed until October 3rd and decided to elope at the courthouse on June 4th our original anniversary date but doesn’t seem like thats going to happen. So we might do it in our backyard (which may or may not still happen).

Anyways I feel nervous. If we have to postpone again maybe we will outright cancel. This was a hard move for us because my FH didn’t want to postpone like at all. He wanted our money back & to be done with it but since that wasn’t going to happen I convinced him to postpone & that it would be my birthday gift because my bday is Oct 8th. I feel nervous hearing “the 2nd wave of the virus AND the flu in the fall is going to be twice as bad”. Im trying to keep my head up and look past it and ride it out until August to see what’s really expected to happen. At least in my area fall is not like typical fall, well maybe most of CA is, but over hear October is still 85degrees+. Im nervous about guestcount restrictions and what will be allowed by October but even if its 50ppl, I think we want it over with.
Good luck to u.

I am in Lake County CA our date is 9/5/2020. We are still moving forward as planned but I have made a back up guest list in case we are limited. Our current guest count is 130

We postponed daughter's wedding from June to August and are hoping to be able to have at least 50 ppl. It's an outdoor ceremony/reception on 5 acres, so social distancing is not a problem, although not ideal either. Unfortunately, it's in Alameda County, one of the strictest counties in CA for lifting restrictions. At this point, she is not postponing again. Yesterday's projections by governor seemed hopeful...

December wedding in Lake Tahoe, Placer County. Placer County hasn't been hit that badly from the virus so I am hoping it stays this way.

My venue did close down after mid March when the governor closed the state. They are supposed to re-open this summer but I'm worried if things get bad again they will close again.

I am looking to see how they will handle weddings this summer though. I have about 130 people invited, 95% are coming from out of state or out of country, so that makes it harder to know what will happen especially if borders stay closed.

I have done most of my planning though and I have all vendors booked, so it's just decorations left really and then timelines. I am still lightly planning but have decided to stop buying things until the summer is over so I don't spend too much money if we end up having to cancel.

FH and I have talked lightly about having to cancel/postpone and no matter what we decided that we will at least get married legally this year.

I live in Los Angeles, but my wedding venue is in Simi Valley. My original date was June 20, 2020. My venue let me pick a back up date, so I picked from whatever dates she had left and chose August 7th. However, I still don't see how I can have a wedding this summer. It just doesn't seem feasible, and my fiancé and I both have family from out of state and out of the country too. Now that almost two months have passed since our stay at home order, I've had time to think things through logically and rationally rather than emotionally and all the crying I had done. With that said, I decided to just postpone for June 20, 2021. The date and season is important to me as that is when I want to get married. Plus, I still haven't had my bridal shower or bachelorette party in Vegas, and I don't see how both are possible even before August (my "backup date"). Postponing for next year was that LAST thing I wanted to do, but the wedding itself is very important to me, and I would regret it if I didn't have my dream wedding. But there are silver linings to my postponement. We will be able to buy a house this summer since we're saving a lot of money since we aren't doing anything and still getting a salary. I'll also be able to save more money for my wedding, so it will be bigger and better than ever. And also save for our honeymoon! Not to mention my bridesmaid cousin will be 21 this year, so she will be able to come to Vegas for the Bach. Lots of good coming out of this, so I'm happy and in much better spirits than before. I hope you find your silver linings, and if you do want your dream wedding, I would suggest you postpone for next year. It will take off so much stress by doing so. I can't imagine trying to have a social distancing wedding. That's not what I want my wedding to look like.

I'm getting married 10/10/2020 and live in Sacramento, but my venue is in El Dorado county. My venue is still closed (they are a small business restaurant, not doing any curbside pick-up that I know of) and the only way to reach the owner is by phone call. They are not reachable by social media or email, so I haven't been able to contact them at all about postponing, or other possible plans. But, since other places are starting to open up in these next few weeks I am hopeful that they are too. I'm hoping I can still have my wedding there cause I fell in love with the venue the first moment I saw it. If not, our plan b is to get married in our backyard on our original date. Not ideal, but can still look pretty if we do some landscaping. I'm not even sure if I'll feel happy postponing till next year, so I'm still conflicted on what to do. I was planning on inviting about 45 guests to begin with before this whole pandemic, and my dream wedding was to just have an intimate small ceremony/reception with just our close family/friends. For now, I am just riding this out and waiting till end of July early August to see how things are. Then from there make a decision.

I'm getting married on August 8. My venue is in LA County (border of LA/San Bernardino/Orange counties really). They had shut down from March - June with events resuming as of July 1. They're planning on evaluating at the end of every month if things need to be adjusted. So right now, I'm going on as planned. If we postponed right now with them, it'd cost us more in the long run as they'd charge us for 2021's pricing and we have other more important things to spend our money on.

My fiancé and I agreed to get married on 8/8/2020 no matter what (it'll just be in my parents' small backyard with his parents) if the venue requires us to postpone and reschedule a vow renewal in a year. (I'm assuming they'd honor our existing price rate as it wouldn't be us choosing to reschedule.)

I have days where I'm totally stressed and others, like today, where I'm fine and just going with it. It's all still unknown and it's hard to gauge, by I'm just being hopeful.

Feb 2021 wedding in Fresno, CA. Things are going as planned, and I am still planning as usual, booking vendors and so on, but it has been getting harder getting in touch with said vendors, and my dad who is really paranoid about the whole situation, has been desperately trying to encourage me to move the date of the wedding to April of 2021. I'm not doing that. If my fiancee and I will have to postpone, which I highly doubt, we will most likely go for having a micro wedding instead. If anything, my venue is still closed, and all I want is to desperately tour my venue.

Hi! Live in LA and we postponed our wedding from 08/01/2020 to 07/17/2021. It was hard to except, but honestly once it was all set and done my anxiety and anxiousness went away. I can't get my dress altered any time soon, can't book the last things we wanted to do and can't truly enjoy all the festivities leading up to it. My photographer made such a good point on how our pictures won't be organic and having something loom over your wedding is something you don't want to remember. I also read an article that really helped me put things in perspective and answered questions for me –– I will link it below! Good luck and I hope this helps somewhat!

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums/june-couples-postponing-due-to-covid-19-encouragement/e2e6a03e5635af33.html

My original wedding date is Oct.23rd, however I feel the need to postponing it. I dont want to put anyones health at risk. Also, i have not gone dress shopping, plan my bechelorette, gone shopping for any other things, etc . I am 5 months until the wedding day and i just don't feel it ! Fiance and i have decided to get married through court still in October and have church & reception in sometime in April, however I have been planning my Wedding with Fall colors, etc. Would it look weird if i still kept those colors for an April wedding?

My wedding date is 09.05.2020, currently with no plans to postpone...yet. I am having a difficult time coming to terms that a guest list would need to be cut to half capacity (we had 200 people originally) and this makes my FH and I want to postpone. It does seem a little early to postpone currently, news changes everyday but things do not look too optimistic for later this year with a second wave of Covid 19 coming. My family in the Central Valley (Stanislaus County) are all going stir crazy so I think everyone would still want to attend a wedding, but if my venue says half capacity only, it would not be the same celebration that my FH and I envisioned for our wedding day, regardless of our love for one another it would still not be the same without friends and family all together. Lots to think over, and it's frustrating sometimes to think the decision is out of our hands. These are definitely the days that I wish I had invested in a planner!!

Our wedding is set for 10/17 in Sonoma, CA. We are cautiously optimistic but have a plan B just in case. I think we'll make a final call in the next few weeks as things are changing daily. It's so hard to plan for anything right now but we of course don't want to have to cut our guest list but more importantly don't want to put anybody at risk. Our plan B is to potentially get married the weekend of our wedding shower (8/1) since my fiance's family is already planning to come down from Vancouver BC. If all is okay with traveling and small gatherings I think we'll go ahead and have our ceremony at the church and then postpone the big celebration until next year. Again, so hard to even plan for 8/1 since who knows what the gathering & travel restrictions will be like! Overall we are okay with our plan B and know that we'll just have to be flexible. Good luck to you all! Everything will work out!

I’m a late June bride. Smaller wedding under 80 people. Venue says we should be okay to move forward as planned so I’m holding up hope

Hi We live in Contra Costa County (Bay Area). We postponed our wedding rom July 25, 2020 to July 24, 2021. It was hard decision to make, but done. We are still getting legally married on July 25, 2020 most likely in our backyard. This has given us the motivation to move on fixing the backyard. We plan to still have my brother officiate and most likely have our parents present. We will then have the big ceremony we planned and reception next year. It took a bit of time for me to grief. I am good with the decision we made for us. I will be going to get my wedding dress next Friday from the bridal shop. I don't know how I will feel as I will need to store it safely. I will be leaving it at my mother's.

Good luck to all and stay safe.

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I hope so! Good luck!

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I just picked up my dress too and I am also a little nervous about storing it appropriately! I am sorry you had to move your day but it sounds like a great plan!

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I don't think so! You can always add some brighter florals to make it a little more spring-time. I think at this point there are no rules! Haha! Good luck!

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Thank you. I hope you are able to make the plans work best for you and your FH.

August 16th, 2020 with the ceremony in Santa Barbara, CA and reception in Ventura, CA. Still going along as planned, but preparing for the worst. We have a small guest list of 50 and wedding is outdoors. Hoping for the best!

8-8 in Napa Valley, really really hoping things will go well. The county itself has slightly better stats, but who knows. I'm redoing my guestlist to 50 now.