Calling all 2020 Brides! i need your help!

If you have a wedding website maybe you could put in your invitations something small like “due to the current conditions we face with COVID-19 changes to the wedding day have been implemented. Please refer to the wedding website for more details.”


And then maybe on your wedding website you can say something like this:Hello Everyone,
Due to the current conditions we face with COVID-19 guidelines and social distancing restrictions, we regretfully inform you that our wedding reception will be postponed indefinitely for the safety of our guests. The ceremony will continue to take place on 00/00/0000 date, and seating will follow strict social distancing guidelines. This wasn’t an easy decision to make, but we do feel that our first priority is the safety of our friends and family. If you have any questions or concerns please free to contact us at ( and then put your contact info)

****This wasn’t an easy decision to make and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, but we do feel that our first priority is the safety of our friends and family.********

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Thank you! I like it!

I think you should have a little something food wide for their time. Could you maybe have some prepackaged cupcakes and small bottles of punch or champagne. I can totally understand canceling the reception since cases are up but maybe a little to go favor or some other idea? I like what DJ said and maybe add we do hope you will come celebrate our union.

You can’t have a wedding without some sort of reception. Did you just cancel the reception and are still inviting your entire guest list to your ceremony?


You have a couple options. 1) invite only immediate family and treat them to dinner afterwards
2) invite everyone and have a cake and punch reception at a non-meal time
3) postpone the entire thing and do it all at a later date

If you have a ceremony, you must thank people somehow with food and drinks afterwards.

Hi Taylor! I'd go with a "Change of Plans" card! There you can explain that due to the current health crisis and out of an abundance of caution you've decided to switch up your wedding plans, and include all the new details!

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I am having something small after for about 50 people. I think in these times there is no right or wrong on anything that is done. Pre-covid you can't have a ceremony and no reception. Current covid anything goes. I have had a lot of family already tell me they will come to the wedding and not the reception, and they have no idea I was already tossing that idea around.

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How many people are invited to the ceremony?

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Pandemic or not, there is no alternative to etiquette. If you only invite a subset of people to the reception, it's tiered and its rude. Just cut the whole list down to 50 for ceremony and reception if that's what you're concerned about.

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I don't think so. So I will invite everyone and only a few to the reception.