Cancel wedding

If I could snap my fingers and cancel this thing, I would. I don't think I've ever wasted this much money in my life.

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I totally understand hold for now. We did postpone our wedding to next year; however, we are going to legally get married on our original date of July 25, 2020 as it is a very important and significant date. Celebrate with family and friends next year. Keeping good thoughts and energy for you.

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Our date June 20, 2020 is meaningful to us as well, so after a long 3+ months figuring out what we were going to do, we finally decided last week that we are going to get legally married on June 20th and then have our full wedding ceremony/reception later this year or next. It just really depends on what things look like in a couple months, but so far, California is starting to reopen, so we will see what happens. I would much rather just have the wedding later this year and whoever comes comes because I just want to get it done. I'm so tired of moving things around so many times.

View Quoted Comment We have the same date. We’re gonna make a decision June 12 of what to do. I really don’t want to postpone. I’m ready to be married.

View Quoted Comment Things are opening up here slowly but surely and that’s giving me some peace! Hopefully we can continue and have our special day!! Sending well wishes!!!🥰

View Quoted Comment I agree. I just can’t chase the unknown hoping for a better date. So we’re sticking with 10/10/20 (with whoever can attend) unless the venue tells us that they’re going to be closed. My belief is that any event in 2020 and 2021 won’t be totally “normal”. So if we have to get some fun custom wedding masks for guests, then that’s what we’re gonna do. But I do not want to wait just to be in the same situation mid-2021.

Update on us...9/27/20 we are getting married. Through heck or high water I will say I do...with immediate family right now maybe more if Texas continues to open up having the after party as soon as we can with everyone...one of our groomsman actually came down with the virus but he’s all good other than the cough best wishes to other brides postponing theirs...I know that’s heartbreaking...

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I have the exact same date and same number of guests! We are willing to cut it to 40 if we need to. We will have been engaged for 21 months at the time of the wedding so I think we will proceed as well as long as our venue is okay with it.

We are waiting for the end of June before postponing for the second time our wedding, currently scheduled for September 26.

View Quoted Comment Wow.... All the similarities!!! 😊 But yes, I can’t go crazy think about all of the “what if’s”. I have to plan like normal and then have my Plan B ready to implement if necessary. Also, I know I’d be totally bummed if I prematurely shifted everything to 2021 right now and then 10/10/20 comes and having the wedding would’ve been totally doable. So I’d rather wait. Plus all of our guests knows what’s going on in the world. So it’s no surprise and it’s not rude if things have to be postponed.

View Quoted Comment Such good insight! Even though things are opening up, it doesn’t mean everything will resume as usual. You’ll also need to consider the additional cost of staff needed to serve the food if a buffet line was your initial plan. Personally, I can’t imagine a reception where there is no dance floor, no hugging, everyone wearing face masks, & standing 6 feet apart. Today we’re making the call to postpone our 09/05 date. As much as my heart hurts, I know it’s the best decision for us and for our loved ones. Wishing everyone the best. Love is not cancelled; love is not postponed.

View Quoted Comment I am with you girl. We don't mind if people stay home, we just want our wedding.

We made the painful decision to move the wedding to May 4th, which is actually our dating anniversary. It's a small destination wedding with 10 people, but 2 of those people are severely immuno-compromised. I just can't ask them to risk flying in September, when we will very likely be facing a second wave of Covid.

Luckily we will not be losing any money. Our coordinator was able to move all of our vendors, our flights are fully refundable/transferable, and our VRBO host will move our date without penalty. The only question now is, do I make new save-the-dates?

Our wedding is August 29th. I am having anxiety of this. I don't want to push back but the same time I am not going to have a wedding with no dancing or socializing! I am waiting until the very last minute to send out our invites. Hoping the lift on restrictions is announced this month for weddings! Trying to be excited but can't get too excited in case we have to push things. I'm just a mess all together here. This is supposed to be one of the happiest moments for me and instead I'm on edge about everything! Wishing us all the best. Try to stick it out, and plan everything like normal and just stay tuned.

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What state are you in? My wedding is also August 29th in Maryland. We've designed our invitations and the company making them is allowing us to not send them out until we are sure of what is going on. I can't spend $1200 on invitations and then get told it isn't happening..I'm not throwing money away. Our venue did cancel all weddings through the middle of July as of last week. So I'm assuming the rest of July and August will be the next to be evaluated. I just don't see my state being in a place where 200 people can be together. And like you I don't want a wedding with social distancing, no dance floor or masks.

View Quoted Comment We're 8/29 and we are currently working with our venue to have a small scale ceremony & maybe 2 hour total reception with appetizers, drinks, maybe our first dance as husband/wife and then a little social distance socializing. First, we are cutting our original invite list down to only immediate family, wedding party, and some other very close relatives & friends (~40 people, down from an original guest list of ~160). It is really important for us to get married this year & have my parents there as they are getting older. Everyone has to make the right decisions for themselves given their own circumstances. I know a lot of couples decided to pick a new date in 2021, but that just isn't what my fiance & I want to do. In the end, we may lose some money, we won't be surrounded by all of our family & friends, and we won't have the 7 hour party, but what we will have is my dad walking me down the isle, a few fun speeches, some food & drinks, but most importantly, the marriage. I can't wait to celebrate in ~3 months. It's going to be a long 3 months of replanning too, but it will all be worth it. Best of luck to everyone on this thread & remember, do what is best for YOU.

View Quoted Comment I had been thinking about your situation recently Kenzie - sorry to hear your venue hasn't allowed you to postpone yet! Have you considered emailing your guests to let them know what's going on? I wouldn't want to buy invitations too only to have them go to waste!

View Quoted Comment My wedding is in Vegas and I just spoke to them and things should be back to normal by September.
We are all traveling from New York .
My bridesmaids are now more than my groomsmen since I have a few cancellations .My brothers traveling from Canada

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Hi Laura!

It is really becoming frustrating. They did tell us they have cancelled weddings through the middle of July as of the last week in May. So I am hopeful they will be finishing July this week and thinking about August within the next couple of weeks. Absolutely, we haven't emailed guests, but put an update on our wedding site. When people ask we just tell them to check that out with the most recent information. Exactly, I can't justify spending that much money, sending them out and then being told my wedding is not happening. I really just don't think in Maryland an August wedding of 200 people will be occurring.

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I agree Kenzie, I really doubt you'd be able to have your wedding in the way that you want to if you kept your date. Your venue should give you the option to make the decision that is best for you! Does your venue have a minimum attendance requirement? If my venue hadn't been accomodating, we were prepared to argue that it's not fair to be penalized for wanting to be proactive about postponing when it is highly unlikely we would be able to make the minimum attendance requirement of 100 persons if we kept the date. Even if there isn't that minimum - you still won't be able to have the wedding that YOU want, and ultimately that is what you are paying for....

Once all this is over (and maybe after your wedding eventually happens) I would definitely post a public review letting other potential couples know how badly your venue handled this situation. In a post-COVID world, if I were to get engaged and start looking for a venue, I would want to know how they handled the pandemic.