Cancel wedding

View Quoted Comment I'm getting married September 12th and I'm not cancelling my wedding.

My wedding is in October 2020, and I have no intentions of canceling or postponing. Stay calm and stay healthy. Every thing will be fine. As long as we work together as a country and do our part, we WILL overcome this. Stay positive and keep your wedding date!

Mine is May 2, 2020 and I think we are rescheduling for August 2020 (if our vendors have any openings). I wouldn’t worry about September!

View Quoted Comment I have the same wedding date as you 9/26/2020. I’m praying everything ok by then.

View Quoted Comment Me too! Praying any moment I can. I’ve been with my fiancé for 7 years and its obviously a moment every girl has dreamed of forever, for it to be destroyed by a VIRUS is devastating.

View Quoted Comment Same here! I am on a limbo right now I’m waiting till end of May before I have to send invites out!

View Quoted Comment Good idea I was just talking with my fiancé about invites. We're also waiting. We sent save the dates in January so everyone already knows no need for an invitation just yet lol

I’m planning (or was) for August... but I’m not sure what I want to do now.


It seems like spending all this money and dealing with all this when getting staples like bread from the store or just having my kids’ schools cancel for 3 weeks might be a little silly.
It’s one day in our lives. It is not our marriage. This whole situation has me reevaluating everything I thought was important. But I’m doing this calmly and methodically, not as a reaction. I think it comes down to personal choice. I do expect life to go back to semi-normal in the sense that it will be safe again to be in large groups, but it is going to take some time for everything to recover - economy, medical services and other things will need time to go back to “normal” if they ever completely do that.
In some places this hasn’t had that big of an impact yet. Perspectives will vary largely by location. Think about what is important to you. Think quietly and when you are calm. Don’t make any split second decisions. This round could be “over” by September, but this might be a new bug we have to deal with yearly like the flu too. We don’t know yet. All you can do is make the best decisions you can with the information you have. Trust yourself and your intuition. You’ll make the choice that’s best for you and your marriage. Good luck.

Nope...they will have an handle on this by then.

Im not! I think this whole pandemic will be way over by that time

My wedding is in June, but I’m believing everything will be okay. We are now getting travel insurance for our honeymoon tho just in case

Mine's in August. I'm really hoping this is all over by then. Even if it's not and we have to make significant changes, I still want to keep the same date and venue if possible. Our venue has a fairly high minimum spend for food, so if we did have to severely reduce the number of guests, we would just have the most elaborate socially distanced wedding ever.

I am May 21st not cancelling

Try having a wedding April 24th....I think everyone will be fine once summer hits... 🙄

I feel you! My future husband does not understand why I am panicking. My Wedding is I. August 2020. I am praying that this will all be under control sooner rather than later. I agree with the advice up above check contracts or call venders directly to see their advice or plans. If they cancel on you then you should get a full refund. (Worst case scenario of course.)

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Ditto! We did make sure to get wedding insurance--which we should have done anyways but it gives me piece of mind about our honeymoon costs.

View Quoted Comment Yea I think this will have blown over by then

View Quoted Comment September IS far away, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be taking this seriously now. In case you really do want someone to, "help you understand," here you go:

The numbers you gave for H1N1 are from after that pandemic ended, this one is still fairly new. The mortality rate for COVID-19 is more than 10x higher than it was for H1N1. The CDC numbers are at least a day delayed. They report numbers at noon Monday through Friday, but they're the numbers from 4pm the day before, so 1,329 is last Thursday's number. The current estimate is 3,779, which would be 185% increase in just 4 days. The cases that are "under investigation" have been confirmed by state health departments. The CDC is backlogged and hasn't been able to retest all of them, but they are real results, which is why the CDC includes them. All of the numbers will increase as time goes on and testing becomes more available.

Just because nothing was closed in the past doesn't mean nothing is closing now. Venues being closed, large (over 25 people in my state) gatherings being banned, and concern about spreading illness to vulnerable loved ones are real and they are affecting couples' abilities to get married how and when they envisioned.
I don't think it's necessary for most people to make major changes to something that's 6 months away, but you shouldn't judge people for being anxious about something you doubt understand.
Wash your hands and stay away from other people.

View Quoted Comment One possible silver lining for August/September brides: plane ticket prices are going way down!

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Mine is August 1st also and I have no plans on canceling or postponing the wedding at all. People are over thinking what is going on right now. In a couple weeks this will all be blown over.