Our wedding is planned for Nov 12 2020 in Jamaica. I love planning travel, managing projects and taking on a challenge. I was so excited to take on the task of planning my own destination wedding with minimal help. I was even reluctant to hire a day of planner, but did so knowing that on my wedding day (and the week leading up) I need to just be bride.
Going into February I had finalized almost everything, we were just waiting for great flight deals and negotiating with two caterers to determine our final pic. Then everything started to go off the rails in Seattle with COVID-19.
I completely recognize that we are very lucky. I work in recruiting for major tech company, fully able to WFH (going on 2 months now) and don't have any fear of losing my job. My FH is classified as an essential worker who is now getting hazard pay in addition to regular income. I don't take any of this for granted and recognize our privilege daily.
That being said I'm still starting to drown in wedding anxiety. April marks 7 years from the first time we visited Jamaica, our first trip as a couple, and when we first started dreaming of this wedding. It took a really long time for us to get to the right place in our lives, careers, relationship, finances to make this all happen and now I'm really upset it might all fall apart.
Curious about what other destination brides are thinking about dates this fall:
1. When are you sending out your invitations? (we had planned on June)
2. When are you making your final decisions, how late is too late to cancel for your guests?
