Coronavirus and Save the Date

Do you have out of town guests attending? If not, you can get away without them. If you still want to send them, I don't see why it would be an issue.

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Yes, we do have a lot. Thank you!

Im Getting Married In October And In The Middle Of Sending My Save The Dates Out. October Is A Long Ways Away I Doubt There Will Be Any Issues With This Virus By Then, At Least Not As Bad As It Is Now.

I think it's fine to send them out now. The sooner the better. I'm getting married in October and I just mailed out my Save the Dates today! We only planned to invite about 40 people total with a few people from out of town, so I'm hoping this virus thing will get better by the fall.

Wait until June or Early July. Since no airline is even taking new reservations, and some vendors or individual businesses may drop out of the wedding business over this lack of business for months, you have no idea. You may have to change many things, including venue and size of the wedding. It is better to give people advance notice of 4 months, and know you can honor the STD by inviting who you have sent them to, than to give info that may be wrong, or have to retract invitations you sent earlier. Wait. When you know for sure, you can use STD, or do it the old fashioned way and call or write ( email) the people you want to know before invitations arrive at 8 weeks. I remember during the recession of 2008, small Inns, & party and wedding venues were closing every time you turned around. With not more than a few weeks notice. And those who scrambled to find a replacement at 6 months from their wedding, got everything set, then lost a photographer, or caterer. Making and remaking plans is far harder, after STD are out. Businesses that lost many months of business, may raise rates 10-15% to make up their losses. You may find you have to cut guests to do it. Best not to have issued advance notice STD, than to say, gee, sorry, but we don't want you after all .

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Thank you for your input! I am getting mixed opinion.

I'm getting married in November and will be sending them out this week. I want to make sure that everyone knows our date earlier rather than later. Especially with so many people rescheduling their spring weddings to the fall.

I was thinking of making this exact thread! Glad to hear I'm not alone. I was worried about serving insensitive to the situation by doing so. We always were thinking of going closer to 6 months instead of 9 for STDs already.

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Yes. I spoke to one of my BMs, and she says it's a bad time to send right now.

If your wedding is before October first, then you should be considering postponement. If not, you may be in the clear to carry on.

Think about what you're going to do, and if you decide to keep your wedding as planned send out the save the dates.

If postponing, definitely let you guests know to look out for a future save the date a little farther out then expected. They know whats going on in the world!

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Thank you for your input! After some considerations, we sent out our STD last week.