covid Cancelation for Weddings

We booked the 23rd of July 2020, and I am not worried yet. We will decide 6 weeks before to postpone if needed.

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Have you talked with your vendors if there would be cancellation fees and such if needing to postpone or are you planning to do that in the 6 week time frame as well?

I just had to postpone my May wedding to September. I don't think you should be worrying about postponing at this time. It's too soon to decide and vendors are more focused at rescheduling weddings for March/April/May brides. At this point in time, we should focus more on doing our part in maintaining social distancing in order to beat this virus as soon as possible with minimal casualties.

I do not think you would need to. I wouldn’t stress myself out over it right now. I know it can be tough waiti my in limbo not knowing what to do.
My wedding was originally May 17th and after multiple people saying they don’t feel comfortable I went ahead and postponed. There were really slim
Pickings when it came to dates that were available. September is still pretty far out and it would stink if you cancelled/postponed and had to wait until next year if you are anything like me and want to get married like right now lol. But if you do move it too early you do risk the chance of everything coming back to normal and canceling for prematurely. A lot of brides that had to cancel are moving their dates to August and farther so I wouldn’t worry about it now until maybe July or August. I hope this helps!

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Thank you so much for you answer! We weren't planning on postponing at this time, but just thinking on a timeline of when we should be more concerned with what choice we make. I'm so sorry you had to postpone your wedding until next year!!!

View Quoted Comment I got a new date in November 2020
I would’ve lost it if I had to wait until 2021.
I was saying that if you are anything like me and want to get married like now I wouldn’t postpone it until August. You can reassess the situation as it gets closer but I would still plan and do everything.
Also, a little bit of advice, if you do have to cancel because it gets worse, get your marriage license just in case you want the option of getting married with immediate family. Courts can’t be closed all the way through September right? LolWhen my wedding date was about 50 days out, that’s when this whole thing started getting crazy, and by then courthouses we’re closed so I didn’t even have the option of getting a marriage license and getting married with just family around. I still wouldn’t have opted to go that route but at least you would have an option

View Quoted Comment We would just lost the deposit, which is not much. However, I do believe strongly that it would be fine by July.

My fiancé and I are getting married in October and plan on sending a note out with our formal invitations about how if they are unable to come due to fear of risking their health, then we respect their decision not to come. At this point, we have spent so much money (to us) on this wedding that we are getting married on our set wedding date as long as our vendors are still willing to come out on that day, regardless of how many guests attend it.

I'm so sorry you're dealing with this, Christine, and I know the uncertainty of everything is crazy stressful!! I think it's smart to hold steady on your date but to keep a plan b in the back of your mind just in case.

You are definitely not alone right now! We've started gathering initial tips and resources from WeddingWire here: COVID-19 Wedding Support Central, and you can connect with other couples concerned about their September wedding dates in this discussion: September - Cancel Wedding?

Me and my fiance are getting married September 5, 2020 and live in CT. We were getting a bit nervous and figured that we would reach out to our venue and vendors to see what their policies were with regard to postponing and actually creating a Plan B. With that being said, we created a Plan B and it was super easy and actually relieving. The only vendor who cannot be available on our Plan B date is my hair and makeup gal.

So we're still hoping to have things go as planned for our 9//5/2020 wedding but if by the end of June things do not appear to be better or we are given more information, we will then have our wedding on our Plan B date of May 30, 2021. I'm super grateful my venue and vendors were so accommodating and understanding and I feel so much better having a Plan B and still being able to plan my big day! I feel for all of the brides going through this and know we can all get through this!

I know you are stressing, but if my wedding was in September I wouldn't be thinking about postponing. I am June 7th and I am thinking about postponing but I haven't yet. I have my personal reasons as to why. I'm going to give it two more weeks. Now if in July we are still having shutdowns and shelter-at-home lockdowns, then I would start thinking about postponing my September wedding.