covid Fatigue......

Well here it goes, I got married February 14, 2021 in California, legit two weeks after we just got out of the shut down. I invited 150 people, and only 60 came. It was still the most beautiful and magical day of my life. I do not regret it one bit, and I'm so glad I didn't have this pandemic ruin my chances in planning the wedding of my dreams. Don't get me wrong, it sucked planning during COVID, my own parents didn't come to the wedding, and in total only 9 of my family members came. Even the days leading up to my wedding, my fiancee and I had so many "friends" flake on us for some good reasons, and some bad reasons. Like, we literally had one guy tell us he couldn't come because he had a test he had to study for, but our wedding was on a three day weekend, like he could make it for a few hours, but whatever. Honestly, I thought my wedding was going to suck, since so little people were coming, but there was so much love ruminating in the room, during the vows, that it was magical and complete. I loved my wedding, and I wouldn't change it for the world, even if I had the chance to have more people come.

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Congratulations. That's inspiring. I hope my heart returns to the planning of it all

Getting married July 9,2021. Still don’t have a venue yet but actively searching for one. We will have a ceremony / reception and whoever comes will but if they don’t, we won’t be offended. We’re having a wedding either way.

I am so over COVID. I am not trying to down play it by any means, but I wish we can function without being fearful of the virus spreading. Our first wedding date was 10/22/20, which would’ve been 5 month engagement but we postponed in hopes of everything getting better. And it was positive in giving us more time to plan and pay for the wedding. Our new date is 4/22/2021 (57 days!!) and we’re not postponing no matter what. We have a maximum of 50 guests and at this point if people feel comfortable they will come. Our high risk guests have been vaccinated and our guests that have been able to get the vaccine have. We will have masks and hand sanitizer available, and there will be a dance floor. Some of my family has been giving me a hard about still having my wedding. We have all put our lives on hold for a year at this point and we need to be able to function in this new world.

I'm getting married in 60 days! We are pushing forward reagrdless. Guest have been given the option to decline their initial invites or are free to wear mask I'd theybwousl like but the wedding will continue.

View Quoted Comment This is my thought too my FH and I talked and prayed in it and said screw it wr are not postponing anything if worst comes to worst we will have it right in our backyard where there is more open air anyways

5/22/21 Here. I'm planning as if normalcy is a thing. Taking precautions, though. Im expecting my 238 list to be cut to about 100.

We are getting married June 5th
We are Enloping with 20 Guest and I made mask with our Wedding Date and Hand sanitizer.

View Quoted Comment I am with you on this! I had a lackluster moment but my date 4/11/2021 started sinking in right after New Years and I got excited! We are only having 50 people in PA (I’m from NY thought) but they did announce NY can start having large wedding starting March 15. Good luck xo

We are cautiously moving ahead with 5/22/21 which is our postponed date from last summer. We will work with the city restrictions and we even changed our entertainment to account for the fact that we likely will not have a dance floor and people will have to remain seated. It's not what we planned but we are ready to move on and stop throwing money at this thing. We've been vaccinated along with parents and more elderly guests... we also know a lot of healthcare and essential workers so we think more will be vaccinated by May than we had anticipated when this all began.

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I feel like I'm on the same boat! Currently scheduled for a 5/1/2021 wedding (originally 120 guests but now cutting back to 50), but we are considering changing our venue to a winery with a larger outside space. It's so frustrating though because currently the maximum indoor capacity around us is 10 people and we are just over two months away!! The uncertainty stinks. We postponed from a Memorial Day 2020 weekend wedding and we don't want to keep pushing it out. We are thinking of providing masks and hand sanitizers too. Our high risk family members will all be vaccinated by then so I am hoping for the best (fingers crossed).

We have 171 days till we say I do. We had to cut the guests list down in half and end up with having a backyard wedding do to our venue not wanting to have events this year as well. It is a roller coaster of emotions for me. We are trying to plan a wedding and buy a house all during a pandemic. I'm stressed beyond belief and try hard to remember that it's all going to work out in the end and that I'm stressed over nothing. We will have been engaged for 2 years when the wedding is here. I told my fiance I don't care what the future with the pandemic looks like we will be having our wedding on August 14 2021 no matter what, even if that means we have to go down town just the two of us and get married at justice of the peace. I can't deal with another year of planning a wedding, I will lose it.

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This is exactly what we are are doing. We're blessed to be in an area where covid is not a bother, and everyone has agreed to be tested besides for the ones that's been vaccinated. And anyone who's not comfortable with us not wearing masks can be facetimed throughout the wedding. So our wedding will be live for those who couldn't make it! If something comes up, we're either having a micro or elopement. It's been a very tiring process to find vendors willing to do a full sized wedding, and also fighting for availability from the brides that rescheduled. I had to take a break from planning for about 2 months, I just got so overwhelmed.. You've got this! We've all got this!!

Definitely stressing out because we've been planning on getting married for a while, so we can save up since we are paying for everything ourselves. We've been engaged for like 2 years now. Because everyone is postponing up to 2022 (which is the year we are getting married), all the vendors are booking up fast. We are having a small, intimate wedding with only up to 20 people invited, but I've been contacting makeup artists left and right, and most are already booked for my date. And our wedding date date is also low-peak wedding season. December 10, 2022

View Quoted Comment 100%. The show must go on and we have to live our lives. If people don’t want to go that’s their personal decision.

I definitely feel it. We postponed from September 2020 to May 2021 and I'm just so tired of being constantly stressed out. We decided to move forward in whatever capacity is possible in May.

We were married in our backyard on our original wedding date 8/1/2020, and planned to hold the reception this July--but our venue pretty much informed us we would have to be outside with a tent that we would have to rent on top of the building price (yikes). So we are going to hold the reception at our house again and just rent our own tent. I am tired of the back and forth/will this work will that work game. And definitely agreeing with others, we'll do the best we can but at this point we need to have our celebration and continue to live our life.

Just have to say after planning and re-planning, no matter what we do or don't do someone isn't going to agree with it or think it's the right thing to do. So at this point we're going to move along hoping people will want to celebrate with us but understanding if they don't.

4-3-21 here.
Yes. So over the stress of planning a covid wedding. We are still trying to figure out the guest list! We think 35-50.
It’s like the entire wedding planning process is Covid related issues

I am planning as if Covid isn’t a thing. If September comes around and restrictions are still in place, I will think about it then!


It is too exhausting worrying about it right now. I still have a long time until my wedding.

Wedding in 06/2021


I got to the point where I stopped watching the news for updates. It wasn’t doing me any good. One day I would be super optimistic and the other not so much. Right now, a social distanced, mask wearing, tested prior event with 150 guests sounds like gold compared to the 50 guests we were previously limited to. It is annoying to plan. Because I am not one to leave things for last minute. So I like everyone to know what they’re doing, who’s coming. Which parents need to buy attire for their children... I have 2 final guests lists. A 50 guest and a 150 since it’s as hopeful as I’m getting. Truly, make the best of a bad situation. It’s hard. It makes this more stressful than it already is. But you’re not alone, and don’t let it consume you!