Do we still get married if we can't have the wedding?

Yes, we got married on our original date of 6/20. We had about 25 guests and did a backyard wedding. We rented tables, chairs, and and an arch. We had a photographer, officiant, and cake. I wore a different, simpler dress. Our big wedding will be 8/7. The big wedding will still be like how it was meant to be, we are still having a ceremony. I think the only difference is that we are having a nonordained family member be the officiant since we will already be married. We are also writing our own vows to make the ceremony a little different.

Forgot to add - we chose to get married on the original date because we like the date and weren’t sure if 8/7/20 would work out and we want to get married this year.

Not me personally (I still have a ways to go), but I talked to a dear friend of mine about going through with her date. Her wedding date was June 2nd of this year, and when she realized she was going to have to cancel, she and her fiance went and got married that week with just family. She said that the wedding was romantic, intimate, and added a lot of hope and happiness to the people in their lives (the ones who attended and the ones who watched on zoom). She is still planning to have a ceremony next year the way they originally planned, but she has loved being married and says she has no regrets, even though her bridesmaids couldn't attend.

I think we all kind of have this fear that our wedding day won't be what we imagined, and Covid really stomped on a lot of wedding plans. But talking to some of my older family members during planning, all they remember is being very in love, very happy, and very hungry (apparently none of them ate at their reception). One family member had a small ceremony and no reception (family drama), and she still looks at her wedding photo fondly because it was such a magical day for her.

People obviously will have different feelings about this and will make the choice that is best for them. I just think, no matter what you choose, focusing on your excitement for the marriage will make everything less stressful and more joyful.

We were 10/10, postponed to 4/10 and we are not planning to get married on 10/10. We want a wedding, the one we planned, and wouldn't have planned one in the first place if we didn't or didn't care. I personally would not be happy with a tiny wedding, that just is not for me.

My fiancé and I are getting married legally this October and our wedding is in March of next year. We are still doing the ceremony for the wedding as someone stated above, but our date has significance. I say that if you want to be legally married then go for it. It’s not changing anything for our wedding, everything will be the exact same we will just be legally married already. That’s what’s most important to us anyways

So our original date was 10-4 and we decided to postpone our 200 person wedding. We are still going to get married on 10-10 because it was the original date we wanted because 10-10-2020 is cool and easy to remember, but our venue was not available. We are now doing a small 30 person ceremony only and getting legally married, for insurance reasons now, it will be with our original officiant who is a family friend our immediate family and the bridesmaids and groomsmen. We are doing the ceremony and have cake and sparkling cider afterward and that is it. We are getting married at our high school theatre where we met 8 years ago our family friend officiant is also the theatre teacher who’s class we met in! I’m not wearing a dress but jeans a nice white blouse. We are not walking down any aisle any first dances etc. we wanted to do the ceremony and be legally married but save a lot of the special wedding experiences for the wedding that we are having next year on 10-10-21 which would then be our one year anniversary. The big wedding will have no changes really.

We are getting married on our original date. We'd gotten kind of attached to it and we've been together for along time. Also, knowing we're getting married now (1 month from today!) makes it easier to handle any changes we have to make to our big event.

For this year, we rented a tent, tables, chairs, linens, etc. Only the two of us, each of our immediate families, and our officiant and photographer will be there. We're getting a floral arch, and having a more low-key version of all the flowers we originally planned/will have next year. My dad and brother and my fiancé's brother will make speeches at both events, and apparently the speeches this year will be shorter. For catering we're getting heavy appetizers in attractively packaged individual containers for dinner, and an ice cream truck for dessert. My cousin and uncle are each going to record some music for us and we can play it that day. We're getting small tables to allow for social distancing. Each table will only have 2 or 3 people. I made masks for everyone, so they'll all be color coordinated and hopefully won't look too depressing in the pictures.

For next year, we'll have most of what we originally planned. (160 people invited, cocktail hour, seated dinner, dances, etc.) I didn't ask the venue to take away the ceremony set up fee when I signed the new contract, but I don't actually know whether or not we'll do anything ceremony-ish. I don't want to do a vow renewal. We weren't going to have a cake in the pre-covid times, but we're going to have one next year to make it feel more weddingy.

I’m getting married on July 17 in my backyard with 35 people date has a lot of meaning to us we are zooming everyone in we pushed the wedding reception to next year no ceremony for next year because majority of our guests will see it via zoom. I’m saving my dress for next year though for the party at my venue.