Downsizing Wedding Due to Coronavirus

Due to venue restrictions in regards to the coronavirus outbreak, we have made the difficult decision to celebrate on April 4th with family only. Thank you so much for your support and we hope to celebrate with everyone else soon

I'm so sorry you have to go through this, but I would strongly urge you to consider postponing. Current guidelines are no events with more than 10 people for the next 8 weeks. Our only hope of beating this virus is if we listen to the CDC's recommendations. I'm so sorry

The most responsible choice would be to postpone as the CDC is recommending not to have any gatherings over ten people in the next eight weeks. If you can't be convinced to do that, I would start calling people directly and letting them know that, unfortunately, you will need to cut your guest list to family only.

I would definitely just postpone. Public health and safety is paramount over anyone's wedding. In fact, I'm a professional in the wedding industry, and I've just advised all my brides and grooms to cancel or postpone their March and April weddings, and with everything that's just now come into effect, May weddings as well. We're about 10-14 days behind Italy when it comes to the virus and their initial casual feelings about the virus have now lead to a country-wide lockdown and hundreds of deaths. Contact between people (even those feeling totally fine) can spread the virus on to people who are at risk (immunocompromised in some way) super quickly, and in order to give medical professionals an opportunity to get a handle on things, staying home and not going to any non-essential appointments or outings is pertinent. They're closing down restaurants, bars, and theaters, and people get much closer (hugging, celebrating, sitting in aisles/pews) to each other at weddings than they do at those places.

I'm very sorry about how things have turned out for your wedding--it's definitely been frustrating for brides and grooms getting married anytime soon. Again, I'd strongly suggest postponing.

I agree with Hanna. I would ask your venue about your options for postponing to a later date. That way you can still celebrate with everyone on your original guest list.

I agree with PP. The responsible thing to do would be to postpone.