Getting married at courthouse and having reception once covid 19 is over?

I think that's a great idea! some of my friends did that last year and it was still really nice. you can even wear your wedding dress at your courthouse ceremony aha. i don't see why not! i'd want to wear mine multiple times if i had the chance aha

I’m getting married in October so if we have to postpone, we will go to the courthouse and have the reception next year

Many folks here are doing a variation of that. Wear your dress as many times as you can. Some brides don't even wear it all of one day (changing into something else for the reception) without Covid being a factor, so rock your dress as much as you can.

Let your guests know when you invite them that you're having a renewal of vows and you're already married so they won't assume that you're getting legally married again on the postponed date.

A friend of mine is getting married this June with just his and his fiancee's immediate family. Then in October, they are supposed to be having a ceremony and reception with everything.

Definitely not unheard of. Even before the virus people would do that. We're hoping that everything settles down just enough in February so we won't have to cancel/postpone. If we do end up having to cancel, we'll probably do the same thing.

Many couples are deciding to do just that. It was our original Plan B too. But, the more I follow this pandemic the more I rethink our Plan B. I’m now leaning towards just doing everything on the same day in 2021, if we have to postpone.

I wanted to do that but my fiancé didn’t like the idea of the court house lol

That's what we're doing. We'll still have the same official date and then we'll do the ceremony and reception at a later date. A lot of my FH's family is coming from Connecticut/New York so they're uncomfortable flying down to the wedding. Our venue and caterer have both said they dont have a problem so it's not a big deal.

Our original date was 6/13/2020. We had to postpone but decided we didn’t want to wait. So we are having a small ceremony with immediate family only and will have our photographer be there as well. We will have about 15 people coming which is allowed right now for outside events in CT. We will still have a vow renewal and ceremony with our reception once we can have it. I decided to also save my wedding dress for then.

We are getting married in the back yard of a VRBO! Something with a nice yard and some privacy. Lots of places say "no events allowed" but sometimes they make an exception if you email the host directly and explaining your situation.