Guest List for covid wedding

We postponed our April wedding to September 5 of this year. Originally we invited just over 100 people in April. This time we invited 97 people, but our state changed guidelines the first week of August, so we cut our guest list to 50 people. I definitely didn’t want to elope, we had so much money invested in the wedding and I just really want to see my dream come to life. That’s why we postponed everything for September instead of doing something small or eloping back in April

Sidenote, there’s so many ways to have a wedding this year between a mini ceremony, elopement, ceremony now reception later, this group will definitely help you decide what’s best for you. Good luck to you both! ❤️

We originally were planning on 120 guests for our July 2020 wedding, and then would have been forced to cut our guest list to 75 people. Initially, we were fine with this plan, but ultimately, we ended up postponing to July 2022. Our reason for postponing was the safety of our guests, and also that our wedding wasn't shaping up to be the wedding we wanted due to COVID restrictions.


Each couple is different - since you have a smaller guest list already, you may still be able to host your wedding depending on restrictions in your state. If restrictions are preventing your wedding, and keeping your original date is more important to you, eloping may be your best option! Otherwise, if keeping your whole guest list is more important, postponing would be better. Talk with your fiance about what is most important to both of you and discuss the options with the restrictions in place. It's not an easy decision, but you'll be able to determine what is best for you.

Our wedding is scheduled for 10/10 of this year, we invited about 59 people and anticipate a final count of 50, we are not changing our headcount.

What are current restrictions in your state? Ours is less than 25 people for a reception, so if yours is similar you could cut your guest list down. But if you're looking to have everyone there to celebrate with you, you could do what we're doing, which is have a minimony (only 15 people total) while we legally get married in a church, and then have our big ceremony and reception next year with everyone present. For our minimony we will still be all dressed up and use the bouquets that we made, get hair professionally done but do our own makeup, and then go to FILs house for a catered dinner. We decided to still get married this year because, honestly, it's just been such a crappy year that we decided the least we could do is actually get married lol we've been together over 6.5 years and just knew it was time. But postponing the big wedding still so we can still celebrate with all 120~ of our friends and family who are out of state and weren't comfortable travelling here, which is understandable.

We sent save the dates to 160 people before we were aware of covid. When it became clear that we needed to change our plans, we decided to only invite our immediate families so we could reduce the risk as much as possible. We'll have a reception with the rest of our guests next year, or whenever it's safe to do so. We pretty much decided who we felt needed to be there (as opposed to who *should* be there) and figured out how to do that safely. The world is in a different place now than it was when I had to think about this (everyone owns masks and at least knows what social distancing is) so you probably have more options about how to do this safely.

We originally have 93 guest. However it looks like we will be closer to 50-60 this go round. What's great is it saving us over $4000 between food and other having the in the lower guest count so that's a pro!

We went from 150 guest for our wedding originally planned for July 25th 2020 (I was bummed and overwhelmed with emotion) but is now going to be November 7th 2020 with 30 guests. We decided on a micro wedding with just immediate family and our bridal party since the planning was already done and their dresses and suits had already been purchased. We’re having an intimate church ceremony in the church we grew up in and met and private dinner (socially distanced of course) at a restaurant. We’ll live stream for the guests that can’t attend in the physical. It’s not the way we originally planned but we have to roll with the punches. We decided not to wait and figured this is going to be our new norm for a while. With Covid having so many uncertainties I don’t want to plan for 2021 to have those dreams crushed if we’re still dealing with this mess. We want to get on with life. I’m completely over the mental stress as well as the financial stress. So onward we’re moving.