Hawaii Wedding - To Postpone or not to postpone

How many guests did you plan on inviting?

My original date was July 2020, now is August 2022, because it would be our 25th elopement anniversary. If not, I would do 2021. The wait is killing my excitement and makes me feel like forever and who knows what happened before that. In your case, I would wait and see. Which one is your venue? My venue in Oahu is giving me 30 days cancellation and the deposit isn’t much ($150 I think). However, we are doing it intimately, so everything is booked through that one venue.

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The save the dates we sent out were to 130 people, my fiancés family lives on Oahu

View Quoted Comment What are the Hawaii mandates now regarding weddings? In my residential state, no dancing is permitted and there can be no more than 10 guests for indoor weddings, and no more than 25 for outdoor weddings.

In addition to looking at the gathering restrictions at the state and county level, HI has very strict quarantine requirements for any out-of-state visitors and in general has taken a very cautious approach to reopening based on my knowledge. Unless a person tests negative within 72 hours, they must quarantine for 10 days, and the person is required to upload the test and present it in hard copy upon arrival. Do all the guests live in HI?

I think you should postpone you can say next year we are getting married

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Yes I've been tracking this portion of the Hawaii regulations very closely. Honolulu is getting a new Mayor so I am more concerned right now as gatherings of only 5-10 people are allowed even with negative covid tests.

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It's pretty strict, see the comments below yours. You have to get a negative covid test 72 hours before and there can currently be no gatherings larger than 10 people

View Quoted Comment Oh my! I recommend you postpone another year or cancel and just elope with parents and/or siblings.

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It sounds like you either need to downsize or postpone. In my county in MD, gatherings over 50 haven't been permitted since March. I strongly doubt the limit will increase to over 100 by May in places which have been slow and cautious about reopening, such as HI. The limit may increase to 50 by May. If possible, I would downsize to 25-50.

Hi Kath! As regulations change on a dime, it maybe too early to call. A family member is waiting till February to make a decision to postpone or not for their May wedding. Would the resort be able to do a soft hold for the November date? 130 guests may be tough, if you have a B list of 20, this could be possible by May. If you and your fiancé can live with 20 and Hawaii opens up just a little more by May- it is doable. I’m so sorry you are going through this. I thought PA restrictions were hard and my heart goes out to HI and CA brides ❤️

With Kauai’s ever changing travel rules we relocated our March wedding. It was sad but Montana in Glacier will be much easier to travel to. We’ll have to go to Hawaii for an anniversary. We could have lost thousands in we tested positive prior to travel and spent our whole wedding in quarantine.