Heartbroken...

The CDC and White House have asked that no events occur with ten or more people. So if you can cut your guest list down to that number, I think it would be okay to go ahead with your wedding. Otherwise, I would postpone entirely.

Another option would be to get married on your original date since it has sentimental value to you, then host a vow renewal later on (which you could structure just like a wedding reception) so you can celebrate with all your friends and family. Best of luck!

I would get married on your original date but postpone the wedding until this is over.

Maybe you can do something for your current date now and then have another celebration later. Like still do something to make that date now meaningful and special

Idk if this will help you or not. At this moment, we are "eloping". On our wedding date. Then we postponed our actual ceremony and reception to a completely different date.


Our focuses are getting married. Celebrating with friends later. Idk if that's something you're ok with or not. We have an ordained officiant friend who is super chill and doing 2 weddings for us.

View Quoted Comment I’m not sure if I’m ok with that yet or not. I’ve been planning for so long that it’s now hard to come to terms with all of this. Guests have purchased plane tickets and hotels, and even more than losing my money I’d hate them to have spent $ down the drain. There are just so many factors to it all

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While I understand missing out on money is rough, the health and safety of your friends and family is definitely more valuable than money here. I'd strongly urge to you postpone. Sentimental wedding dates are lovely, but any date you get married will be sentimental. Why not expand your number of sentimental dates?

I am struggling with this too but I am just going to postpone the wedding for now. I may decide that I am ready to get married already and elope or do the courthouse but I am not mentally there yet. I think it's a lot to handle so many big decisions at once.

I decided early on that if my VIP guests could not make it, it would not be worth it to me. I have already had 3 bridesmaids drop and didn't want to be selfish and put others at risk. Also, most guests will be able to refund their tickets and hotels given the changes a lot of companies are making.

I guess you guys are right and I should postpone...we already postponed once so I'm sure we'll be fine but I'm probably going to have to change some vendors and go through a lot more planning...FH thinks we should just cancel a reception all together so I don't have to go through it

View Quoted Comment Most of our guests are actually asking us to keep the date, I’m more worried than they are about the virus, it seems. Our guest list is primarily 20-40 with a few over and under that

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We decided to postpone (April 11th) once we saw that most airlines, hotels, etc. were jumping on the bandwagon and allowing free cancel/reschedules. My thinking was its only fair to my guests that they get as much of a refund as they can during this time. If you’re outside of the 30 day time period at this point, you might give it another week or so to make the call.

That being said, if I wanted a specific date, then I’d go forward with just a small intimate ceremony and do the reception later. No one is going to blink at it, we’re all in the same boat and 2020 there will be tons of other brides doing that.