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Beginner September 2020

How are you changing, rather than postponing, your wedding?

Christina, on April 19, 2020 at 3:36 PM Posted in Planning 1 6

I'm getting married at the beginning of September, and am trying to come up with another plan if it's still unsafe to have so many people together at that time. I'm undecided if I want to have a super small ceremony with family and still have a huge party next year, or just do what I can this year and that's it. Throwing two parties is going to make it more expensive and I don't really want to still be in the wedding planning stage of my life while we're starting our marriage together.

So my question is, if you've decided to keep your wedding date this year, but change it to fit the circumstances, how are you doing it? What are you doing to go from having over 100 people, to a very small wedding? Keeping your venue, or losing the deposit and having it in a park somewhere? Still inviting everyone and planning it the same, while expecting only half to show up? What are you plans for a different wedding, rather than a postponed wedding?

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Latest activity by Maddy, on April 23, 2020 at 4:45 PM
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    Just Said Yes August 2020
    Robin ·
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    Hello!


    We are getting married August 29 and have decided to cut our guest list from 110 to 50 people to stay in line with new recommendations from the government. Our families have discussed doing another celebration later on but I agree, it seems like an unnecessary cost and I really just want to have one wedding day. We are keeping the venue and all other details the same.Hope this helps!
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  • Maya
    Savvy September 2020
    Maya ·
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    My date is 9/5 and tho we aren’t making any decisions yet, this is what we may do if we have to. Had you already sent Dave the dates though? How will you go about telling people they’re no longer invited?? 😬😬
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    Dedicated July 2020
    Shannon ·
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    We're July 11th. If guidelines are lifted by then, we are not expecting as many guests to likely show up. If there's limitations to how many people, we are keeping it to immediate family only. We're hoping our venue will still allow us to have the ceremony if we have to change plans. If we're limited on guests we will have the ceremony elsewhere and plan a bigger reception at our venue so we're not out money.
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    Beginner September 2020
    Christina ·
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    We actually hadn't sent out our save-the-dates before all this started, so we haven't formally invited anyone yet. We'll just have to communicate with people about the change of plans if we do need to change.

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  • Sylvie
    Dedicated September 2020
    Sylvie ·
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    My thoughts were similar, our wedding is in September also, and I was so upset because we had no choices the only choice they gave us was to reschedule but for now it’s still too early.. and they still took a huge deposit. And if we made any other choices we would lose thousands... so I’m stuck in limbo
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    Dedicated December 2020
    Maddy ·
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    I’m getting married in December and it just feels so early to make these decisions. I am hopeful that we find a way to still have a good number of people, because my state is on extreme lockdown, we can’t even have 50 people any more. At this point, if there’s no other choice, we’ll have a private ceremony and do a reception once things are lifted.
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