How far out to postpone?

I am April 11th and the venue offered me July 4 or 11 and I am wondering as well if this is too soon.

If people follow the precautions currently in place by the CDC, President Trump said yesterday that they are anticipating to have this under control by July or August. That doesn't necessarily mean we'd still be under the same restrictions, but it also doesn't guarantee that will happen in general. It's all going to depend on how these next 8 weeks go, I'm sure they'll have better updates within a couple of weeks that will hopefully give people a more definite time frame.

So sorry to hear! Our wedding is scheduled for October 10th and our contract requires 180 days notice prior to the event date to reschedule, which gives us until April 13th. I contacted our venue to inquire and was told that the events scheduled within the next 8 weeks are rescheduling for July and August. I personally think (I'm no doctor or scientist!) that May/June is too soon, but August and later should be good. Good luck!!

So my personal opinion is that this will be settled down by next month. Businesses can’t continue to close down their events for weeks at a time. The guidelines right now are only for 15 days. So I think starting June things will be good. As of now our April 18 wedding is still even on because it’s past the 15 day mark of these guidelines. Each states governor, however, are making up their own rules too that businesses will need to follow.

I would personally start at least talking to your vendors about how amenable they are to rescheduling. It doesn't hurt to start communicating with them now, even if you don't end up rescheduling, and if you find out that you really do need to change the date,you'll have an advantage over other brides who are using your vendors but didn't reach out right away. There are so many predictions out there about when this will peak, but it's impossible to know for sure and no one seems to know when it could actually be over.

View Quoted Comment Not you freak you out, but while the 10 person limit is currently only for 15 days, the CDC issued guidelines on Sunday to say that gatherings of 50 or more people should be avoided for 8 weeks (until May 10th). So you may want to keep that in mind if you're expecting >50 guests.

View Quoted Comment The CDC used that as a guideline.. if you watch the news every morning they do a live and you’ll hear them say that it’s only a recommendation, so therefore it’s entirely up to each state. Regardless of that, our wedding is still gonna go on unless something else changes.. per the venue. And if our venue told us in the future that we can only have 50 then we’re only having 50!

View Quoted Comment I'm definitely aware of the fact that these are only recommendations, and in the unlikely worst case scenario that we're limited to 10 person gatherings in August, I will absolutely be ignoring them. I replied directly to you about the guidelines lasting 8 weeks because you mentioned the 15 day restrictions and I didn't want you to get stuck without relevant information that you may need, but it seems like you're on top of it! Good luck!