How To Know When to Cancel Wedding Due to Coronavirus?

It seems like most vendors are being highly sympathetic of the situation so hopefully yours will be too!

I would contact your vendors about your concern and see if they can pencil you in for a later date, just in case. So you'd keep your July 19th date but if the virus situation hasn't improved by then (or if youre just too nervous) you can opt to use your later date and your vendors are already prepared for you to have that backup date.

I've seen a lot of brides do that on here and it seems like it's working out for many of them. That seems like a good way to play it safe and have a backup option but also to keep your original date if it blows over sooner!

Mine is July4th and I'm keeping it as is, we will re-evaluate in May and we might just decide on a private ceremony that day with a reception in the fall if COVID is still going on by July.

I work in Health care, and honestly I'm feeling okay about everything in terms of wedding related planning. I'm excited to get married even if we have to go to plan B Stay positive! re-evaluate at the end of May and maybe decide on a plan B that you can make peace with. Just keep in mind your relationship with fiance and why you are getting married! Celebrations can always happen at a later time if you decide to have a private wedding first.

I'm so sorry to hear what you're going through. We have a community hub of all our COVID-19 information, including cancellation guides, monthly planning posts, and advice on how to get additional support. I hope it helps you navigate this difficult time!

My wedding is July 2nd and right now we are moving forward as is. We were just about to order the invitations but have decided to wait until mid-April to make a decision. We are hoping things will start to die down and have some sort of normalcy around then, if not the end of April so that we can make an informed decision. All of our vendors have been super helpful and accommodating. I was most worried about the venue based on their contract language, but they too are allowing us to switch with no penalty.


I would say start reaching out now to your vendors so that you know what your options are. This will help you make a better decision for y’all.

We are May 16th 2020 and we are waiting until closer to the end of April. Our vendor is not issue because it is a family friend. Our other vendors have also expressed they are not making any decisions until mid/end of April. With the advances of new medications that are being used to help combat this, I am hopeful this will be lessened and the bans will be lifted in time for the wedding. Personally I feel it is WAY too early to make a decision. We are 8 weeks away, so much could change in 8 weeks! I am also in Maryland and my county/surrounding counties have not been hit too hard. Personally for a July wedding I would wait until at least June before you make a decision.

I just postponed my May 30th wedding to July 18th, hoping that things will be better by then. I have a guest list of 250 and with the recommendations and large group gathering bans going into mid-May, we made the tough decision yesterday to postpone. It's not too much further out thank god, and hopefully its enough time for this to pass. I am very hopeful at this point.

I see some May brides have not postponed or canceled and I'm hoping I made the right choice. I just felt like I wanted to make the decision before I sent my invitations out, mainly because I felt like RSVPing would be difficult for my guests not knowing what is going on and whether or not they will want to come depending on what's going on.

I just ordered free change the date cards so as soon as those come in I will be sending those out, and then will send my new invitations out - which shutterfly is kindly sending free of charge.

Good luck to you and I hope everything goes as planned!

I am scheduled for July 18th myself. I'm just in "wait and see" mode until at least early June. Frankly, unless our venue itself remains closed or cancels our event, we are planning to go ahead, with the understanding that some of our guests may choose not to attend and we are absolutely ok with whatever they may decide. If our venue has to cancel, then we will look at postponing far enough out to a date that all our current vendors can honor, and just get married privately (if we can get a marriage license, or as soon as we can do so).

We are postponing our April 4th wedding to July 18th. I'm praying (and hopeful) things would be better by then.

We decided to postpone our June 5th wedding. We just didn't want to miss out on getting a good date from our venue the longer we waited. We are getting married 8/28 now. All of our vendors and venue were super helpful and understanding. We decided that we will still get MARRIED on June 5th at the courthouse. We will have the wedding and reception in August just as we planned.