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How to tell family that the reception is postponed?

Rachel, on August 11, 2020 at 1:56 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 4

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My fiance and I originally had our wedding scheduled 05/08/2021 - with everything going on we decided to push up the wedding date to 02/20/2021 and reduce the guest list to 30 people (150 guests originally). We are paying for the entire wedding ourselves and planning on buying a house soon, so this move will help us with budgeting. We do plan on having a large reception probably late in 2021 or 2022 if things start going back to normal.

We never sent out save the dates, but my fiance's extended family has already noted the date for our wedding. Would it be best to send letters to our extended family letting them know of our plans or would a simple text or call do?
Thanks!

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Latest activity by Lynnie, on August 12, 2020 at 3:58 PM

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Margaret · on August 11, 2020 at 1:59 PM
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Since you don't have STDs sent out, I'd just let them know as you speak to them.
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Molly · on August 11, 2020 at 2:00 PM
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Our wedding was October 3rd, 2020. We decided to postpone our reception until next year. We are still having a ceremony this year with a reduced amount of people. We sent out a change the date to everyone on our guest list for next years date. We are doing a fb event for people invited to just the ceremony (tacky i know) but we also just bought a house and don't have it in the budget and I LOVED our invites so i didn't want to buy all new invites for next year.
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Lisa · on August 11, 2020 at 2:05 PM
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I think a phone call/text would be fine since you never sent out anything previously. You could also send out a Save The Date card with your new date on it (or send out postponement announcements), to the people invited to your February date, and send out Save The Dates to everyone invited to your larger reception for whenever you choose a date for that event.
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Lynnie · on August 12, 2020 at 3:58 PM
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Hi Rachel! If the extended family members aren't too many people to call I'd go that route!! All your reasoning makes total sense and I'm sure they'll understand. Especially since you don't have a set date for the later celebration, I think a phone call will work well!
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