July 10, 2021 -- covid opinions?

I feel you girl!! Our wedding is 4/3/21 & I’m getting a lil nervous. I’m hoping for the best though!

I would suggest talking to your vendors about your contracts and what options are available to you in the event you would need to reschedule. You could even ask about the possibility of putting a soft hold on a date in 2022, just in case.

I agree with Chrysta - ask your vendors about their postponement policies. If you are able to move your date to a new date that you'd be more comfortable with, go for it! Or maybe see if you're at least able to come up with a backup plan for 2022 with all vendors. Otherwise, if you can't move your date, maybe start thinking of a plan now for either minimizing your guest list, precautions, etc.

I don't know if this will be reassuring, but we planned our wedding for 08/08/2020, so we had to plan a miniwedding and postpone our reception (to 07/24/2021). Ideally you'd avoid having to go through it, but it's not all terrible. I was super nervous about risking people's health when we only had 15 people wearing masks outside, so I definitely get being worried about having a wedding next summer.
At this point, you can look at your contracts, but you're unlikely to be able to move anything, so it might be better to think about what you can control, which is having a backup plan. We came up with lists of what we would do in a variety of different scenarios (this was in March, so your list will probably be different). If we could only invite 100 people we'd cut the guest list, and have a casual party in the future to invite everyone else who'd gotten a save the date, if we could only invite 25 people we'd have a small ceremony somewhere other than the venue and postpone the reception, if our London-based officiant wasn't allowed into the US we'd ask my brother to get a temporary permit to perform the ceremony, etc. Knowing that we had plans we could be happy with regardless of what happened made it easier to make changes when we had to (we ultimately had a miniwedding, 15 people in my parents' backyard). Getting married this year is making it easier to deal with not knowing what will happen next year, because we'll be pushing off a party, not the beginning of our marriage, if we have to.

I think that it’ll be MUCH better by the time of your wedding but Covid will definitely still be a thing unfortunately.

I think you will be just fine a vaccine hopefully will come out early 2021. I just cant imagine this going on that long. Hopefully not.

Hi! You're my wedding date twin! I'm also getting married July 10, 2021. I agree with the ladies above about checking to see how flexible your vendors are about re-scheduling if need be. Honestly, covid will likely still be a thing by next summer. Even with a vaccine, herd immunity will take time to develop. Plus they still won't know the effectiveness of the vaccine longterm. Like if the vaccine will produce longterm immunity (something like MMR vaccine) or short term (like the flu vaccine). There are so many variables. Like you, it has definitely been giving me some anxiety. All you can really do is hope for the best BUT plan for both the best and worst case scenarios. Sending you all the calming vibes you need!

Where are you guys at now with everything?? Our wedding is moved to July 20, 2021 also!!!

View Quoted Comment Hi, Christen! Yay, July brides! 👰‍♀️ Things are VERY slowly getting a little better. We ended up cutting our guest list from about 110 to 45 a few months after I made my original post, which -- I won't lie -- was very hard. We've had a lot of time to sit with it and come to terms with it, and now we're feeling mostly okay about our day looking different than we'd always hoped. My state recently upped indoor gathering limits to 15% capacity, which is right about where we're sitting with our guest count, so that's great news. (I was super stressing about possibly having to uninvite MORE people.) Additionally, a lot of our family and guests are starting to receive the vaccine, which we're urging all our invitees to do if they have the opportunity. We're also planning on having sanitizer readily available and requiring masks when not eating and/or taking professional pictures. That's about where we are at this point! How about you?!

Our venue told us that we are just following whatever the governor has in place. We are 4 months out and I'm hoping things get better.

View Quoted Comment I meant to type July 10th! Oops! So our wedding was suppose to be last October 2020 and we moved to July 2021. We had a 10 person ceremony in summer 2020. Our guest list is 180 and as of right now it’s 200 people aloud for outdoor weddings (we’re outdoors) I’m feeling hopeful with the vaccine coming out as well and a lot of people have received it! But I’m still nervous about having that many people together. :/ I’ve moved the wedding so many times , so drained. Sorry you have to cut your guest list. So tired, feeling jipped, I hope you enjoy your day 💕

All the high risk people in my life have now had the vaccine, so I'm not worried at all. Cases will likely be low by the summer, and if my elderly and at-risk family gets it they will have the vaccine protection. I don't know when it would be safer really, covid is here to stay and we will never have 100% vaccinations for a vaccine that likely only lasts a few months (like the flu vaccine)

All of my immediate family, myself, and my fiancé have all been vaccinated. I’m hoping that by July the majority of our guests will have gotten the vaccine. Also if anyone feels uncomfortable traveling or is unable to (we have some family in the UK and Canada) we’re looking into setting up virtual access. Of course what we’re really hoping is that some of the travel restrictions will have eased up by then.