July brides, are you postponing? Not yet?

I am a July 18 bride. I have been so stressed out over this and I have decided to just go forward with the wedding. At the end of the day it’s about you and your fiancé, nobody else. I will be 36 and my fiancé is 48, we want to start having kids and I am just not going to postpone any longer. If people don’t want to come then that’s their choice. It’s just a crazy thing that has happened to all of us brides and I don’t want to be stressed out anymore.

We are July 25th and we are still hoping we will be able to host our dream wedding. We only invited 110 people and we’re assuming we’ll be missing a lot of people due to fear of traveling so I don’t imagine we’ll have more than 80 people which is fine for us...our governor is supposed to make an announcement on May 4th about how many people he will allow at gatherings so that’s what we are waiting on before we decide to postpone...our venue and photographer are not recommending postponing just yet! So that’s keeping us positive. If we do have to postpone we will still be getting married July 25th and we’ll have a big ceremony & reception sometime later when all of this is cleared up

Hi!!! July 17th Bride here! I feel you pain, worry, and anger! This whole situation is just stressful because it is so unknown and seems to change day by day. I am still moving forward as planned for now. I am live in Florida and I am having the wedding here, but 100% of my guests will be coming from out of state (worries me the most), my guest list is already under 50 which is a positive thing at this point, but still has me wondering what can happen before then and will these re-opening phases work and make it worse. My fiance is completely positive we are having our wedding on our date, which makes me feel good, but sometimes the news and everything I read gets me down. I am trying to place all my faith in God and just know he has a plan of how my day should go. Currently my venue along with all my vendors has been a blessing. My venue has a hold date on November 1st as a back up if need be without any extra charges. Only thing is if another bride is looking at that date I will have to make an immediate decision, so it can happen anytime. I am trying to wait and see what May and the beginning of June looks like and how things are progressing before I need to make an ultimate decision for my guest. Everyone seems ok with coming as long as they can travel. I am praying for everyone going through this and my suggestion is to keep the faith and try and see what May brings at least!! I believe with so many states issuing announcements and trial phases, we might be able to see how well the next few months may play out! Sending lots of love!

I definitely feel your pain but I would postpone. NY will not be open to larger gatherings by then even in upstate NY.

I’m in NY July 17 originally still planning to elope that day but had to come to the realization that it doesn’t look promising we’ll be in phase 3 by July so I moved a vow renewal and reception to October 25th. Best of luck to you!

We want to move forward. We are okay with waiting to see what it’s like in end of May. We have some guests excited and some uncomfortable. Our wedding planner wants us to plan a wedding if we were in a phase 2 reopening, 50 people or less. We are July 18. I’m sort of torn though, small wedding the summer or our original plan next summer, but we’d loose our deposit and who knows what it will be like next summer. I’m sure better but still everything seems so uncertain. Some of my vendors are struggling major and I feel so bad for them.

View Quoted Comment I’m July 18 as well and my FH and I are moving forward with the wedding. We are okay if some people don’t show, it will still be a wonderful wedding. My FH would rather elope but I want the full wedding, lol. We just don’t want to wait anymore as we are older and want to start a family.

Hi Elizabeth! I just wanted to make sure you knew that we've started gathering resources in our COVID-19 Wedding Support Central, and I've also seen a lot of July brides connecting in these discussions:

July Wedding

July and August Brides Who Have not Postponed

July 2020 Weddings!

I'm July 4th, and we postponed to next July a couple weeks ago! It was really difficult to decide that, but I feel very relieved now that we did. We have family and friends traveling in from all over the country. Some of my relatives have told me they would not have felt comfortable coming, and I still want that big gathering. One of my bridesmaids is in the military, and unable to travel. We didn't want to lose out on a date at our same venue for next summer. Plus, the wedding is in Kentucky, and our governor said yesterday that everyone in public spaces will have to wear a mask after May 11, probably through the summer.

It sucks really bad, but I feel at peace with the postponement because I want as many people to come as possible, and I want them to feel safe hugging and dancing.