July Brides

View Quoted Comment Exactly my thoughts! If we had to postpone we would get married that day and have the reception next July 11th and have the same favors and such with the original date. Great minds think alike! 😉

View Quoted Comment I like your idea better with waiting til the following July 11th to get married, but me personally I don’t think I can wait that long for a reception mainly cause we are planning for a family soon after the wedding etc lol but yes, I like our ideas!! Let’s just pray this year July 11th will work out perfectly to where we don’t have to make any changes 😊

View Quoted Comment I hear ya! We can wait because we're not having kids. I already have 3. Also, my FH works for the NY Islanders so with hockey season, its hard to fit anything in until the summer months.

View Quoted Comment Aww ok! Yah, it does work better for you lol that’s awesome with what the fiancé does! I’m sure he’s busy busy

View Quoted Comment Yes. He's rarely home during the season but he loves what he does.

Hi...I’m a July 11th bride too. My FH and I were discussing all the “what ifs” this morning but we’re trying to hold out as well...we love our date and it’s also the day before my birthday. Fingers crossed all goes well!

View Quoted Comment Nope. We are doing a private destination wedding. Just us and our kids. I want it that way since 24 years ago 🙂

We are July 11th too. We are almost 100% going to postpone. I have family coming from Europe; it’s hard to justify asking my family to travel and potentially endanger themselves. And I don’t want to have a wedding without them. (I have three family members who have tested positive and that is a big deciding factor as well). I predict most people will not want to travel or commune in large groups by July. Though who knows anything right now! I hope you guys do what’s best for you! All the best.

View Quoted Comment I don’t think the media is exaggerating. The numbers don’t lie. I hope you are able to keep your date if you’re able. I presume most venues will have to stay closed through July. Good luck.

View Quoted Comment Yes, I've been following the estimates from the covid task force fairly closely. The media is focused on the next 2-3 weeks, which will be the peak of the spread. After that, it's expected that we'll start to see the effects of the social distancing and other measures. So, that being said, I feel that there's no reason to jump the gun at this point. My venue has told me that they anticipate all going according to plan.

View Quoted Comment Oh good! I’m glad I’m not the only one. While I hate what is happening and the many lives that have been lost or will be lost...I just want to get back to normal. Thank you for staying positive as well, I think it helps knowing other people feel the same way.

I’m July 18th we are in NY and it’s really bad here so we decided to cancel our large wedding and make it very small and have a restaurant reception after. I Just don’t want to wait too long and then have to cancel things so close. Also we got our shelter in place order until April 30th, everything is closed and it would have me set way back on things that still need to be done. I don’t want to be scrambling. We just don’t know when this will be over and even when it is a lot of people are having financial hardships and a wedding is the bottom of their list if they were laid off through all of this. We originally had 100 people to be invited and now we have about 28. We got all our deposits back surprisingly from DJ and Food truck. Now if we still have to move it it will be much more manageable. We honestly are relieved to have a smaller more intimate wedding now. We are happy as long as we get to be married. Good luck to everyone don’t get too stressed!

July 25th here. We are waiting until early June to decide. Most of our guest are local or within driving distances.


We decided to cut some of the guest list down. We didn’t send save the dates. I’m ok if we would have to cut some more out. I’m not a huge fan of being the center of attention so a smaller guest list is ok by me.

We’re July 18th! Like many others have said, we’re tentatively moving forward with our plans but considering our backup options. If we have to postpone, we’ll probably just do a small courthouse wedding and have a vow renewal and reception next summer. I’ve been telling guests we’ll make a decision in late May. But a lot of our guests are from out of town and many are from Canada, so even if we are able to move forward with it in July I expect the turnout will be a lot lower than expected. Still, crossing our fingers things will be getting back to normal by the summer!!!


This has been a big stressor, but it has helped bring some things into perspective. Whether it’s this summer or next, I’ll just be really happy to be getting married — I no longer care at all if people like the centerpieces haha!

Stephanie I’m riding this thing out!! I’m July 12th 🙏🏾

I’m July 17 and praying I can keep it as it holds a lot of meaning to us we did think of a back up date of August 21 but that’s not to far off from July so my thoughts are if it’s not better by May then idk if my aug back up would even work my venue didn’t have many extra date options but my gut is telling me this is going to be ok by July and my instincts are usually pretty good! keep faith ladies we will all get through this and you will all have your beautiful days that you deserve!!💜

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Yes!! Prayers all around for every bride that has to deal with this decision!!

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I am in the same boat! Also July 11 and I'm bummed because sending out my invites right now just seems so depressing and anticlimactic, I feel like people are just going to associate it with worry and fear of travel since my wedding is a destination for many guests across the country. Was planning to travel for a shower in the wedding destination for local guests mid-May, but that likely won't happen at this point. I know it's small compared to what others are going through but it still sucks!

Hi brides, our wedding reception was originally July 11th and we made the decision to postpone until September. Here' our reasoning for our decision in case it helps.

1. Last week we reached out to our venue and vendors just to see what type of plan b we could put together. We originally thought we would make a decision closer to May. However, when our venue got back to us there were only 2 Saturday fall dates that worked left in 2020. All guests are traveling so asking 100% of our guests to take off work on a Thursday and/or Friday was not an option we were comfortable with. I am also a teacher so taking off work, especially in the first few weeks of school, would be an issue for me too. Our other vendors also had very limited availability for Saturdays in 2020 with all of the spring rebooks. We realized we realistically did not have the option to wait until May to make a decision on postponing unless we postponed to 2021 or 2022.

2. More than half of our guests will be flying here, including from abroad, and all of our guests will be staying in a hotel. Many had already been holding off on booking travel, so our decision alleviated some of this stress for our guests. We also wondered, even if our venue was good to go, would the hotel still be functioning at full capacity.

3. While we hope there is no immediate health threat in July, we want to be sensitive to those who will still be feelings the emotional and financial effects of this pandemic. Some of our guests (or even us) may be recovering from illness or still grieving for those we lost. We also wonder if people will feel comfortable being in such a large group again so soon after restrictions begin to lift.

4. Our state is closed down for the next few weeks. My first alteration appointment was put off tentatively to the last week of May (assuming the store will be able to re-open by then) and my FMIL, junior bridesmaids, and flower girls have not even ordered dresses yet. We were supposed to go shopping in April. We were worried other small details would be rushed by the crunched timeline when stores begin reopening.

Some guests like my mom, aunts, and cousins already had travel booked so we decided to reschedule my April 11th shower to the original July 11th wedding date. The shower will only have a few dozen people and will be outside, so we are hopeful we will be good to go! It will also be nice to still do something wedding related that day.

Making a pro and con list was really helpful for us and reaching out to vendors was key. They can give you a better idea of what options you have and will probably have more insight onto how event planning is proceeding in your area. I think July could really go either way depending on size, venue, location, and the needs of your guests. I hope this helped!

I’m July 17th and my fiancé wants to get married July 17th at the court if we have to, and postpone the ceremony and reception if we have to. I’m really trying not to worry about it too much but if we have to then we will postpone.