So I have probably read way too many others stories on here trying to decide what to do about our upcoming June 6th 2020 wedding and I am just torn so many ways as to what to do with the COVID 19 situation.
The biggest factor in our wedding planning is that my (bride) entire side of the family is coming from the UK, including my 77 year old grandmother who is my only living grandparent and two cousins who are also bridesmaids - not to mention all my other aunts and uncles (about 25 people). This is pretty much the only family I have other than my parents, 2 siblings and my dads one brother and wife who live in KS (even their attendance is questionable as my aunt had polio as a child). I don't want to put anyone at risk, and I don't think we will be out of the woods by June with all this COVID 19 - I am not even sure if flights will even be flying from the UK by that point. I have talked with some of my family and they are totally understanding of the situation should we have to go ahead without them but I don't know if I could live with not having them their with me on such a special day and sharing in that moment. I feel like I would regret it looking back on the memories and feel like something was missing by not having them there.
We have discussed with the Venue - which has proven a bit difficult since it is so popular - alternative dates End of July, Mid-Sept or End of October with July 31st being the ideal date but my Fiance has expressed concerns that this still may not be enough time for my relatives to make it here. And I am struggling with having what was supposed to be a summer wedding (Photos/dresses/flowers) now be a fall wedding - especially with all the money we spent on photos that they will forever be immortalized and look off and tell the story of how things had to change.
The only other option on the table is to push everything back an entire year - possibly get actually married this year at the court house but push the ceremony/reception back so that my family can still make it from the UK. I am just so torn. I had the perfect day planned and had been planning for over a year and a half (feels like I had been planning it much longer) and now it is all just a mess. We have already cancelled our honeymoon to Croatia.
I know there are so many others in this boat and dealing with the same situations and it is just so hard to know what to do. We cancelled my Bachelorette and if there is no bridal shower thats fine too - but the wedding means so much to me!! ANY ADVICE ANYONE HAS IS SOOO APPRECIATED!!!!
