Hello all,
Fiance and I are still pushing for our June 28th wedding. I decided to go through with sending our invitations like normal, but I adjusted RSVP date to June 1, which is a little over a week before our final count is due. Still understandably waiting on answers from our venue in regards with how much flexibility we will have in changing our final count/table arrangements through the week of the wedding. We anticipate that if we do not end up postponing our wedding and stay-home orders continue through mid-May that we likely won't see responses by June 1. We do still want to commit to this date and do as much as possible during the quarantine, so we decided that it is best to send out the formal invitations and reference that any COVID-19 updates that impact June 28th will be listed on our website.
We have already contacted all of our vendors and believe that we have a back-up date the venue can host and all of our vendors are available so far *PRAY TO GOD*
I believe that our venue has to be the one to make the final decision, but I do have a few questions and concerns and was looking for insight from all of you regarding this.
1. Since venue availability and vendor availability is nearly 100% for a specific date, we are almost certain of what our backup date is and will confirm that by the end of this week. Since this is during a holiday weekend later this year, would it be a bad idea to post something about it on our website? My goal would be to make it clear that June 28 is our date and to plan/RSVP based on that date alone, but in the event that we did need to postpone we have solidified *said date* to be our back-up date based on vendor/venue availability. Thoughts on this?
2. I feel like I have made good pace in planning behind the scenes, but I am worried that I will be overwhelmed once everything opens back up again. Our venue hosts a planning session/group tasting for all of the engaged couples (kind of like a fake wedding) where they have vendors come out and they sample all of the food on their menu. This was scheduled for earlier this year, and kept getting postponed for various reasons and is now postponed again due to current circumstances. I understand this and we obviously have a lot of our vendors booked already, but there are some things that will go completely out the window with the June wedding (like "choice of") and it would be neat to see the different fabrics and rentals available and not just have to wing it. This is obviously a preference, but would anybody consider leaning more towards postponing if given the option for something like this?
3. I am curious to see how other people are working with vendors on back-up dates and if they are able to hold dates for you fairly since they need to book other business, too. Is it something like if someone else is interested in the date, they have a waiting list or something?
Thank you for your help all! God bless everybody during this strange season of life.
