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Danielle
Savvy June 2020

June brides who have postponed or canceled

Danielle, on April 2, 2020 at 2:54 PM Posted in Community Conversations 0 10

I think we all know June is such an iffy month right now. I've been stressing about it every day and trying to figure out what call to make and when to make it. I just want to understand what other vendors are doing for people, because mine have been pretty challenging so far, in my opinion.

Some background: my fiance is from England, but we are based in and getting married in New Jersey. His side of the 180-people guest list are traveling internationally (England, Australia, Japan, etc). Most of my side is traveling from out of state (Florida, Arizona, etc). June 13 is the original date but our guests have already expressed being uncomfortable with traveling that soon. Depending on how other states and countries are doing by then, travel restrictions COULD still be in place. Thus, leaving him with little to no representation at our wedding.

We've reached out to our caterer/venue to explain our situation and to understand our options. We explained we aren't doing anything yet but just want to know what they can do for us. The caterer gave us days (all Fridays and Sundays when we originally booked a Saturday) that work for them and the venue, but nothing beyond that. The only date that works for all three of us is in July, which could still be too close for international travel. They have also been pushing that things will be fine "and well over by June," and our venue won't even let us tentatively hold a future date until May rolls around. It's clear to us we will not get a dime back if we have to cancel. We were told to reach out to our insurance company about a potential claim. We did, but obviously, they aren't assessing anything unless an actual claim is filed, nothing hypothetical.

FINALLY, my question is: has anyone had to file an insurance claim for a postponement or cancellation despite guidelines not including June yet? Are you hearing that insurance companies (specifically WedSafe) are fulfilling the claim just because June is cutting it close or is not being covered until the White House/CDC include June?

If you read through all this rambling, thank you lmao my fiance and I agreed to discuss this stuff with each other once a week to avoid stress on us, but I need to know what other people are experiencing to know if we should wait to postpone or do it now. Smiley sad

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Latest activity by Danielle, on April 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM
  • Jordan
    Devoted August 2020
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    Ugh, that sounds frustrating! It’s all about “what if’s” and I would think venues & vendors would be so understanding through this! I know June is still two months away, but some states have a stay at home until June 10th! Which means all other states could easily be right behind them! Personally you could most definitely fight this and get money back- there should absolutely be a clause for an Act of God situation. And while it hasn’t hit June yet, international travel will most likely not even be back by then. My brother is supposed to go back to Germany for his schooling & work and he isn’t allowed too. They canceled everything for the rest of the year because each country is locked down for months. I mean China was locked down for 4 months... I wish you the best of luck!! It’s really sad to see stories where venues and vendors are not be understanding about this situation that is just so unfair!
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  • Danielle
    Savvy June 2020
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    It honestly does make me really sad. Both our caterer and venue are family-owned and family-fun businesses. We purposely picked them because their family values matched ours. Now, when we explain that we won't have family at our wedding if we keep it as is, their hesitation to help us make a plan B is really surprising. Unfortunately, both contracts with the venue and caterer say they don't take responsibility for acts of God. So we got wedding insurance, but the insurance site already says they don't cover "any losses from changes made due to a fear of something going wrong." Which makes me think, unless the government says we can't have events in June, we won't get money back from anyone. But postponing to July won't work for us anyway. It's looking like we're gonna be losing thousands of dollars on this and THAT'S what's stressing me out--I don't care if we need to move it a few months, but I do care if we lose all the money we've put in so far lol

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  • Jay1
    Savvy June 2021
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    Dealing with the same issues. The venue wants to hit us with a 5000 dollar cancellation fee to postpone. They won't hold the date either. We are june 14 and have similar issues with people not wanting to fly out. I don't want to put my family at risk either. The say everything will be ok by june but it's obvious by looking at other countries that this will take a long time to heal. Not to even mention that the US has more cases already.

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  • Danielle
    Savvy June 2020
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    WHAT?! That's absurd. I understand these are their businesses and livelihood. If they can't give us back every dime, at least give us back something. It's such BS. I wish you luck with your venue, that's such a crappy way to handle this Smiley sad

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  • Rebecca
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    We postponed our June 19 wedding to June 25, 2021. My vendors were fantastic and moved the date with zero issues or additional deposits required. It did help that we originally had a Friday wedding and wanted to keep it a Friday wedding. It wasn’t worth the risk for us to try to “wait it out” because this isn’t a blizzard that will blow over and we have so many older and at risk guests (I wasn’t even taking my own autoimmune disease into consideration!).
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  • Danielle
    Savvy June 2020
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    I totally feel you. That's exactly why we want to postpone--we do not feel comfortable asking people to travel and gather so close to this chaos! Especially from so far away. We're just so upset our venue and caterer have been kind of difficult through this process. We're kind of hoping to hear other people have luck with insurance companies because it's looking like we're gonna have to lean on insurance to have any luck Smiley sad

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  • Danielle
    Just Said Yes June 2020
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    June 20th here. We are chancing it. However decisions change daily. But I’m confident and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. We plan on still getting married on our date. Thank you for the insurance note. I did not know about that. I am in the beverage distributor business so we are constantly updated. Can not sell if restaurants are closed but my company which is big predicts at the worst Memorial Day we will be up and running.
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  • Danielle
    Savvy June 2020
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    Let's hope so! My fiance and I are both in the healthcare industry and receive updates near daily. Obviously, everything changes so quickly so they aren't sending us too many long-term predictions but it's lookin' pretty dicey for June—especially for people with so many travelers. I suppose the best we can do is wait and see.

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  • Danielle
    Just Said Yes June 2020
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    Keep me posted. My mom is driving me nuts. Ha. Danielles need to stick together.
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  • Danielle
    Savvy June 2020
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    Hahaha yes! Will do!! Good luck with your mom 😂
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