March Weddings in Bay Area, ca

Omgg. Im so sorry. I dont live in the bay area but im pretty close. I just called my reception hall to make sure they aren’t canceling and make sure my wedding of 200ppl (maybe) will be okay. The hall has to call me back. Im nervoussss.


At first they said that the owners of the hall were limiting gas to 250 but now they might be limiting to 150. Which sucks because I dont want to have to tell ppl No u cant come anymore. But its better than postponing, its better than canceling. That means we have to comb through our guestlist and make cuts.
Also another thing is I called Them. They did NOT call me. If they were starting to put caps on attendance they should have reached out to all weddings coming up and told us.

Wow! The California Health Department said back on Thursday that all gatherings over 250 people, and even smaller gatherings if social distance could not be maintained, should be postponed or canceled. It's unbelievable that a venue would wait until today to allow you to do so.

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I would strongly recommend you postpone or cancel rather than telling people they can't come. First off, do you really want to be responsible if your grandparents die because they came to your wedding? And second, people will understand if you say you had to postpone because of coronavirus. It will be a lot harder if you're saying, "We are holding the wedding, but you personally can't come."

View Quoted Comment We agreed with our venue that we will not be having our wedding on 3/21. Postponement was put on the table by the venue but it is not a guarantee because we all don’t know when a safe date is. So basically we feel trapped in a contract with them and forced to pay the full payment. I was actually trying to figure out a postponement or cancel our wedding with Bridges for almost two weeks now. Their team were being very stubborn and not flexible or mindful in this pandemic.

View Quoted Comment Your story really resonances with me. I have been trying through emails and calls for weeks now and not once did my venue reach out to me. Also I am the customer they should be taking care of my needs and making sure we feel comfortable bringing our family and closest friends to their venue. They never gave me information of how they were preparing themselves or staff until valet week(after I requested). I feel for you and your situation for my experiences are very similar. My guest count was 300 also! And the venue knew. They just wanted their money and didn’t care about our needs. When is your wedding date? Are you making any changes?

View Quoted Comment I have already made an announcement to all family and friends and asked that if their plans to attend have changed due to virus concerns that its alright and just let us know asap. I have a strong feeling a lot of ppl will be no shows and Im alright with that.


And PS my dearest grandparents have already died and wont see me on my big day. Thanks for the reminder.

View Quoted Comment My date is in 3weeks on April 4th. So far no changes. If something more serious & crazy happens between now and then we will cancel if we have no choice. It sucks because we booked our venue June 2019 and back then when we booked the venue was booked all the way through october 2020. So I wonder if we postpone it would be until when. 2021? If we have to i guess we get married at the court house and reception next year. But as of now none of my vendors have cancelled and we haven’t either.

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Oh Monica, I feel for you. If I can advise you and your family at all, making the decision to go forward on the day or to change it. My family decided to postpone the reception with our 300 guests. We are moving forward with a family only at home ceremony and dinner, about 40 people. The decision to postpone was a BIG relief off my shoulders. So I really hope you the best with the decisions. Trying to get back some of my funds in another uphill battle.

View Quoted Comment Yea we were expecting 200. But I have a feeling we will have 150full rsvps. And even less attendants maybe even 100. Mix of distance, weather and virus concerns. I live in the central valley so im 45 min from bay area like oakland. I guess we will figure things out in the next week or so I hope if any vendors change their mind they cancel in advance and not the day before!

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Good Luck with your wedding and decision process! Stay on top of your venue and have an email trail of your communication just in case.

Hi Sarah, I’m so sorry to hear about your wedding having to be cancelled/postponed. I’ve been searching on the forums to try to find another bride getting married at Bridges. My wedding is not planned until August but I have also had the hardest time dealing with Bridges. Are you still having your wedding there but at a later date?

View Quoted Comment Oh my goodness! Finally another bride with Bridges. I have been unable to get any responses from them for over a month. We have paid in full and would like to have our contract canceled. Last I heard from them, they were trying to force us to pick another day, in August 2020 actually, but that won’t work for us. I don’t think things will be great for an event size of 300 at that time. If you don’t mind, What was your last communication with them?

View Quoted Comment Hi Sarah! I cannot believe they haven’t responded to you in over a month! I’m very upset for you. Do you have Sonal’s email? She is the GM (she’s not very helpful either but at least you would have another contact.) My last email response was on May 19 from Sandy. I’ve been in contact with them since April and I’ve been upset with how they have handled this situation. What upset me is them telling us if we were to postpone for 2021, we would be subject to 2021 rates. They have zero compassion for what’s going on. The last email exchange was telling us that their policy has changed and it allows us to postpone 8 weeks prior to the wedding instead of the 30 days they initially told us. The new policy change is helpful and allows us to breathe a bit but that took two months for them to decide on that. Let me know if you need Sonal’s email address!