May 2021 Brides

View Quoted Comment Hey there. We're planning for June 5, 2021. Keeping it small and planning it ourselves. It is stressful. Any tips you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Before COVID was even mentioned, we planned on getting married on May 2021 and enjoy a year-long engagement period. COVID struck, the world fell apart and so did my wedding planning. Businesses were shut for weeks and I had to be hospitalized for an extruded disk. Needless to say, we try to remain positive and hopeful for our date. I refuse, refuse, refuse to let this prolonged pandemic destroy my wedding. We booked the venue and got the dress. We're penny-pinching here and there. I designed the save-the-dates and invites and used local mom-and-pop printing shops. Right now, we are hustling to book florists and DJs since everybody is pushing their dates further and further.

View Quoted Comment Same here. Made all my vendors put in refund, cancelation, and reschedule policies. Other than that just planning as usual

We are planning like it will get better, since that is what the venues is doing for weddings next year, with provisions for if it doesn't. There are different guest lists for different sizes which will be considered in January when invitations are ordered. I also anticipate strict seating charts for the ceremony, dismissal to the reception by call based on seating chart, and periodic dismissal times throughout the reception no matter what happens. I just don't think things will be good enough to not have to implement this. We are getting married in our home state and right now, COVID isn't bad here in the mountains; regardless, we are getting married on our date, even if it is just immediate family. FH's father is our officiant, so we should be able to at the very least get married.

Hi! Hoping all is well. Wedding planning has been going great for me. Our wedding is late May 2021 so hoping everything with COVID passes because we've spent so much money and do not want to have to even think about postponing.

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We are planning for ours to be May 15, 2021 and I am also doing it all myself with just some friends helping!! We always knew we wanted a smaller ceremony and reception, so covid is actually helping us limit our guests and make it easier to say no to some people!!

I am a May 2021 bride and am starting to worry about having to push back our wedding I know we’ll get married in May regardless but would definitely love for our families to be there to celebrate too. We already have the venue and such booked so pushing it back is all kind of scary time me right now.

We will be having our ceremony regardless (with immediate family)! The location of the ceremony may be different, but we will postpone the reception as much as necessary because we can't get our deposit back. We're planning on having a quick "I Still Do" Ceremony before the reception--whenever that may be.

I just started thinking about a backup plan. My wedding is supposed to be 5/14/21 at a hotel. We decided that if there is no dancing or if we have to cut the guest list to under 120, we're going to do something small in my dad's backyard with parents, grandparents, siblings, step siblings, and the wedding party. I already spoke to the hotel regarding cancellation policies and have started reaching out to other vendors to see what we can get back or if we can keep a credit on the account or something for when we do have a big reception. I am still sending out save the dates, but am including an insert acknowledging COVID-19 and that our wedding website will have any updates related to COVID. If we do have to do a backyard ceremony, I'm still going to wear my gown and the bridal party will still dress up. We won't do "change the dates," as we are just going to wait to reschedule until we are sure that it will be safe to do so. I'm still excited though. It will be a great day either way.

Hopefully. We've been hitting a lot of pauses in the planning process because of the uncertainty.

I am not 100% confident I'm not going to lie, I pray that May 21st 2021 is going to be my beautiful wedding day, anybody concerned at all besides me??

I am feeling nervous about it! I'm hoping things will be better, but at least hold steady until May! It seems weird to be booking a venue for May with all this going on and it makes me nervous, but I guess if it gets worse, all we can do is push it back!

Planning is great. Money has been a bit tight for us while planning but we are almost there with that. With the whole Covid, tbh I’m so over it. I have spoke with my venue and we are just going to offer hand sanitizer and let people know it is their decision to wear a mask. Here in Florida the mask thing has pretty much been lifted so it’ll all be by choice when the wedding comes around.


The reason planning is a bit hard on me at the moment is because my theme is a little out there. There is absolutely nothing traditional about my fiancé and myself. We are doing a full Star Wars and Marvel themed wedding. It’s hard to find things to go along with it. But I’m making it work. Thankfully my fiancé collects all things Star Wars and marvel ( comics, figures, etc) so I have most of everything for tables and such.
I’m not changing my date at all. I kinda have refused to do it. May 4th goes along not only with my theme but my fiancé and I set that date long before we were even engaged. Hopefully things will lift but if not people can take risk or they won’t. It’s up to them. As I said mask will be offered and option and hand sanitizer will be available so we will see. I also just want to add that I’m not having a big wedding in the first place. 62 guest were invited and of course so may not be able to make it.

Our wedding was supposed to be September 26th, 2020 but we postponed to May 15th, 2021. We are moving forward with our plans even if we have to cut guests. We already got legally married, so this will just be the celebration. As excited as we are to still get to celebrate, we are both ready to move on from all the planning and stressing, so we will have it in some capacity no matter what.

We planned on 5/15/2021 before Covid hit and had many vendors booked. I'm not sure what next year will look like but we are hoping for the best and are looking forward to getting married on that day either way!

I think I'm on the same page as the other brides as far as optimism. I asked my Grandma, who's a nurse, what she thought about the vaccines. She was thinking that Covid might be around for years. My biggest concern is this catch 22 of wanting my oldest family members there. I don't want them exposed to Covid, but I'm afraid if I postpone the wedding, I may never get to have them at the event.

If I limit my wedding to only include family members, that gets us from about 80 guests down to 65. That's pretty covid-friendly given the venue, but you only need a dozen people to spread the virus efficiently. I just had a coworker come in one Monday talking about this "small" wedding she attended with 150 guests. Which she felt validated the fact that no one wore masks. I'm looking into getting some masks made to match my fiance and I's outfits that day, to be worn during the ceremony and reception, when not eating.

Anyone else coming up with solutions for the big day?

Our original date was in August.. Our wedding is now May 17 2021. Due to covid we canceled our original plans. However, we have come out way better this go round. We have planned and paid off our wedding 🤗. We just have to plan for the minor things on our checklist. Overall planning has been great during this pandemic.

It’s even more stressful

Anything can happen in 7months
If we are restricted to say 50 people minimum then we are going to proceed forward and get married.... granted that things aren’t completely closed and shut down
My wedding is going to be in the Bronx, NY

It’s going ok stressful for sure and worrying about if my venue will ever open back up I’m going to have a back up plan though I have most centerpieces and things already but just still stressful and I’m ready