May 2021 Brides

Our date is May 15 2021. We always planned on having a smaller wedding of about 35 people. The issue is that we are having it in Spain. Right now Spain is going through their second wave and americans aren't allowed to even travel there so i'm starting to become concern. Another issue is my FH doesn't want to hold off having a child. So now I'm trying to decide if we should still get legally married on our date and hold off for another year and half in Spain.

We had originally planned for May 2021, we wanted a longer engagement. This is not our first marriages so we were set to keep it smaller... but I am still a bit concerned for the Spring. I know we are booked at the park district and for now they are still requiring masks inside and no more than 50 people. Our list is only 65 but I honestly dont know what I will do if it stays at a 50 limit we are already pretty bare bones on our guests.

I’m really hoping so because I really don’t wear mask for a wedding but I did purchase some just in case

I'm hoping everything is back to "normal" or as normal as it can be by next year. I will say the discounts for planning now are phenomenal, and I mean that in all the best wishes. The uncertainty is the Achilles' Heel of it all. Thankfully my venue can hold over 400 people so dropping to 25% is 100 guests which is my preferred range. I recommend looking at an outdoor venue or those of larger (but still within budget) venues so that reduced capacity isn't a factor. I hope everything goes smoothly and wonderfully for anyone who's going through Covid Wedding Planning

I’m not even sure how to feel. I have all of my vendors locked in but I’m not making a decision until at least February. It’s so stressful not knowing what is happening but I feel it’s too early to make the call at the same time.


I am hopeful that by May things will be better. I am getting married on that day regardless. If it’s needed it will just be immediate family and the bridal party. The entire party if needed can be pushed off to a later date since the deposit can’t be given back but you can post pone. This is a worst case scenario.

We are in a unique situation because our families live in completely opposite places geographically (NY&Tx). My grandfather, who is walking me down the aisle, had a pacemaker put in this month and will need another heart surgery in January. Between those two facts, we are moving out wedding to May '22. We have already decided, if things haven't calmed down enough for everyone to safely travel by them, we will have two small ceremonies to make both groups feel included.


I really hope we can have our 100 person wedding in '22. I think things should be settled by then. 🤞🏼 But a plan C never hurts in a pandemic. 😩🤦🏽‍♀️

I feel things will be better! My date is May 22 2021

My fiancé and I got engaged in June 2019 and I’ve pretty much been planning since then. We picked May 15, 2021 because that is our 8 year anniversary of dating. At first I was sad because we had to wait for so long, but with everything unfolding this year we were glad we picked 2021. We planned on having a smaller wedding any way so nothing has really changed for us. There is a possibility we may have to cut another 30 people which we’re totally fine with because we’re introverts. Our planning is basically done besides a few details and the venue takes care of the rest. Being quarantined allowed us to get a lot done that I don’t think I would’ve done otherwise. I hope everyone’s weddings go great and just remember it’s the marriage that matters. To those brides who have had to postpone their weddings, I’m so sorry! I couldn’t imagine going through that. Hang in there girls!

View Quoted Comment I agree. I’m optimistic that things will be much better.

I hope it’ll be better but it probably won’t. Planning is still going well though 😊

Hey ! I'm just chugging along on planning who knows !

We have an indoor wedding of ~135 guests planned in Pennsylvania for 5/22/21. We are planning as normal for now but asking vendors to add a pandemic clause to our contracts in the event we have to move our date/cancel so we can get our deposits back. Hoping that best-case, an emergency vaccine will be available for high-risk populations and some restrictions will be eased, but preparing for the worst and will make a call in February if we will postpone. We’ll likely have an immediate family/wedding party ceremony on our original date and postpone the party to 2022. Sending love to all couples dealing with this!

We planned everything pre-pandemic for May 8, 2021 and just postponed to May 7, 2022 this week. Feeling really happy and at peace with our choice. Almost everyone will have to travel, and we want all of our family and friends to feel safe and comfortable coming to celebrate with us. We could’ve waited until the new year but we already have all of our vendors booked and we didn’t want to run the risk that they wouldn’t be available on the same day if we did have to postpone. Everyone was so understanding and the postponement process was fairly easy. Ultimately we decided that since we’re putting so much money and effort into planning, we don’t want to compromise on who can be invited or what the celebration can be like. We’ve been together for 7 years, engaged since August 2019, what’s one more year? Postponing now and not having to stress about it was the right decision for us, but it’s definitely not an easy choice.

My fiancée and I have always wanted a small wedding. With pressure coming from our families of having a large wedding, it's actually a relief to be planning our wedding to be small - exactly what we want! I'm loving every moment of the planning process!

Yes that is our current dilemma now too. We went from saying we were going to invite one amount of people to know having to back track for the sake of Covid. It’s become a a lot more stressful because of that now too, but we are trying to remain hopeful

Hi!

I am feeling nervous due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I am still feeling hopeful for my dream wedding. I downsized my guest list by about 20-30 people. My venue is still letting me have my 85 guests. It is inside but if it has to be outside for social distancing, I am all for it. Even though it is 8 months away, I hope it gets better so there is less stress. My wedding is mostly very close friends and family.

I pray it is better in 6 months 🙏 I’m only have 100 people so I hope we don’t have to do mask

Really depressing but trying to keep my spirits up. We were hoping to do all the fun things to plan a wedding as we got engaged on Thanksgiving in 2019 but when we were getting ready to do that everything shut down... We were lucky to get our venue booked before the shut down but that was about it until June, we finally got a photographer /videographer. I bought my dress on August 8th and should be picking it up in Dec. We are struggling hard on finding a caterer as money is super tight and all the caterers we are looking at are stupid expensive. Any suggestions on caterers for Italian foods would be great but so far we are looking at settling for Pizza. It's looking to be a chillax wedding for the most part but still very stressful when we aren't getting any help and kind of winging this.

Hey all! To be honest, I’m worried, but I’m not going to let that hold me back from planning my day. Our venue is super nice and sweet, and they told us that we can push the date back with no extra cost if covid is still a problem. We are trusting God with this, we know when its our time, all will work out and happen as it should. I pray everyones planning is going well!

I honestly don't think it'll be better for atleast the first half of 2021. My planning was pretty much already done since we were originally scheduled for a 6/13/20 wedding (for our 10 year anniversary). We postponed for 6/12/21 and I was depressed and cried about it. But now we're almost 100% sure we're gonna postpone again for June 2022. We're in NY and our governor takes the restrictions serious. Weddings are limited to 50 people and I don't see that changing by much. Our guestlist is small already at 85 and there's really no one we'd want to cut as that's pretty much family and close friends. Plus, we're not paying all this money to not have what we want. We're both also big on mask wearing, especially since we know multiple people who have died from this virus. Even if the mask mandate was lifted (again, don't see that happening here in NY), we would require masks and I don't want that on our wedding day. Also, my mom is the most important to me and she is high risk and i will never risk her health and safety. I also lost my job since they decided to close permanently, so with postponing I won't have the stress of trying to save with less of an income. So, 2022 it is. I'm not even upset this time, the most important thing is that we're together and healthy.