Moving the date..

How far are you with planning? I'm sure STD have already gone out? Have you secured your new date already so that you can let guest know? We pushed our date back but it was before we secured anything so we didn't have any restrictions. If guest are already aware of your September date, you can let them know of the change, by sending postponement cards, and following up by calling them.
If you don't know the new date as of yet;
The ______ wedding will not take place on October 14 as originally planned. A new wedding date will be announced as soon as possible.

I found that online that's why it says October 14th LOL

View Quoted Comment Thank you. Id say were pretty far into planning. We have almost all of our signs, decor, save the dates have went out, all vendors booked. I havent secured another date, for its something discussed as of last night. Im honestly not even sure how to go about it if we do. Hes embarrassed what will people think, but i truly could care less. My feelings are the day isnt going to be how we wished if we keep the date we have.

View Quoted Comment Hmmm okay so when and if you guys come up with a new date first thing would be to see if your venue (I'm assuming you want to keep the same venue) has your new date available. Do not be alarmed if they charge a fee to change the date. Read your contract to see exactly what it says about postponement. Same goes for the vendors. This part may be hard but not impossible. He has nothing to be embarrassed about. Life happens and things come up and your guest will more than understand. Your reasoning is exactly why we pushed our date back. We wanted to plan the wedding of our dreams and we knew we couldn't do that in a year so we pushed it back to save. Talk about it more with FH and if you want to get a general idea of what's ahead read your contract and ask your venue for an FYI of what to expect if you wanted to postpone.

Thank you so much. Im gonna talk to him again and waiting to here back from the venue.

We did - we were going to get married 10/1/16 but pushed it back to 10/7/17. We never did save the dates (another good reason to NOT do them) and we just told people we were postponing. We decided May (or so) of 2016 to postpone.

I would, first and foremost, secure a new date before you announce or share anything, as that will be one of the first questions people will ask.

Well my originally date was August 04.18 and I had sent out save the dates in March and I changed it to sept 28.18 but I didn’t buy no save the dates so nobody knew but the bridal party than I had to push it to Jan 5.19 and I just bought save the date again and I got cards from zazzle

What I did was make sure allmt vendors had that new date available before I even told anyone and after confirming the date I went ahead and bought those cards , nobody should make you feel bad as long as you change your date before anyone out of town buys flight tickets than your totally fine and make sure you do this ASAP !

View Quoted Comment You're welcome. Best of luck to you.

View Quoted Comment I love those!

View Quoted Comment Me too!! Best wishes!

I also pushed my date back a year you shouldn't feel bad about it. Just make sure you resend the invitations so everyone knows when it is.

I have done this, yes and no.

We scheduled our wedding for November 3rd, 2018.. things happened and we decided that this venue wasn't right for us so we needed to cancel the venue, caterer, and while we wait on confirmation of the new venue... I am still in limbo of whether or not I need to cancel the photographer. If I can't get all the details and confirmation needed in time, I will need to cancel the photographer so I don't run the risk of losing my deposit.

I say yes and no in regards to pushing the wedding because it may be a later wedding but it might actually happen earlier (earlier is seeming unlikely right now).

I had already sent out Save the Dates so I needed to reach out to all my guests and let them know that things have changed and I updated our wedding website with... the lack of details. LOL.

Since the reason for all the changes was because we wanted to make sure we got EXACTLY what we wanted... everyone has been really supportive. It has actually been hardest on me because I was in "planning mode" and now I am in a bit of limbo. Although, now that it has been several months since we canceled everything and still don't have an update... people are starting to joke that we may never get married.