New Rochelle Wedding and Coronavirus Fears

Hi wedding date twin! I totally feel you. The county I'm getting married in has had over 70% of the outbreaks in my state, and I'm really worried they're going to shut my reception venue down (we're getting married on private property, but I wouldn't want to have people go through the trouble of driving up a mountain for a 20 minute ceremony and nothing else...)

Honestly? Postponing can be expressed by word of mouth. Have your wedding party get together, distribute phone numbers/emails, and have them send the same message "The wedding of *his name* and *your name* has been postponed for *this reason* and yada yada. I really don't want to consider this as an option at all. My FH and I have been ready to get married for a really, really long time. For your own sake, I would encourage staying off of social media (particularly Facebook) for awhile, since that's where a lot of false COVID19 information is getting shared.

I am deleting Facebook off my phone indefinitely and I am going to keep planning and praying that this doesn't affect us. They already banned gatherings over 250 people in Oregon (my state), and my wedding is set to be about 200, so if they lower that amount... yeah, I'm really stressing out too! But it's out of our hands. The thing we CAN control is how we are letting it affect our daily lives. Stay calm. Stay clean. Breathe. Enjoy your day to day life with your FH and plan on unless it becomes plain as day that our date isn't going to workout.

I don't have any advice, but thoughts and prayers to you and the region you live in. Hope things go smoothly!

Thank you so much for your words! Keeping my fingers crossed for you, me, and all the other brides out there!!!

Hi! First off, breathe. My wedding is the day after yours in Long Island. My best friend's wedding was 4 years ago and there was a situation with her now husband's father who was not well. They were worried about having to call off the wedding/postponing and with that situation everyone was super accommodating for the "what if's". The caterer told her that they order the food a week in advance and that was the latest they would have to make a decision of when they would charge them. This is an exceptional situation when I think all parties would be accommodating and flexible. I was a mess yesterday thinking about all of this. My dad calmed me down and said, we're planning business as usual and we'll make decisions two weeks before. My brother put it really well. It seems like the wedding is soon, but really 10 weeks is a long time and if we are still having this issue like it is right now, well, there are really big problems in the world. Send out the invites. Plan as usual. If there's a change, email or evite with the change of date, whenever that may be. We can't see the future of what's going to happen right now. We plan to talk to the caterer on Sunday and then reach out to our other vendors just to get an idea on their thoughts and then just continue enjoying this time in our lives.

I am hoping you can move forward with this and enjoy your wedding day! I'm close by in Stamford, CT and know a few people from New Rochelle. I can't imagine what you're going through but I think with a containment zone and all of the awareness, just keep yourself safe and enjoy your wedding girl it's hard to take my own advice cause i'd probably be panicking but I'm hopeful that I can at least give encouragement!!!

Hi there, so sorry you are going through this too, you're not alone! I've just posted a lengthy message regarding this issue. I think it would really help you to read it.

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums/june-couples-postponing-due-to-covid-19-encouragement/e2e6a03e5635af33.html

All the best,

Natalie

We did postpone and ended up sending our guests this note (via email and text) followed by a new invitation. not going to go through the added expense of purchasing new invites and mailing - making due wit what we have!

We ended up doing the same thing! Our new date is in August. Hoping everything will be better by then

Stay safe everyone!!

There are venues and vendors in general who are being shady in order to keep business going through this time. At the moment large gatherings are still prohibited by NY State. https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/travel-large-gatherings-and-quarantines#large-gatherings

At the VERY LEAST, if your venue wants to keep your date where it is, they have to work with you on a back up Plan B date or option in case this doesn't clear up in time. That's ridiculous that you would have to wait so close to the wedding to make a decision. All of your guests need to make their reservations and plans NOW, not 2 weeks before the wedding. So the venue should at least put together some formal contract or something on a Plan B. Once that is done, then you can call your guests and let them know that the wedding is still on as of now, however in case things don't clear up (which isn't likely so quickly), that this is the Plan B.