October wedding

We’re in October and not considering postponing. We’ve decided that would only happen if our venue closes/cancels. So we’re still rolling with our date. Everything is booked/planned, so there’s really nothing left to do. How much of your wedding planning is done? That would be a big deciding factor for me. If we hadn’t been done back in January, I’d possibly postpone simply due to the closures, short timeframe remaining and current limitations.

I want to make the decision to postpone by August but my venue seems to want me to wait last minute. I would rather have no reception than social distance where we stay at our tables. Ohio is allowing up to 300 but we have to remain seated at all times. Lame! I rather get married and do something intimate and celebrate big next year.

I’d wait until late summer. It seems like last minute but make sure to keep track of all the things you need for your wedding, and keep in contact with your venue. Our wedding is in October and we are not postponing. Our state is just starting to reopen so we hope by late July we will know how many guests we can invite and I can start sending out invitations.

We are still moving forward with our October wedding but we have to check back in with our venue in July. The only way we would postpone is if they tell us we have to all wear masks because I don't want masks in our wedding photos.

If you still feel comfortable, you can wait and see. No one knows what the fall will look like. Friends of ours are rescheduling their October wedding but another friend is waiting until closer to the time. Do what you feel comfortable doing.

Ours Is 10/17 In VA With 60 People. We Are Not Postponing Unless The Venue Makes Us. I Think It's Too Early To Make Any Decisions

Hi Ashley! Here are a few additional discussions about October weddings you can check out as well: October 2020- Are you postponing? and October 2020 wedding!

Ashley, I completely understand. We postponed our original May wedding to October 2nd. Although Texas' Governor is allowing receptions at 25% occupancy, my fiancé and I are still feeling uneasy about it. Yes we want the wedding we've spent a year and a half planning and paying for, but not at the expense of our our loved ones' health. We also don't want people worried about social distancing and wearing face masks. Weddings are supposed to be fun and full of love, laughter and hugs!!

All brides are different. I am a FL October bride with over 50% of my guest list from out of state in the tri-state area. With travel restrictions and social distancing still a big issue up there, I'm looking out for my guests and thinking of a Plan B before they start looking at flights for October and hotel room blocks are booked. I don't want to put the health and safety of my guests are risk, and I also don't want to wait until last minute to make a decision, AND I don't want to make invites twice. We are thinking of a Plan B to Spring next year, or Fall next year. We are going to make a decision probably by the end of June, early July. I have reached out to all of my vendors and told them we are thinking of a soft hold and so far, a-o-k.

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I agree lame, if can't dance no reception here. However, I can't image in 5 months that will still be the case. So we wait....

Our wedding is October 30th in Massachusetts. We are still cautiously moving ahead. Unfortunately, our venue will not even begin the discussion of postponement until we’re three months out, given that summer brides are still trying to figure out what to do.


We have a plan b for ourselves, which includes cutting the guest list to whatever regulations require, even if it’s 50 or less (we’ve sent STDs to 157). Hopefully things should be clearer in the next month or so. I’m willing to do anything at this point if except for masks (we’ll move it if that’s the case!).

October 31 and we are moving forward with our fingers crossed! Won't make a final call until about 6 weeks from now when we'd need to get invitations ordered. We're in NC with most guests from out of town.

Our original date was June 27th 2020 but we pushed it back to October 17th! Now I'm also starting to get a little nervous about October. We live in NYC/wedding in Jersery City. Nervous about having people flying in and dealing with that and hotels. It is so frustrating. Originally in March/April, everyone was saying you'll be fine for late June! We rescheduled in late April. Everyone said October would be safe so we had to rebook things, find a couple new vendors, lose a bunch of deposit money . We aren't making any decisions yet, but it's hard to encourage other people to keep planning on 10/17, request off, reserve hotel rooms, etc. and all of the questions I know it's only going to get worse as time goes on. I'm as much in the dark as everyone else. We just have to wait and see what happens. The Covid waves are hitting different areas at different times and severities. The timing is crazy because we had so many plans for this summer and fall, including taking some important steps in family planning. I never originally wanted a big wedding, but after getting engaged, I got more into wedding stuff and really excited for the awesome party with loved ones. Got the dress, the bridesmaids, groomsmen, rehearsal dinner venue, DJ, florist, makeup stuff, the whole nine yards. I'm beyond frustrated. I know a lot of us are really going through it! I hope it can still happen for us October 17th close to what we imagine and hoped for.

View Quoted Comment I hear ya. Until last week, we were continuing with our 10/10/20 wedding. But just as this pandemic changes, so did our wedding plans. We went ahead and postponed to next October 2021. Our hotel in Vegas is still physically closed, we were nearing the 90 day window to cancel and didn’t want to risk it. Additionally, with life only newly re-opening, we figured it’s best to allow everything to fall into its “new normal” and work out the kinks before we invite guests to travel for a 3-day wedding celebration on our behalf. We purposely selected Vegas because we love going there, we’re both second time bride and groom, we’re in our 40s and we wanted something fun and less traditional (and we found the perfect venue for that). But with the closures, restrictions, pandemic, protests and recent re-openings, we’d rather wait until all of issues are worked out so that we can have an enjoyable time. If our wedding was local, it would be different. But, we can’t move forward based on guesstimates of when our hotel will open and guesses on the guidelines, etc. So, we’ll wait until next October and, in 16 months, all of this won’t be so new and unorganized anymore.

View Quoted Comment Hi everyone! I truly appreciate all the helpful comments! It’s really helpful to hear what everyone else is doing! We live Rhode Island and although we are in “phase 2” of reopening everyday is so unknown! Our venue is still on board and we did go ahead and book our venue for October 17th if 2021 with no extra charge/ deposit while still holding our date for this year! Our venue has been so amazing and super supportive in whatever we decide which has been it a little less stressful but now of course we have the family members and friends asking what we’re doing! We are going to make the final decision in the next few weeks but by the looks of it we’re going to be doing a small ceremony with immediate family on our wedding day and a large 1 year anniversary party next year on the same day at our venue to still have our beautiful day we have imagined together!