Postoned August Wedding

Hi Amanda,

I'm sorry you're not feeling 100% confident in your decision to postpone to next year. I'm not a doctor or an infectious disease specialist, but I do think you've made a good choice. Are you feeling any relief?

The general consensus for August weddings is that couples should continue to monitor the situation and try to make a decision by the end of May. You've already made a decision, so you're ahead of the game! You're obviously not alone in your sadness/disappointment over having to reschedule. Here are some other discussions with August brides:

i need you, August 2020 Brides.

August Wedding & Covid-19

My August brides

I hope you can find peace with your new date, maybe take a quick break from planning, and return with excitement when you're ready!

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I love 4-3-21 Haha! so cute

Dallas, TX bride over here. Our wedding is August 15, 2020. We’re honestly at 80% postponing. We’re making the final decision tomorrow. The biggest reason is because my dad who is paying for the wedding, lives in a different country who’s not lifting their restrictions. With talks of shutting down international travel for the remainder of the year. We also have a lot of family coming from out of state. I had a mini break down on Tuesday thinking about it. I don’t want me dad to miss my wedding. We are also probably going to do a civil ceremony once the courts open up

View Quoted Comment I honestly wish we could cancel everything at this point but with all the deposits... I just couldn’t think about all the money we’d lose 😔

Yes , my wedding was for July 31,2020 however my FH mom has severe asthma and his grandmother is on a heart pacer , and his aunt just recovered from breast cancer last year so them being around 200 guest wasn’t optional . We are now scheduled for April 9,2021 I’m okY with it

We postponed our August wedding, mostly because we didn't want our guests to feel obligated to come or at all uncomfortable. We also wanted people to be able to dance and see people smiling in photos, and in Washington state it wasn't seeming too optimistic. Since pushing back, I feel excited about planning again, when the past few months I was trying to figure out how to make it work to to the point it was being whittled away to almost nothing. We know it's not about the party, but we want to celebrate with our loved ones!

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We are in Massachusetts and haven't made the official call yet, but are leaning towards postponing to our Plan B date soon for the exact same reasons you listed. While postponing is not ideal, I think a lot of areas in the U.S. will just not be in the position to allow gatherings of 50+ people, plus social distancing will still be a thing for the remainder of the year, and I just cant picture a wedding party with everyone staying 6 feet a part.

Wishing everyone the best, we all chose a "great" year to have a wedding!

When you contacted your venue, what did you say? We've decided to post pone our wedding but I'm having a hard time trying to write an email about it. I've been pretty emotional about the whole thing.. and I need to figure out available dates from the venue.

View Quoted Comment Hi Katrina! Our venue was really great about the whole situation! I reached out to The venue in early April to try and get an idea of what we had for options and at that time they gave me a listing of all the available dates they had for the end of 2020 and all of 2021. They gave us the option of canceling the wedding all together and getting a full refund or postponing to one of the available dates. We thought about which date would work for us and the venue actually put a hold on that day and still held onto our 2020 date just in case things turned around. So we Contacted all of our vendors right away to see if they had the alternate date available and asked to put a hold on those dates some were more helpful than others in the long run we lost our DJ but we’re on the hunt for a new one no biggie! Thankfully he did return our deposit. We figured we’d kind of get an idea about how August might play out by the beginning of May so we made the decision last week contacted our venue to make it official and then we sent out emails to all the vendors to let them know of the official date change. We ended up sending out our save the dates via emails text messages and Facebook messages via our wedding website to make things a bit easier so everyone was aware. I know it’s very overwhelming but the venue should definitely be working with you and not giving you any pushback and this time of crisis! Do not feel bad standing your ground and telling them you want a list of the available dates for next year and you’d like for them to put a hold on the one you choose as a back up plan! Hopefully some of that was helpful!

Our date was October 3, 2020 in NJ but we are postponing to September 25, 2021. Our guest list is over 300 people and we can't imagine cutting it down to under 50 plus i would like to see everyone's smiling faces! Most of my family is in Illinois and would have to fly here so it just makes sense to postpone. I am sad, but feel good about the decision and definitely less stressed. Our vendors have been really great with the process of rescheduling. How are you letting your guests know that you are postponing?

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I have informed the wedding party and just waiting for these to come in to send out. It was less expensive of snapfish. I do have a feeling his mom may have informed some members on his side of the family (NY and PA). There are some people who are asking.

View Quoted Comment I love your wording! I think we are just going to email, text, and call everyone so that we can save money. I was hoping to email everyone but getting email addresses has proven difficult.

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We postponed from July 11, 2020 to July 11, 2021 and instantly feel a weight lifted and can feel like we can actually enjoy leading up to the day rather than just be stressed!

View Quoted Comment I was set to get married August 1st and we postponed to April 9 for the Same exact reason but we will be eloping on our original date

View Quoted Comment Thank you everyone for support! This is helpful, not only to me but also for some people who has taken the time to comment and hear what others have to say. After graduating from higher education, I was expecting to focus all on the wedding and now I feel a bit odd of not being as much involved as I hoped and this could be due to postponing. I am also working on plans on getting eloped, hopefully where we originally planned for the honeymoon and if not more local. Good luck everyone!