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Postponing due to virus and getting legally married before - ideas?

Anna, on March 17, 2020 at 7:10 PM Posted in Community Conversations 1 6

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Postponing wedding and getting legally married before - ideas?

Hi Brides!
We had to postpone our wedding due to the virus and due to logistical reasons we plan to get legally married before. We would like to have a mini ceremony when we get legally married with immediate family and another ceremony when we have the wedding. Our friend was going to marry us on our original date but now since we moved it and are only having immediate family, it may be odd to have him do it at the mini ceremony.
Is anyone else getting married before their wedding and having another ceremony at the wedding? Does anyone have ideas of how to do this in the least awkward way possible? We would like both ceremonies to be heartfelt but not redundant.
Stay well!

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Latest activity by Sarah, on December 28, 2020 at 5:34 PM

Devoted September 2021
Cassandra · on March 17, 2020 at 7:42 PM
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I’m sorry you’re going through this now. We considered getting married in April like originally planned and then having the big ceremony/reception on our postponed date, but we’ve decided to just do all of it together since it’s only September.
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Virginia · on March 17, 2020 at 8:11 PM
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Our wedding was set for 04/09 and now canceled. We plan to still get married that day but the judge and both of our parents at our side. We will have a renewal with family at a later date.
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Dedicated June 2020
T.c · on March 17, 2020 at 9:57 PM
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If we can’t have our wedding, that’s what we are going to do. Elope with a small group and then have a reception when things are back to normal. At the end of the day, I just want to marry the love of my life. If you’ve booked vendors already, I’m sure they’ll work with you. Maybe a reception will make it a less awkward, unless you do like a one-year renewal or something like that.
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Devoted August 2020
Lauren · on March 17, 2020 at 11:26 PM
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I've been thinking about this too as this is our current plan B if we have to pull the trigger and postpone. On one hand I dont think it should be weird at all if we get married and then have a ceremony and reception 3-6 months later. On the other hand I think that well maybe we should just wait so people arent thinking then what's the point if they already just got married. So I'm curious on others opinions as well. I just want to marry my FH, it's been long enough, so I'm leaning towards just doing what I want and having both and say so what to everyone else.
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Kristen · on March 29, 2020 at 7:21 PM
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People keep asking us if we’d want to get legally married on our promised date, April 4th, and have a big ceremony later. Our officiant even offered to do that for us. In the end, though, that didn’t feel right. We didn’t want to pick the top seven people who could be with us, and my dress was not made for a courthouse. We’re postponing everything all together. There will be one ceremony, one reception, one marriage.
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Dedicated September 2021
Sarah · on December 28, 2020 at 5:34 PM
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We're doing that - we got legally married on 12/21 and just postponed the wedding (again) to 9/18/21.
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