Postponing till next year....

Not at all! As a guest, I’d completely understand if you had a intimate ceremony and a reception at a later time ❤️

We are also doing this. We didn't think our original date was possible at all, so we postponed for Oct. But as of last Friday we learned we could still be "legal" on our date. Already had the marriage license so we were like why not? Plus our date is special to us. Now it seems silly we're having our big wedding/reception in Oct rather than next year, but I didn't want to go through the troubles of reaching out to all my vendors again. Plus as of now, I have my original team which is awesome. Everyone has been completely understanding. We'll make an elopement announcement once it happens. But everyone pretty much knows its already happening lol

We postponed our wedding but still got married on our original date. We told everyone that we would in our postponement email and everyone is still excited to celebrate with us in September. I really don’t think people wouldn’t come if they knew you already got married. I mean, as a guest, I would still want to go to a party with free food and drinks.

Our original date is June 20th, and we have rescheduled to June 19, 2021. But we are having a small ceremony on our original date, and then next June we are doing a sort of vow renewal. Oh and we are sending out change the dates asap. I'm curious if you would send out new invitations/rsvp? I'm not sure how to handle that part of because our rsvps for the original date didn't have to be returned to us until the middle of May.

How funny because I also considered marrying in "secret" and then have a wedding next year. I decided that it would not feel as special doing it that way. I am a traditional bride, so I want to keep it all traditional. My date was June 20, and luckily I hadn't sent out my invitations yet. I postponed for 2021, and I plan on mailing out "change the date" post cards from Minted which are cheap. My save the date cards were really nice, so I don't want to spend a lot of money on sending out change the date cards, which is why I opted for postcards.

Hi Sierra,

I think this is a great! I love the idea of having a small ceremony now and a larger reception in a few months or even next year.

As for your save-the-dates, I would send out an update prior to your initial wedding date. It's best to keep your guests in the loop!

I'm excited to find out what you decide to do. Sending lots of love your way!

Good luck!

Many couples are having small ceremonies now and bigger parties later. Even before Covid-19 we had several friends do this and we still considered the event we went to to be "their wedding" and didn't feel any differently knowing the couple was legally married beforehand.

Most of your guests do not care about watching you say vows to one another, they just want to have a party and celebrate with you.

Reading your post made me feel so much better. I have been contemplating postponing my June wedding until next year but still getting married this year on our date. Then next year doing a vow renewal ceremony and reception. Just like you I am scared everyone will think it’s weird that we are still doing a ceremony even though we are already married but I still want the whole big event. We have planned for it and dreamed about it so why should I have that taken away. I also don’t want this virus to complete take my wedding away so I feel like still getting married gives us something.