Reschedule wedding due to Covid-19 help!

We have the same dates and I’m debating the same exact thing!! No matter what I will get married on our day but that’s what I’ve been wondering if I should wear my dress and do like our first looks and such...I think I only would do all of that if we find a beautiful venue to do a small ceremony like a families barn or something! I’m in the same boat so please keep me posted what you plan to do!


When do you plan to decide on whether or not to postpone your actual wedding? I was thinking mid April? Not sure if that’s too late but I just want to have our wedding on our day if at all possible!

View Quoted Comment Oh Is it bad to say it makes me feel better having someone else in the exact same situation 😅 but one of my friends from high school who is now a wedding planner told me she is telling all her May brides to wait to make any final decisions til April 1st and then if we decide to reschedule then have everything set by April 5th. So that’s what we are trying to patiently do but I’m struggling haha but I’m leaning more towards wearing my dress, I’m going to have to see if my hair dresses can still do my hair and I’ll probably just do my make up. my fiancé and I still want to have those special moments. Walking down the aisle to him, us seeing each other for the first time. Plus I’ve paid a good amount of money for my dress so if anything I will get to wear it more than once. 😂 My family owns a Christmas tree farm in NC with a view of the mountains so we are just going to do it there. we were going to do a first look anyway on our original date so I think this will give us that intimate time we wanted to just share with each other. But I’ll for sure keep your updated as soon as we set anything for sure!

Hi!

My wedding was supposed to be May 30th, and my fiancé was wanting to hold out but I was getting more and more anxious by the day especially after watching the news so I called my venue and all of my vendors today to check availability. I am leaning towards postponing until July 18th. Its not that much time in between, but I'm so worried that this is not going to be completely over by end of May. Since we don't have any specific ties to our original date, I am going to move everything that we had planned to our new date. If we have to reschedule AGAIN, well then I would consider getting married at JOP and having something small and then a big reception later. I obviously want to wear my dress so that's why for now I want to keep everything the same!

I would have to send my invites out this week or next for my May wedding and wanted to make the decision before having to do that so it would be one less confusing thing for the guests. I feel like with everything so up in the air right now people would have a hard time deciding whether or not to RSVP and when.

This is such a tough situation and I hope you both get your dream wedding no matter when it is!

Our wedding was supposed to be May 9th too. FH and I decided we'd rather just go to the courthouse instead of change dates and re-plan everything (but YAY for everyone who is choosing to postpone to a different date). I'm fully planning to wear my dress to the courthouse and get my hair and makeup done. I'm hoping we can get some great pictures there and go to the park after and get more. I'm not sure if we'll be able to do a first look like we originally planned (I need someone to do up the back of my dress) but I'll try to make the best of it, like everyone else on here is

I think that there's nothing wrong with wearing your dress a couple of times, like PP have mentioned, if you want to. If nothing else you almost get two wedding anniversaries out of it - the real thing and then your party later

There's nothing wrong with taking comfort in the fact that others are in the same situation! That's really what this community is here for For me, I'd totally wear the dress twice. If you want to save some pizzaz for the big event you could always keep things simple for the intimate ceremony, like wear the dress and some low key jewelry, and then go full dramatic hair, veil and jewelry later on. My situation wasn't just like yours but I had a legal wedding in my country with my family, and a celebration a week later abroad with my DH's family, and I wore the same dress but a different veil, jewelry, and belt for the second one to give the look a different feel, and I really liked that.

Big hugs to you, Lacey, and everyone else here going through this!!