September Brides, what have you decided?

My wedding is 10/10 (Fl Keys) and I can tell you we're giving our guests hand sanitizer and masks - it will be optional as most everyone is related or together often.

Our wedding is September 12th, and we are not cancelling or postponing. We only invited about 70 people though, and are expecting about 50 to show up. Everything will be outside on a large property so there is more than enough room to spread out, and if someone is too uncomfortable to come we won't be offended. We just want to be married already, the party is just a bonus.

We’re getting married 9/12 too. Our reception venue is restricted to no more than 50, so we had minimal cuts to our guest list, and the ceremony and social hour are outdoors. Masks are required indoors in the county where we’re getting married, and I’ll have a few but I expect most guests will have their own. I’ll have hand sanitizer at places like the guest book where people are touching and I’m thinking about giving everyone a small bottle too. At this point we have 26 yes RSVPs out of 46, with a month and a week until our RSVP deadline. Cases have started ticking up a little in CO, but we have been doing well as far as hospitalizations and testing has increased majorly so I’m trying not to stress too much.
I think there are just too many factors to really give advice. I’ve seen people postpone because of family members who are high risk, because they want a larger guest list than is allowed, because they can’t imagine wearing masks on their wedding day- ALL of which are perfectly valid reasons for postponing and hoping things are more normal next year.
In the event something forced us to cancel, we will elope with our kids and photographer, and have a vow renewal next year around our one year anniversary. Good luck!

We are getting married 9/5/2020 here in Virginia. We postponed from April. We also have invited around 100 (expecting and hoping for much less). Outdoor ceremony as well, indoor reception. We changed from buffet to plated meal. Spreading out tables between two floors of the venue. Providing hand sanitizer. you got this!

I'm also in MN 9/3. We have an indoor venue and can have 50% capacity which is 60 people. We originally had 120 people on our guest list. We are going as planned, I just hope we don't have to cut even more people. We will be requiring masks to be worn and are providing hand sanitizer.

I'm in MD and currently scheduled to get married 9/4. As of right now, we're planning on having our wedding and reception since our guest list will be less than 50% capacity of the venue. However, we are looking at postponing the honeymoon due to travel restrictions.

I'm September 19th in TN. We are moving forward with ours. We are putting hand sanitizer around the venue and also are considering moving the reception from under the tent to fully outside we can separate tables. Our guest list had 164 invites and we think we'l get 140 responses but with numbers rising that could be less. But anyhow, we're moving forward with ours

We are getting married 9/26 in MN and are inviting 250. We are estimating that less than 200 people are going to come but we aren’t doing much different. There will be sanitizer provided by the venue and the tables will be a little bit more separated but we aren’t enforcing masks or anything.

I'm in Northern Minnesota and our date is 9/26. We're still continuing with everything as planned except for the fact we decided to have an adults only ceremony due to covid. We have around 150 but we're expecting around 70-90 to actually show. We have a lot of out of state guests that won't come with all this going on. We're in such a small town that nothing is affecting us right now. I've been keeping in touch with our reception venue but we don't have any restrictions yet. Our ceremony will be outside so if something does change we can just have our reception at our ceremony venue. The only thing that might change is the amount of time our photographer will be there. She doesn't want to stay long for an indoor reception even with all our precautions we will be taking. As for the precautions we will have hand sanitizer all over and I'm thinking we'll be doing the colored bracelets so people know who is comfortable with what. Like green is okay for talking, hugging, etc. Yellow for talking at a distance. And red for basically no interaction. I believe people already have their own masks and will bring them if they want so I'm not worried about that.

September 5th in NC here! We invited 40 guests for an indoor ceremony and dinner reception - hotel venue. With such a small crowd (compared to our original guest wish-list of 120) we figured an intimate dinner party would better suit our numbers than trying to force a sad little dance party.

We're holding strong on those plans as long as we can but if NC moves us back to Phase 1 (Safer at Home) again we have agreed to get married in our apartment courtyard with just our immediate families. At this point we just want to be married -- if we can have guests GREAT, if not we're doing it anyway.

In Northern Nevada, original date was September 19th but we postponed to be August 2021. So happy we did bc they just changed to bar and restaurant requirements. So gopi g next year COVID with not be an issue like it is this year. I couldn't cut the guest list and I didnt want to compromise health and safety of our guests, so next year it is! Best part. . .I get to be excited about my weddi g day now!

View Quoted Comment Margaret, we are September 12 in the Keys!! You’re the first I have seen with our same location💕 we are riding it out and still planning as normal. We had a smaller guest count of about 40 and our venue is all outside. As long as everything is open and we are allowed there, we will be getting married despite any mask or other restrictions/requirements. Good luck!!!! 💜

Our day was supposed to be 9/12/2020. Just today we postponed to 9/18/2021. We are in Texas where currently outdoor weddings are capped at 100. We invited more than that but truly were only expecting to have about 100 under “normal” circumstances. However..there were important guests that were hesitant to attend (because most everybody is out of state or out of city and Texas is not looking good). I also don’t want to wear a mask with my wedding dress..there are too many at risk guests who would come because they love us and want to be there but risking their health is not worth it. It just wouldn’t be the wedding we envisioned. Of course postponing is the last thing we truly wanted to do but for us in the end it seemed like the most responsible thing to do. We also thought it was too risky to go forward as originally planned and risk getting forced to postpone like 2 weeks out or something. I didn’t want to deal with that stress. That said..we don’t be postponing twice and come hell or high water in September 2021 it’s happening!