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Kristina
Beginner October 2021

Small ceremony/courthouse wedding & Pushed reception?

Kristina, on May 7, 2020 at 4:06 PM Posted in Community Conversations 1 6
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Hi guys!

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these stressing times! My fiancé and I are supposed to get married on October 4th, 2020 but due to covid-19 everything is up in the air. We don’t really want to postpone the wedding to next year as at that point we just want to be married already (We’ve been together for awhile now).
My question is what are your guys’ thoughts on just doing a small ceremony or courthouse wedding and then having a reception later on when hopefully everything clears up and there’s more ease on gathering restrictions? How would that work and what goes into just the reception? Luckily, if we decide to go that route we wouldn’t lose out on too much money so we’re just trying to see what all of our options are. I’m planning the wedding myself so I’m not too sure who to ask and wanted to get people’s opinions and ideas. Thank you guys

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Latest activity by Lynnie, on May 8, 2020 at 3:56 PM
  • K
    Just Said Yes May 2021
    Kerianne Vogler ·
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    We're doing this! Our wedding was supposed to be on May 30, but we pushed it once and might have to again. We are still getting married on May 30 and having a few people come over for a mini celebration.

    We will have our big reception when everything gets better. We are getting legally married first, so at the big reception we will do the religious parts of our ceremony and everything will happen as originally planned!

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  • Tina
    Dedicated June 2020
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    Our wedding will be June 13, but it will look a lot different than we planned. We just got our marriage license (virtually). Our officiant and groomsmen will all be virtual for our date. We have the videographer coming (with proper social distancing) and now we will marry on our front patio instead of our venue. The videographer is going to create a video that we will share with all of our guests at our reception when we are finally able to have it.


    We decided that it’s important for us to marry on our date. The celebration of our love is what is important to us.
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  • Laura
    Dedicated September 2020
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    I postponed my April wedding to the end of September. Hopefully everything will settle soon so you will have some stress relieved.

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  • K
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    We live in NYC, so everything is still up in the air. We were supposed to get married in July but have postponed it to late March--confirmed officially today. We'd like to do a civil ceremony this summer, but only if restaurants are open. We'd like to celebrate properly with just our immediate family (we'll have about 7 people). Then we'll be doing a religious ceremony and reception in late March next year.

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  • Dana
    Dedicated May 2020
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    That's what we've planning to do. Neither one of us felt like re-planning our ceremony and reception after having to postpone it. So we're going to the courthouse once it's re-opened and then to take pictures since I want to wear my dress.

    Once things calm down, later in the year or even in 2021 we're going to plan a celebration of our marriage with our local guests. We're probably going to see if there's a smaller venue or even a private room in a restaurant that we can rent out, instead of the original ceremony/reception venue we planned to use. Since it'll just be local guests it'll be about half the size of our original reception. I'm not sure if I'll rewear my dress but I might since no one will have seen it except in pictures. I think everyone will just be happy for something to get together and celebrate after all of this

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  • Lynnie
    WeddingWire Administrator October 2016
    Lynnie ·
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    Hi Kristina! A lot of couples are doing something similar!! I really like the idea that the party may be postponed, but the marriage isn't! ❤️

    Here's a few posts where I've seen others share their plans:

    Married this year - “wedding”/marriage celebration next year?

    Covid-19: Marriage now, wedding later?

    To all the brides who got married during the pandemic!


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