Stupid covid

Why can't small be a fun and good celebration?

View Quoted Comment What??? Sorry this doesn’t make sense

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Sorry. What I mean it why does a small wedding have to be seen as not wedding like? I get being upset about COVID and you have that right to be frustrated. Was it not possible to move the wedding next year to the date you want? If not, why not make the one you want as special as possible even if you do not have the full guest list you want? You can still make your celebration special and as wedding as possible.

View Quoted Comment We are doing it to have our wedding date we picked out two years ago. And I bought everything for the wedding that says the date on it including the year.
It was my maid of honors suggestion to do a very small ceremony in my parents backyard nothing special at all and then next year have the vow renewals and the actual party with the dress and everyone I hired and the photographer everything.
I got everyone I hired for next year but the date of our wedding next year is a Monday and we want a weekend so people can go and it’s destination wedding as well.

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Ahhhhh ok. Nothing wrong with doing something this year and I dunno where you live. Not to spend too much money but I feel to make you excited have a backyard reception but the ceremony elsewhere. Have your bridal party wear their dresses. Wear your dress and use all that you bought. It will not be your full wedding you imagined but make it be nice because I think if you feel un excited about it the day will not be fun. Make the best of it.

Based on how often this same topic is posted on here, I’d say that LOTS of couples are doing that same thing.

View Quoted Comment Definitely no dress for any of us I never got mine fitted and the girls didn’t buy there’s because of all this.
We bought shirts and are wearing shorts. There is cake
Next year is the big party and all the stuff that goes along with a well planned out wedding with a DJ. Photographer. Venue. The cake. Dresses. Tux. Honeymoon. Everything. I feel at this point I buy A LOT of time and work into what I really really wanted two years worth and I’m not going to put all of it into something no one will be there to see but like 5 people. My first wedding was a bust I want my second to be perfect just like anyone else would

View Quoted Comment Oooo my bad 😁 I don’t read the forums honestly. I haven’t been on wedding wire since I postponed the wedding to next year. 🤷🏻‍♀️

View Quoted Comment No problem at all. Covid has crashed so many of our weddings that it’s crazy. But I know it will all work out. Best wishes!

We had contemplated doing this, because the date we picked this year is incredibly meaningful and important to us. But, after some thought, we decided to just postpone the entire thing and get married on our new date. I’ve recently been to 2 “weddings” where the couple had already gotten married prior (One eloped, and one had a quick civil ceremony before going into the service), and it just wasn’t the same vibe as a traditional wedding. Not nearly as many people showed up to either one of them, because “Why go, they are already married?“. It just seemed like it wasn’t as special or as important since they had already taken their vows.

There's several women in your position. Jusy try to remain positive in this uncontrollable situation.

Yes, we are! Our wedding was already going to be small with 50 people, but we had to postpone it and can't pick our new date until mid-September. So we're getting married with just us, our officiant and my MOH to be our witness and our photographer. It was important to me that no one else be there - 1) so it doesn't take away from our postponed "big day" 2) so we get to experience an intimate moment of getting married with just us, and the big celebration with everyone else. I won't be wearing my dress, we'll be saving our written vows, no cake, etc. We'll also be going on a little minimoon just for a couple nights up the coast. It's horrible that all our weddings are being canceled, but awesome that we get to celebrate our marriage twice. Wish you the best!!

View Quoted Comment That’s kind of what we are doing to!! But we are having like 10 people there. Grandmas are the important part. And a very small cake. We kind of made it like a small BBQ with a random 5 minute ceremony in the middle.
The people going on the 2nd will be there next year too I mean I can’t imagine immediate family going “nawwww saw it once we are good”.
Just not how a family I feel operates.
Wish you the best as well!!

I am getting married in September, everything is all set to go. Thankfully, my locations are open and welcome our guests. However, due to my own comfort levels, we have chosen to cut our guest list down to at least half which would be no more than 50 guests in a reception space that normally accommodates 100. Chances are, there will be fewer than that who actually attend. My grief has come more from the honeymoon plans than the wedding itself. We have planned a Disney world honeymoon, but we are seriously considering cancelling and booking a cabin in Gatlinburg instead for a few days. I did have a couple family members back out of the bridal party due to health concerns for either themselves or for compromised family members they live with. I completely understand and support their decision and no matter how big or small, the important thing is 2 people who love each other can come together and celebrate their marriage and the start of their life together. It doesn't matter the size of the group you get to celebrate with. I am adding an insert into my invitations for those my reception venue cannot accommodate so we can make plans to celebrate another time and in a unique way instead of spending the money again for another big party.

Yes, our wedding was originally in March. We did a church ceremony of our immediate family. I’ve changed my date twice thinking this would have improved by now but with the increase of cases and the August date being about six weeks out, it appears I’ll be trying to make arrangements for next year. Reception venue is being very cooperative; hope my other vendors do the same 🙏🏽

No, we postponed. 2020 has such bad vibes and we didn’t want to have our wedding this year.

We are. Ceremony this year is is at the same venue (they offered to let us have that and the officiant free of charge). It’ll be about 25 people max and we added on a small cocktail party for after, and a tiny version of our wedding cake. We had planned over two years in advance and didn’t want to wait another year. Hoping to still have our honeymoon, depending on where things stand with the virus there.


Then next year on the same day we’re doing much of what we originally planned as a renewal ceremony and full reception, with our original guest list.