Texas Summer Brides!

Love this! I feel optimistic some days and terrified others! My fiancé and I are attending a wedding in July here in Texas so that gives us hope for our September wedding. Fingers crossed for all of us!!

View Quoted Comment Well, we were debating postponing due to almost everyone needing to travel here, but we don't seem to have an option now! So we're going to stay the course and make lemonade out of our lemons. People should still come - hopefully our parents most of all.

View Quoted Comment That’s how we feel too. But we haven’t had anyone express any concern so far. I think everyone is ready to celebrate and move on!

We scheduled from April 18th to August 30th in TX. With Governor Abbott’s announcement today I feel like things are falling apart again... how are y’all handling the fear of postponing again? I really really don’t want to postpone again but I also want all of our families to be there to celebrate, we’ve been together for 6 years so this is more about our families joining together! Of course I have already sent the second round of invites....

View Quoted Comment We're melting down pretty much. Or I should say I am. I think at this point we may just have to accept that we'll do a fancy vow renewal several years from now and fall it a day lol. We got married on a zoom call on our original date, which sucked but....what can you do? I'd argue Abbott isn't doing enough, but he knows a full lockdown would be hard to enforce. This is his fine line.

Also, me last night.

I’m trying to stay strong. My wedding is on November 14th and there’s a part of me that prays it’ll at least slow down by then but there’s also another part of me that’s just like stop the wedding planning and wait until it clears. Me and FH had a 2 year long engagement now we’re just ready to get everything over with and be married.

Who are y’all venues

Our original wedding date was May 16, 2020 and we postponed to August 1, 2020. Honestly... it's been such an emotional roller coaster this past week. I didn't even want to get my wedding dress from my alterations lady until this past Saturday when my fiance nudged me to do so. I felt pretty good throughout June about having the wedding until the numbers started rising and even though I called some vendors to get temperature checks on them today, they were all confirming their July/August weddings were still good to go. Still... you know? There's that doubt creeping in and making itself at home in my mind...

My fiance and I have had long conversations and many tears (from me mostly!) about this and how we're going to have to go through with our celebration on August 1st no matter what if all of Texas is not under lockdown. He doubts Abbott will scale back to full lockdown (he thinks he would apply stricter measures to only the counties that are spiking like he did earlier when he didn't allow Amarillo to move forward in the phase system), but sees him capable of reducing capacity sizes, which I'm okay with since we have a smaller wedding at this point than the original vision of 150 guests. He's been very straight to the point with me- we're in a pandemic, we will need to adapt to this situation and match our behaviors according to the situation and have our wedding be a thoughtful reflection of that and of our long awaited union as man and wife. And I'm okay with that... just not with the uncertainty of everything floating around and not knowing one day to the next what our guest count is going to be. Again, I come back to how we can only do so much from our end; our invitees and the situation we find ourselves in July are the ones ultimately deciding what the risk is at that point. And so we must adapt and include things (like a livestream of our ceremony) as a response to that. After all, there's no guarantee that we won't still be in this rollercoaster game of ups and downs in 2021 until a vaccine is universally available.

Hi ladies,


First I want to congrats you all on your weddings, no matter what is going on, it is a happy memorial moment that we should celebrate and stay calm and positive though it can be very hard to do during these times. Our wedding is on August 8th and I had many long discussions with fh, then with family members. Everyone is very supportive but I cant stop feeling nervous about the covid situation in texas right now. Our venue is in plano, i talked to the venue people and they won't postpone the event as they are still allowed to operate at 50% capacity. We will continue moving forward with the plan while watching the situation since there is no guarantee that the virus will be over next year either. Our main concern is our parents flying in from out of town. We tried to persuade them not to but they insisted on coming. I feel like the only thing I could do to keep them safe without upsetting anyone is to postpone the wedding.
On top of that, my moh has been sending articles of how many people died, what is risk level of having a wedding comparing to other activities, and today she sent me an article of one groom died 2 days after the wedding due to covid. I understand she cares but all these have put so much pressure on me. Anyway, I will try to stay calm as much as I can.
Hang in there Texas brides!!!