Ugh wedding date help

Hey, date twin!! I'm a similar situation. Sending you a virtual hug in these times!!

I was thinking to do a similar thing. Have a legal marriage on my original date and then the religious ceremoney later down the road. I don't think people won't come! I think people would be excited to celebrate with us. I would tell them, otherwise they might feel lied to.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing 2 weddings. Which is essentially what we're talking about here. Lots of brides end up doing 2 weddings even outside of the lockdown situation just in general. For example, I'm Indian but my fiance isn't. My grandma who is one of the most important people to me in my life is too old to travel (assuming we weren't on lockdown), and my fiance's dad is too old to go all the way to India. So what do we do? We actually did a small gathering in India with my family there so that my grandma could be involved, and then we are having the legal wedding .. well we were having it here in May, but we postponed. So, this is actually totally normal for A LOT of people under normal circumstances. And honestly, BOTH count as an actual wedding. It's just up to you which one you want to make legal. For us, both will be spiritual. The India one we did an engagement ceremony with the punditji (officiant) which has slightly different spiritual parameters than our wedding ceremony would so that they both still end up being different in some way, but super significant.