Venue just cancelled my wedding

Oh no I'm so sorry, love. Perhaps you can elope?

I'm so sorry to hear about this!! Keep looking around for other wedding venues in your area, or find an alternate location that you can use (maybe someone's house or a community center hall). I think once you find a new location, everything else will be easier to re-plan. Otherwise, maybe a courthouse wedding with a reception at a local restaurant afterwards? Hoping for the best for you!!

This is terrible 😞 and not the first time it has happened. Dry up those tears and get some phone calls made! What type of wedding was it? Indoors? When? Maybe people will have a few ideas, hopefully. 🤍🤍

Girl, I know your pain, what my fiancee and I did was that we ended up searching for another venue to host our wedding. We literally took time off work, and explored three outdoor venues that are still hosting weddings. It took five hours, but we were able to find another venue and reserve it, and I basically had them promise to me SEVERAL times that the only chance they would not hold my event due to COVID is if another major statewide lockdown happened, which I'm praying won't. TTuTT Just in case though, I have a backup venue if things don't work out.

Like I will follow every freaking social distancing rule known to man to have my wedding. I honestly recommend going on FB to see if there are any people on there advertising their venue to host events. Chances are privately owned, or couple owned wedding venues will still host your wedding.

I am SO sorry to hear this! Are there any other venues near by you can check? Maybe they will have availability on, or near, your wedding date. If not, several brides have been able to have amazing backyard weddings.

Best of luck with this !

Oh no hugs I’m sure there are other venues what state are you in

View Quoted Comment I'm in Ohio, and it was scheduled for Valentines day. Our officiant is working on an alternative location. We are keeping the day. Just sucks really bad. We had already heard the governor reduced all events to 10 people, so we were accommodating the rules so we could keep everything else the same. I guess other people were making it difficult, straight up telling the event coordinator they were going to do things their way, so instead of assuming responsibility for potential fines, the event center just cancelled everything. Even the coordinator was crying when she called me. She and I have stayed in close contact as things have unfolded here.

Oh no I'm so sorry this is happening to you! I remember reading about your wedding journey on here! Hope everything works out for you! Like others on here have said, I'm sure you can find another venue in your area. Good luck to you 💕

That's horrible. I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. What about having it in someone's backyard if it's in the spring/summer time. That's our back up plan. Or maybe you have someone who has a barn and you can rent heaters and have it in the barn if it's in cold weather.

I’m so sorry. That is awful. I hope that it all works out for you. 💕 my brother got married in a park with 10 friends. Maybe you can still have the wedding the same day just move it outdoors?

I'm so sorry you are experiencing this. I know what it's like and def still have your day and celebrate it. Whether it's the officiant and the two of you, or even 10 people, your day will be special and beautiful

Oh my gosh i am so sorry! i hope things work out.

Oh my goodness! That's heartbreaking. Sorry to hear that. I know you'll figure something out and it will be just as amazing.

Oh that is terrible! Where in Ohio? I may be able to come up with some ideas!

Ugh! I'm so sorry!

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Oh my gosh Kerin - that's so heartbreaking!! I'm so sorry you have to handle this crazy change again, especially when you're being really good about all the regulations!

Cry it out and do what you need to process these emotions, but don't give up on that February date! I know you can make something happen. ❤️

Thank you all for your encouragement. I'm not sure how this will turn out, but we are moving forward with our original plan, just outdoors at the metro park instead of their indoor rentable hall. Ohio in February could be 80 degrees and sunny or blizzard conditions - we won't know until the hour before LOL the reception has been cancelled, but we are still anticipating the big outdoor event closer to home to celebrate with the rest of our extended family and friends.

Only 1 vendor really giving me an issue on all this, so that's good, too, I guess. So much chaos - all because some people refused to adapt to any degree. It's maddening.

Good luck to all of you as you navigate your own planning. It has truly made me feel part of a community to be able to reach out on here and have so much positivity, commiseration, and support.

Sorry you are going through this. If your wedding is soon, I honestly think its a totally reasonable call for your venue to make, as the Covid rates are higher than ever before and the risk is greater with indoor/cold weather dining and events.

We postponed our wedding from May 2020 to June 2021 and our venue has already let us know that they don't anticipate being able to do our wedding next year, so we are considering pushing it out to 2022 or later (or just canceling altogether). We did actually get married on our original date, so having to change again isn't nearly as stressful because 1) we're already legally married, and 2) we have ample notice this time, but it still stinks. Every time we need to change plans again, we feel less confident in even having our wedding, and it feels less exciting. I'm just kind of over it.

I work at a college and our director of health services and nursing team is anticipating that a vaccine won't be widely available until late summer 2021, and that social distancing and other precautions will likely need to remain in place until closer to the end of the year because it will take some time to roll out the vaccine to the entire population and get everyone inoculated. Other sources I've read say late second quarter or third quarter of next year at the earliest for a widespread vaccine, so those timelines line up. When this all first happened and we first needed to postpone back in April/May, I actually wanted to push for 2022 because I felt 2021 was still too much of a gamble, but none of our vendors would do it then, so now we have to go through the whole process of reaching out to all of them and aligning dates again.

I say if you want to get married, just do it, and if you want to change your date again and have more certainty that it will actually be able to happen, look at 2022 or later. Wishing you the best with whatever you decide!

View Quoted Comment Have a backup plan! Or maybe Backup plans A-Z...so crazy right now! Not sure where you are in Ohio but wanted to let you know that is typically very cold on Feb 14th. Hubby & I have a black tie event that night every year in Mansfield, Ohio. I always have a pretty dress and inevitably want to stay home in my cozy, warm clothes. Thinking of you & wishing you the very best! 💛