What are you managing to do with the recent coronavirus outbreak?

You mean May 3rd right? Hopefully by then things should calm down a bit, but you never know so just keep an eye on the news.

I think most vendors will be able to continue with you since they are local and if your guests are local you should be fine!

My wedding is April 11th and my guests are 75% out of town including me! I am just taking precautions and expect a few to not make it and leaving it at that.

As long as everyone takes precautions, there is no need to freak out or cancel anything. This is not a major concert or sporting event, where thousands of people of unknown origin will be in close proximity to each other. Even those that must travel are traveling within the U.S., so it's not as big of an issue. Also, the CDC has already said that the virus is less likely to be spread on airplanes, because of the way air is circulated/filtered.

If you wash your hands often, and stay away from sick people (like you would with a cold or the flu), you and your guests will be fine.

Those having destination weddings in other countries, or those with guests traveling internationally might have to figure out a plan B. The rest of us will be fine.

The news change so fast it's hard to keep up. Yesterday we were planning on having the wedding. Today our family is pressuring us to cancel/postpone.

We're going ahead as planned unless someone tells us we have to cancel. At this point I just want to be married! My fear is the panic will cause a lot of cancellations, and I hope one of those isn't the venue.

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Why would things calm down by May 3? We'll have a lot more people sick by then. We won't have treatment or a vaccine by then. I think anyone--and particularly anyone with guests who are over 60 or who have health problems--should have a Plan B at this point.

You should probably consult with your vendors ans ask what they are planning. May is still a little ways off and hard to predict what will happen with this epidemic. What I've found is travel insurance, wedding insurance does not cover epidemics. So unless the vendor / venues offer other solutions it's hard to tell.

If the majority of your guests are local and opt to cancel last minute, my suspicions are they would've anyway but now have the virus as an excuse. (I hate to say it that way, but I'm learning that people are like that)

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Sounds great, thanks for the insight and I hope everything goes smoothly for you!

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I was just saying I hope things do calm down by then, none of us know what will happen by May.

I'm not sure there is much of a Plan B for weddings without losing all deposits. I would say that if guests over 60 can't make it then that is understandable and just adjust your guest count accordingly. Unless there is a ban on gatherings (like in Italy) I think continuing with planning for now is all us brides can do.

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I agree with this. I think we can all say that we have worked hard on wedding planning for each of our individual weddings. All we can do is take the necessary precautions and not panic. Panicking is only going to make this worse. I know I'm 6 months out, so I really do feel for everyone that has a closer date and has to make these type of decisions. But hopefully it does start to calm down.

Also the outbreak in China started in December and they are having less cases now and things seem to be improving. So let's say it started in the US end of February or beginning of March. If it follows the same course (I know there are a lot of unknowns) hopefully it starts improving May or beginning of June.

I would just keep going on with wedding planning unless legit most of your guests cancel but if it helps, come closer to your wedding date you can reconfirm with all your guests if the situation by then doesn’t change