Hi everyone,
I am looking to get some advice in regards to my situation.
Initially my fiance and I had booked a banquet hall but quickly cancelled that venue due to financial issues. (We had chosen April 18th with the banquet. Upon cancelling with them, we were adamant about keeping the date when looking for other venues... and also at the time of the initial banquet booking, we sent out save the dates with that date.) However, we recently booked a very nice community center ballroom which we really like, we had booked and we were waiting for approval. The gentleman who handles the permits called me yesterday morning and let me know that they will be preparing the contract for me and will be contacting me in a few days so that everything can be finalized.
My wedding date was supposed to be for Saturday April 18th 2020. We specifically sent out save the dates late July with "Saturday, April 18th, 2020" as the date. We were physically at the community center and were shown the calendar, and indeed saw that the 18th was completely vacant. We had sent the save the dates in pure confidence. The gentlemen called me again yesterday evening l to let me know that in some odd mix up, my chosen date was not available. He said that while looking through pending rental requests, he found one that someone had filled out one (for the same date- April 18th) WEEKS before I actually came in, and they must honor that person's request before mine.
I was really upset but since I absolutely love the venue, I was willing to choose an alternative date. I was told that I could either choose Saturday April 25th, 2020 or Saturday April 11th, 2020. We chose the 11th because it's sooner. Then... Upon looking at my calendar, I could see that our wedding would now be falling on a holiday weekend- Easter! What do you guys think about all of this? My fiance thinks that we should just keep it to this date, and then just send the invitations a little bit earlier to let everyone know of the changes... What do you all think?? I feel like there will be a lower attendance, but what can I really do? We don't want to get married later in April. We figured a week early is better.
