I'm originally from Pennsylvania and planning my Philadelphia-area wedding for 2022. I currently live in the UK, where my partner is from, so I'm doing everything at an EXTREME social distance!
We'd planned to visit around Thanksgiving and schedule tours of potential venues for then, so we could get save the dates out early next year (we want to give a longer lead time for UK-based guests who will need to save / plan ahead). However, the pandemic has potentially changed those plans. Of course, this could change, but at the moment you have to quarantine for two weeks on either side of the flight, and neither of us can really take five or six weeks off work. My concern is that this won't change by the end of the year.
I have a very promising venue in mind that I'm about 95 per cent sure I'll choose, even if I visit others while stateside. It's the ideal size and great price points for the centre of the city. My question is, would you ever book a venue without visiting first? Up to now my answer would have been no, but I'm starting to consider it! I just want to move forward with planning and feel stuck until the venue is sorted out, which could be put on hold until next year at this rate... I do have family in the area who could possibly visit, but I'm not sure that's quite the same as seeing it yourself.
