August 2020 Weddings during Pandemic

We're still going forward, however we're just having a ceremony and supper with close family. Our social will be a party to celebrate our anniversary next summer.

I’m still getting married July 25 we are just making it a smaller more intimate wedding.

Our wedding date is on August 2nd and we decided to cancel it altogether. Our venue is giving us a very difficult time. We put down $4000 in deposits which they are refusing to return. They haven't provided services to us so its ridiculous. After going back and forth many times they are allowing us to use the money towards a credit for food and drinks BUT IT EXPIRES AT THE END OF 2020. With this virus going around their restaurants won't even be open. It is just pure nonsense. Needless to say I will never plan an event with this venue ever again (The Royal Ashburn Golf Club)

I would definitely reach out to your vendors about contingency plans. Hopefully they are much kinder to you.

Our wedding was supposed to be this summer on August 8 but we officially changed our date to next summer on July 10 2021

Ours is aug 8 and so far we havent canceled it yet. im hoping we dont have too and can proceed with a smaller wedding instead and do a zoom wedding for out of country guests

It sure is a crazy year with all this happening and the uncertainty of rescheduling/postponing wedding plans. Keep 3 months prepared beforehand to keep your guests aware of their plans too.

Hello,

We have changed our date until next year. Too much uncertainty for this year

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Tell your friends to throw a really fancy birthday party using that lost deposit. Might as well use it if you're going to lose it!

My fiancé and are planning to get married on August 07th. Our venue told us they will wait until 2 weeks before the date until they will let us know if they postpone the wedding or not. We were planning on having less than 20 people at our wedding so I’m hoping we get some good news by July.

We were supposed to get married August 29th 2020, but have now postponed to August 28, 2021. It was a really tough decision initially (there were a lot of tears!). We had planned to to wait it out until the end of June, but that proved to be way too stressful mentally. We immediately felt a sense of relief after we made the decision though, so I know it was the right thing to do for us. We were very fortunate that our venue and all of our vendors were very accommodating and all had the same day next year available at no extra cost to us. We are still planning to have a small ceremony on our original date with just immediate family and possibly the wedding party.

Good luck to you and your hubby-to-be whatever you guys decide. And I hope your venue and vendors are accommodating

My wedding was supposed to be August 8 but have made the decision to postpone until next summer. We have a lot of people traveling for this wedding and we'd hate for them to miss it because they're worried of traveling. We couldn't cancel we could only transfer all deposits to a new date. If we were to cancel we would be out of the money we had put down. But i'm very grateful for all of our vendors and venue being available for our new date of August 7 2021

Thank you everyone! This discussion is definitely helpful.

Our wedding was August 8, 2020. We had to move our date to August 14, 2020. Unfortunately our venue told us to wait to decide, we waited and then they got booked up with brides who had less fortunate dates. The venue should have just pushed everything back 1 year for the equivalent day. All in all, our wedding will go on.

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Omg August 8 is our date as well!

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August 8 is our wedding date as well!!

Hi! Our original date was August 8, 2020. We just reschedule for June 12, 2021. The uncertainty was too much for us. We’re worried that when things start to open etc gatherings will still have a limited number on them and our family alone is about 70 people so we can’t really cut from our invite list. Definitely a crappy decision to make but also a big stress reliever right now!

Our wedding was scheduled for August 29 and a few days ago we decided to elope this year but still postpone the big wedding / reception . It’s still unofficial as I’m waiting to hear back from the venue on dates etc but that’s the plan. We’re just trying to figure out the details of elopement like if we want anyone there or not because we do but it’s hard to keep it small..

Our venue won't allow us to make the call right now and we will decide 1 month from now about our August 8th wedding. I am 80% sure we will be postponing. They are allowing postponements without fees to 2021 but the chance of getting a Saturday are slim to none. I did not ask about cancelling however our friends cancelled and were offered the deposit in credit format to be used within 12 months, which they feel is ultimately the same as getting no refund as they don't have anything else to use it towards.

We are waiting until mid June but most likely moving our date to May 23 next year instead. The Venue and vendors have been very helpful and just booked us in our back up date just in case. I've been seeing girls being screwed over deposit wise and im thankful everything will be switched free of charge and we have it all booked up and ready to go for next year Its a nice weight off!

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We were waiting until we were told we couldn't, and in AB the government recently announced there will be no gatherings over 15 people allowed for rest of summer, so that was our cue. It seemed like all of our vendors were expecting it, and they were accommodating. We have a hall booked, and I don't want to cut down my guest list, so we rescheduled to next April. The reason for April is I have another wedding I'm going to in June, and I'm impatient lol I don't want to wait until next August. I wish you luck with figuring everything out!

My date is August 7th but I am keeping my date for now. The guest count is fairly small for my wedding and I'm hoping that weddings with 50 guests and lower will be allowed come August.

My venue is waiting until the 90/60 day marks to inform couples of whether or not their weddings can proceed. They are also allowing couples to change to 2021 dates with no additional fees. I think most venues would do the same.

Normally I would postpone but I will be turning 34 at the beginning of 2021 and wanted to try getting pregnant shortly after Fingers crossed things will get better by Summer!

Hi Vanessa!
Our original date was August 1st and we postponed to April of next year.
The uncertainty got to us, our plan was to wait it out but our venue let us know that they were fully booked for May-July 2021 so we didn’t want to wait and risk having to push it even longer.
As for deposits - we had the choice to either lose it or rebook within 1 year of our original date.

We just postponed from this August to the same date in 2021. I'm really happy we made the call and I feel a lot better having this extra time to save and plan, as well as not having to worry about it getting cancled closer to the date.

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Thank you for responding! I would definitely contact the venue this week.Hopefully it will be over soon 🙏🏻

Hi Vanessa! I totally agree. The uncertainty of it all is particularly brutal. My fiancé and I were initially getting married this August, but we bit the bullet back in March and decided to push the wedding out a year. I think we made the decision pretty early. At the time I worried it might have been premature but now I’m happy we made the call when we did.


Re: venue flexibility, there is no uniform approach. These are unprecedented times and venues have all implemented their own unique policies, some of which are stricter than others. My overall impression is that most venues are sympathetic to our plight and are trying to accommodate 2020 couples. My venue was awesome. They gave us the option of a full refund or a new date in 2021 at no additional cost. But I definitely count myself lucky. If you browse related discussions you’ll see that some venues are really giving their clients a headache. I would def reach out to yours ASAP to feel out their approach, even if you do want to want a little longer before making the final call.
I hope that helps! Good luck!!