How to Plan a Wedding during Covid

Congrats fellow bride to be!! My fiancé and I just got engaged in July. We too are super conflicted with picking a wedding date. What we have decided is to go ahead and book for August 2021. Our venue we picked said they will flexible if we would like to postpone. We are planning to have 140 people. Our plan is that by March or early April 2021 if we feel that it is still unsafe and there are still restrictions we will move the date to 2022. Gives us enough time to let guests / vendors know and by that time we should have a good idea about where things are at with this crazy Covid situation.

Congratulations brides! We got engaged over a month ago. (WOW already!) and in the hopes that COVID will become a thing of the past we decided to plan our wedding in 2022. I know that 2021 will already be very busy with all the weddings postponed from this year and those already planned for that year. We both have family across Canada and in the US that we would like to have at our wedding and we are being optimistic that by then it will be possible.

View quoted message Thank-you, Thank-you! This is exactly what I'm going through (minus the travel part). But I feel like I can't even start planning because I don't even know the basic details for planning a wedding yet. That's definitely a tricky situation if your Mom and brother couldn't even come.

View quoted message Hi Clare,
Thank-you for the reply, definitely eases the stress to know that other vendors are being cooperative and that other brides are having the same problems too.

Congrats brides , I recently got engaged too and I have planning it in the hopes that by then they will ease the restrictions. We are currently living in a world of too many unknowns & most vendors have been understanding so far which makes the process a little less stressful. ask your vendors about their refund policies it helps you in deciding if you want to go with them or not.


If things don’t work out next year then I’m open to pushing the wedding if need be.
You gat this!!

I feel you. We just got engaged, and I would love to get married next year around this time, but it's so hard to plan not knowing how the pandemic will evolve. I have some immediate family who live in the US, as well as a couple of good friends who I want to come. My mother is in Nova Scotia, and I have other family and friends in Montreal, so there will be a good amount of travel happening on my side of the guest list. I want to pick a date, so I know my season, and I can know if I can do outdoors, and figure out a colour palette, design my wedding website, pick flowers and bridesmaid dresses and all those fun things. I don't want to pick a date now, and then find that my brother and/or mother can't come because of pandemic travel restrictions. So I'm in limbo, surfing the web looking at pretty pictures but can't make any decisions yet...!

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While I would love a bigger celebration myself so I don't have to choose between friends on who to invite, it also is an excuse for us to not invite random extended family that we have no personal relationship with and will likely never see outside of the wedding.

View quoted message Thanks Hank, that's actually a really good way to look at things and puts it into perspective alot for me. A small part of me just wants to get married now so we can use Covid as an excuse and save tones of money. I'm just worried that we'll never have that "bigger celebration" once Covid is over with.

I just go about planning while dealing with it like it's any other restriction. Buildings have fire code for capacity, alcohol can't be freely served and passed around without restriction, food has to be done a certain way, noise levels must be at a certain level, especially for outdoor weddings at night, etc. Once we go about it with that mindset, it doesn't feel as annoying.

If you absolutely want a wedding free of covid restrictions (50+ guests with dancing and no masks), the only thing you can do is wait but you won't know how long you'll have to wait for. Some people are delaying weddings until 2022 and beyond. Not sure if that's an option for you.

The pandemic has made both my fiancee and I realize that a lot of the things we want in a wedding are actually not necessary. Once we started knocking off a bunch of item lines in our budget since we can't use them due to covid, we realized we'll still have an enjoyable wedding that's much more affordable. So that's one way of looking at it positively.