i need your help! Trying to postpone our wedding

Hi! Our wedding is also scheduled for July 10th, and we have already sent out our invitations and RSVPs. We simply included a note in the invites about COVID-19 and communicated the uncertainty of the date and the possibility of needing to reschedule. Our family and friends completely understand our predicament of course.

As for our venue and all our vendors, everyone has been totally accommodating and they are all willing to work with us on a new date if that's required. We will be making a final decision in the next few weeks. That's a shame if vendors are not working with you. The venue shouldn't be keeping any money for rescheduling during a pandemic - if they can't hold the event, then that's really their issue, not yours. Keep in mind if venues open up by a certain date, and your wedding could have gone forward, that becomes your decision. Ultimately, everyone should be following the gov't guidelines for large group gatherings and take it from there.

We also have many family and friends coming in from U.S. and Europe, so that's our biggest hurdle. We may need to make a difficult decision to move forward with the wedding and know that some people may not make it.

These are crazy times - best of luck to all couples this year!

Hi Natalie,

We are facing the same situation, although our wedding is in November. Our venue is not allowing us to postpone until just 2 months before our wedding. We need to order/send out our invitations well before 2 months among other things we still need to get and are unable to with everything being closed! Our venue is just not budging with us. I cant see why they would charge you a cancellation fee when you aren't cancelling, technically you are postponing! I would ask to speak to management there and explain that many of your guests wont even be able to attend, and that just because there is a pandemic it does not mean you should be expected to settle on the most important day of your life! I really hope they are not playing chicken with you. They should be working with you, I wouldn't give up and keep stressing this to them. Hoping all of this works out for you soon!