July 10, 2021 wedding Ontario

View quoted message Smart move.

View quoted message Yeah you’re right, that’s what our venue told us.

View quoted message This is the exact reason why we moved the date from July 10, to September 11, not enough information yet to even be sure that we could have a good amount of people to make it worth it with the amount of money being dished out.

View quoted message We moved it to September 11! 😊 hopefully that’s far enough to settle this thing down. All of our vendors were able to move so it has been pretty smooth. Asides from contacting everyone, it hasn’t been awful. And I have people coming from the States so September gives it time for the border to open up.

View quoted message That was our understanding too! But I didnt want to risk it, they only announced the early opening for step 1 a couple of days before, I felt like I didn’t want to wait until like July 7 and be like “oh kk finally it can happen!” Or the opposite. We moved it to September 11, so hoping for the best!

View quoted message Yeah I hear ya! We couldn’t have 10-20 guests… that’s like our immediate families only, and for the amount of money being dished out I wasn’t having it. We moved it to September 11. Same venue, and all of the vendors were available, so we’re hoping that works out best!

View quoted message Hey! So we moved it to September 11… I don’t see any certainty in the restrictions lifted today lol but hopefully it’ll work then!
When is your day?

View quoted message Lol I’m telling you I couldn’t agree more with you! Lol
Is more like “maybe you can, but maybe you can’t?… oh you can…t”
Ugh we ended up moving our date to September 11, the venue had an opening so we took it. I figured hopefully it’ll be better!

View quoted message There’s literally still zero certainty of anything LOL this government sucks at explaining things.

Now that we have more certainty, what is your plan?

Our latest date was July 11, 2021 for ceremony only but we felt it was too close to the first step and just incase they extend the first step we are moving our ceremony again into late August. We cant have only 10 people, with our siblings and parents it does not work-we are hoping at least 20 people indoors in a church by August (we gave up on our indoor reception and made that for next spring). I think for outdoors you have more wiggle room. I understand the unknown is so stressful and emotionally//mentally exhausting. If you have to change things around guests will have to understand!

Our wedding is on July 18, which will likely fall in Stage 2. Our reception will be outdoors and our venue coordinator told us that her understanding is we can have 25% of their outdoor capacity for reception. She did think that the number might go up by July.

View quoted message Yep, these new regulations were just released on Friday May 20.

View quoted message It doesn’t look to me like those laws were updated (even though it says May 21 as e-law currency) but I am no expert in reading these things. Still patiently waiting for our venue to give us any info...

View quoted message The law refers to them as “stages” though , despite what the online guidance calls them.

View quoted message Just a note that the new Ontario reopening plan has “steps”, not stages. Stages were in place in 2020 our govt seems to be running out of terminology for their plans/frameworks lol

View quoted message I know someone in the same situation. Was supposed to marry July 2020 I. An outdoor wedding/reception. Postponed venue and vendors for this July thinking all will be fine by then. But now, they have no idea how many people will be allowed to attend, are not yet able to get dresses altered, or suits made for groom and groomsmen. A lot of money has already been spent with contracts made. The question becomes… if they can only have 10 or even 25 people (from 110 originally) why spend all that money? They could have just gone to the cottage and not paid for DJ, videographer, florist, etc. And should they try to postpone again… which means finding another new date for venue and vendors. Arg.

View quoted message Schedule 3 of the stage 2 law has a section stating that the restriction on gatherings applies “even if” the gathering is at a private dwelling. That means it applies to receptions at venues as well. 25 people outdoors

View quoted message That's only once we hit stage 2 and after. Not before I got my hopes up but no haha

View quoted message They thought it was 25 and I’ve seen a few vendors online say the same but that’s not right. Now that more information is out there is a “clause” that says the 25 is for private dwellings. How about your venue?

View quoted message https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/200263



I’m having an outdoor wedding but not certain if it’s 100 outdoors or what the number is. It’s so vague.

View quoted message Has your venue said anything to you??

View quoted message Can you post the link? Please😊 thank youuuu

View quoted message I’m pretty sure the 25 is at private dwellings found it on the Ontario site after some very deep diving lol

View quoted message We’re waiting to hear from our venue too! Hopefully they know something that’s nowhere near the plan? Who knows!

View quoted message Haha same! I keep on reading the news like it’s my full time job. I think we may be okay for it, but there’s always that “what if”
Not gonna lie, some days are better than others but like you said, it is what it is and whats supposed to happen will happen!
Hope you’re doing well and congratulations to you! 😊

Does anyone actually know what the new plan means for receptions? Is a reception considered a gathering? We are waiting to hear from our venue on what this means for us... I hate the fact that these reopening plans are like a riddle that has to be solved.

Same, July 10 too! With the new reopening plan idek... Once we get more details on the specific restrictions relevant to weddings (reception, bar, dancing) I'll come back and post here. Honestly, I am not feeling too stressed - it will be what it will be. I am just trying to stay super informed - it's my way of having a bit of "control" in the planning when we haven't been able to have any control thus far. Hope you are doing ok!

My wedding is Jun 5th in Tweed ontario, and with this new rollout of limitations we might not even get 10 people including us. We are doing outdoor wedding now as our venue, church, hair stylist, all cancelled due to covid. We are green zone. Does anyone know if a community is allowed to allow more people at a wedding

Oh I totally understand how you feel! Trust me.
Just try getting a feel from the venue and make your decision from them. You can always have the party after, and the ceremony then?
Im hoping for the best, if not we will make the best of whatever amount of people we can have! It’s not worth the stress at this point you know?

View quoted message Ok thanks I’ll figure it out

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The colour code system was implemented in the fall though so you couldn't have been "Yellow" last summer. It would've been Ontario Stage 3 in the initial roll out plan, which was pretty much the whole province. If you were given Red as soon as the colour code was implemented, then I would plan as if your wedding will be held in Red.

Don't forget to factor in that in Red and Orange, you can only have a certain amount of people per table. So even if your venue can fit 100 in the tent based on 10 per table, you won't be able to get that since you'll likely have to maintain a max of 4-6 per table.