Postponing your Wedding

I'm 100% with you there on not wanting to postpone. It's been extremely difficult to think about doing it, and honestly I haven't enjoyed one second of wedding planning so I can't even imagine having to email all the vendors and search for another date.

It's totally ok for you to be upset about having it not be what you want. I applaud all the brides who have managed to figure out a new date- you're a trooper.

I hope everything works out for you and that you get through this the best you know how

In ontario were not allowed gatherings of more than 5 people. im hoping i wont have to postpone mine i will be so upset. im so sad about this whole situation everything has our specific wedding date on it and all our vendors have been secured and most of them already paid for

We just cancelled ours (date aug 22)
Decided to just do a courthouse type thing and renew vows and have a reception next year.
We had 250+ people coming from all around the province plus out of country. No idea when all of this will be over. Better safe than sorry.

View quoted message Yes I can for sure understand the stress being gone once you decide to postpone. We are getting to that stage as well. Just have to actually go through with it I guess. My boyfriend is very done talking about the wedding and very stressed with it and work so I hate pushing it more. I feel like the only option is to postpone at this point. Our photographer reached out to me and said how he isnt even allowed to do weddings since he isnt essential and wedding commissioners cant even prefers weddings right now. The BC government said they dont expect this to clear up till the summer.


It's just hard to postpone for another year.

We were upset at first but now we're dealing with it. When we finally made the postponement call, it was actually a huge sigh of relief to just let it go. We're still getting legally married this Saturday with the bare minimum of 5 people (the most that's allowed in Ontario), and we're doing it on our front lawn so some of our family can watch in their cars (they did not approve of using the zoom app).
For the most part vendors and family have been really understanding, although some people don't understand why we can't wait to get legally married. I think once all of this is over, it will be an even better party once people can relax and socialize again.

We aren't in a position to postpone yet, but if we have to (and I think we will since FH's family is in the states and I can't imagine travel restrictions easing up anytime soon) we will postpone the reception and try to have our ceremony and photos on the date we picked.


I honestly like the idea of having the reception as a first anniversary party. It gives us an extra year to save up, we can still do a lot of the wedding things we wanted and even have a symbolic vow renewal for our families and friends to witness. Before we were engaged we had talked about eloping and having the party afterwards so I'm totally not opposed to pushing the party back. Ultimately our relationship is the most important part of our marriage and we will have that with or without a piece of paper or a party so if we have to wait for the whole thing I'll survive!

The situation of this virus has gone viral crazy for everyone. Businesses and vendors are looking out for their health first over wedding crowds over this time given back the deposit to the couple or postponed to a later date. Its hard to see a lot of couple disappointed with all their hard work and deposits/payments made through this time wanting their day to happen. Keep positive and calm to have all your vendors work with you through the date pushed forward along with the venue. It may seem the happiness has gone and your guests too not happy to travel out of the country to attend.