Venue dilema

Hello all,



Hope everyone has been doing ok. I just have a question, and I am wondering if others have encountered this, and how they felt with it.
The contract we signed with our venue states that we have to pay the full amount of we cancel within 6 months of our wedding. (We signed the fall of 2018) Of course last year they allowed us to postpone to this summer. But as travel regulations have not changed any as of yet (and our venue in in NS) we were not planning on getting married there anymore as we don't want to be paying $10,000 + for a wedding that original was for 100 people and will more then likely now just be 12 people. And we can't afford to quarantine for 2 weeks in a hotel and still get married there.
Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this? Did you end up having to pay in full? Was your venue more forgiving since this is a unpredictable situation? Should I just try to get them to postpone, then cancel before the 6 months of the new date? We have already come to terms that our $5000 that we already paid will be gone. But I don't think it's quite fair that we have to pay the full amount for a service that isn't provided, just because we can't enter the province.
Opinions, thoughts and recommendations are welcome.
Thanks!