Ways to Tell People you are postponing

Im going to email my guests. we are in the same boat we sent invites already. some people have responded yes even tho we know they cant come and most people havent responded at all..... we also did our website and updated it relating to covid-19 so people have been checking there

View quoted message Aw you’re welcome! And I feel you 100%. As cute and fun as change the date cards are, I personally wasn’t keen on dropping hundreds of extra dollars to print them and mail them. And honestly reaching out to people directly was actually really nice. An excuse to catch up with friends and family, see how they’re faring, etc. And in the process we got tons of reassurance that everyone was still excited and would be there with bells on when our new date rolls around. I hope the process goes/has gone smoothly for you!!

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THANKS A LOT! We decided to just message our guests via social media or phone. And update our website. I dont want to spend anymore money on invitations

Guests being aware of the postponement can go many ways

1. Social media - simple note for all your guests to update their plans for next year due to the times. Email/FB/WhatsApp/Facetime/Twitter/text options to guests of their way of communication.

2. Create a message for postponing on Microsoft word printing on a pattern sheet. Take a picture or cut into card size to mail out to everyone on your list.

3. Calling personally is nice to know what is happening now to expect changes made upon the decision.

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We were planning to do this but not 100% sure if its appropriate through fb.

View quoted message Thanks so much!

We postponed our wedding and did an announcement on social media! Another option could possibly be sending out an email and directing people to your wedding website for further updates! Also depending where you got your invites check and see if they have a reprint gurantee (both Shutterfly and Vistaprint are offering free reprints for date changes for invites where the date was affected by COVID!)

My fiance and I let all of our guests know through facebook and whoever didn't have facebook we called them directly

I've seen some really cute photo postponement announcements. I would pair that with something along the lines of "even though we can't wait to celebrate, we have to wait until next year/new date".


Some people are using bottles of Corona, or taking cute masked smootches, and you could ask a friend or family member to snap a few to email to guests or send over Facebook. For the older crowd that isn't online you can just call them to let them know.

If you'v already collected RSVPs through your website, you can message them directly there too.

We were in the same situation - invites had already been sent out. Basically, our parents called all family, and we did a Facebook post for our friends, and let them know we were postponing.

We ordered "postponement" cards - so people can "save the date" for next year. Once we receive those we'll send them out to everyone.

We made a Facebook post with a fun "corona" picture we took and both us and our family shared it. Anyone who had RSVP'd I emailed them back notifying them. And then word of mouth to co-workers, family and friends. We postponed 08/08/2020 to 08/14/2021. We will also be sending out new save the dates. Not 100% sure when yet and then when the time comes we will mail out new invitations.

Luckily we haven't sent our invitations yet, just an electronic Save the Date. So we decided to send an electronic "Save the New Date". My fiancé just made up a cute little image with text saying "Due to the current pandemic we have decided to postpone our wedding. Please save our new date of ..." We're just going to forward those out this weekend through text, email or messenger.

Also - sorry about your postponement 😢 I hope you’re at least feeling some relief!

If you have one, an update on your wedding website would be a great starting point. But if you don’t have a website, or don’t want to place all your eggs in that basket, it might be a matter of contacting people directly by whatever means possible. So, email whoever you can, use social media, call people if necessary, etc. And keep track of who you’ve spoken with to ensure you’re covering all bases.


If you have a huge guest list definitely divide the labour! I assigned groups to my FH, his parents, and my parents and trusted they would contact those guests. I also started Facebook threads with the various friend groups in my life so I could update everyone in that group at once.
If you want to do something more official then perhaps an electronic change the date card? Via paperless post or something? I don’t know much about that but I’m sure others will chime in. Only thing is that would require a complete email list.