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PlantPotPat · 28/02/2021 13:34

Wedding booked for April 2021. It's the registration type, so just us and 2 witnesses.

We had planned to go away for the night afterwards, just us 2, and have a 'mini moon'. Obviously now we can't do that.

So now we are thinking perhaps it would be nice to invite a very small group of our closest friends to the city, have a posh dinner and drinks and then us stay the night for our 'mini moon' as planned originally.

What we are now trying to work out is do we change the wedding date to later in the year to do it all in one day, or keep the wedding as it is, and then have a celebration later in the year when (hopefully) restrictions are lifted? Will people think it odd to celebrate a marriage months after the event? We have 1 (just1!) photo of us that isn't a selfie and I'd dearly love a professional photographer to come and document our party/celebration but again, don't know if it's 'weird' if it's not the actual day of getting married??

I'm also worried we will change the wedding date and there is no guarantee covid won't fuck it all up again anyway and we still won't be married!

I'm just going round and round in circles and would like some outside perspective!

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PlantPotPat · 28/02/2021 13:38

We are also a bit worried that if we keep the date the same; the actual day of our wedding will be a bit of a disappointment? Go to the register office, get married, go home and stick the hoover round or something?! Because there's nothing else to do!

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Pukkatea · 28/02/2021 15:27

It doesn't have to be a disappointment - there will be something nice you could do to make the day special even at home. It all just depends on how much you want the traditional big day vs how much you want to be married. I think people will be very up for going to later celebrations and it will be the norm as so many people have ended up in the same situation! I'd do it and I'd wear a big wedding dress and have a photog and a cake and not care, but that's just me

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PlantPotPat · 28/02/2021 16:37

Thanks for replying.

I'm definitely leaning towards keeping it as it is, and seeing what we can do later in the summer. From what I've read on MN, it seems lots of people are doing similar.

We aren't very traditional anyway so don't want a whole 'white wedding' but there's always room for cake