To ask what your lockdown wedding was like?

[Rossaloony]

To those who have gone ahead and got married after the 'no weddings at all' lockdown restriction was lifted, what was your experience like? Do you have any regrets about doing something smaller or were you glad of the excuse to have a small wedding?

Am weighing up the pros and cons of waiting and having something bigger, or just going ahead with a tiny wedding.

We had a very small ceremony (parents and witnesses only) at a local outdoor beauty spot, followed by drinks and nibbles. I am so glad we ended up doing that rather than the enormous weekend long party we cancelled.
While I'm sure the party would have been great fun, cancelling and doing what we did really made us reassess our priorities and we are both much happier having done our gorgeous intimate ceremony.
(and I'm normally a total party person!)

That's sounds idyllic @Toolonglurking 😍 was it a registrar or celebrant?

We had a humanist celebrant, she was lovely. We'd written the service together with her, and then when everything changed she helped us reword parts and rewrite bits so it was more appropriate.

We are still planning ours as our two of our friends.

We started planning just before covid hit and were intending a 150 people wedding.

I am happy with our end plan (registry and renting out a nice restaurant) budget is 15k for everything we will have 20 for late lunch and 35 for canapes evening. I like we are saving money too ( although 15k still feels like a lot to spend!)

Fiancee is okay with this but feels its the "best plan b" and is v sad for our original wedding, which admittedly was an amazing venue but retrospectively the thought of planning it leaves me exhausted.

Other friends who are marrying were due to marry in june.
Their venue wont refund (They are locked in to the venue w/ a 10k deposit for 150 person wedding) and they have been pushed to a friday in november due to date availability.
The guy "refuses to think about it until september" and the female said less than 20 people accepted and having 20 people in a 150 venue is noy wjat she wanted and at this point just feels "dead inside" re the wedding
They desperately want to cancel and replan something in a more size appropriate venue. I feel terrible for them.

Our original list came to 55 too @LadyFrumpington, nowhere near that budget though!! We've got about 6grand to work with.

I quite like the idea of going down the registry office with our kids and grabbing a stranger off the street as a witness, but our families would go mad

@Rossaloony if that's what you want to do, do it and blame it on Covid, all bets are off at the moment!