Rescheduled wedding to October....please can I have some reassurance?

[Almondsincake]

We were due to get married in 2 weeks time and for obvious reasons had to cancel. Luckily we can have the wedding later in the year - legal bit still up in the air. We thought long and hard about our change of date and decided on the 31st of Oct 2020. We have very valid reasons on deciding this date....but.....

I am now worried it's too soon. I am so upset with our cancellation of our first wedding I am now so worried I have picked the wrong date

Just need a bit of support and reassurance, can anyone share their stories thank you x

Hello.

Our wedding has been cancelled too (end of May) and we're hoping to rebook in October too. Just waiting for the registry office to get back to me.

I'm also not sure if it's too soon and whether to just move to next Spring.

So I'm no help am I 😂, but you're not on your own!

My friend was due to get married in a week (absolutely gutted for her/ you) and she's just rescheduled for the 24th October.
I know we can't say for definite but it's seven months away... ages and ages!

I'm supposed to be getting married in October, as well as a friend of ours. Hoping to still be able to go ahead with it, still plenty of time before the date.

I've rescheduled from 9th May to 30th October. Very much hoping things will be a bit more normal then.

Our wedding was to be at the end of may too. The first available Saturday we could get for rescheduling was in May 2021. We’re probably going UK have the actual ceremony ASAP really and just have a big party to celebrate next year.

Why do you think you’ve picked the wrong date, @Almondsincake? A Halloween wedding would be fun.

I’m sorry for you all 🌷

@Almondsincake. I’d go ahead with the ‘legal bit’ and leave the rest until next year , I’d try for the same date that you get married this year & have a big party when things feel celebratory myself.

I think October for big gatherings could still be risky due to the ‘waves’ & if people are travelling for it.

Obviously if you’re already booked for them it’s still very much ‘wait & see’ but I wouldn’t set out to book for then myself.

Halloween is an excellent day to get married - nobody ever forgets your anniversary!

Another end of May wedding here, we've rescheduled to next July. Our venue aren't taking any more bookings for the rest of 2020 now but they may just be overly cautious. I was thinking along the same lines as Amelie about the virus coming back in waves, especially in winter, but if you've booked the date I'd just wait and see. I would personally try to avoid paying for anything else unless you absolutely have to just in case x

We’re mid-May. We cancelled the reception a while back, but were hoping to get the legal bit done. As it would now be at the registry office, we have to give notice again, which probably isn’t going to happen...

But I think there will be weddings in October. I’m not sure if there will still be social distancing, but I’d imagine it’ll have relaxed a bit by then... you’ve left a decent amount of time!

All the best.

Are you my soon to be SIL

My brother was meant to get married 2 weeks tomorrow but they’ve rearranged to October.

I’m really not sure it’ll go ahead then either but we’re keeping our fingers crossed.

@ShellsAndSunrises I was wondering about what would happen about having to give notice again if only small registry ceremonies are available. I’d imagine the government can relax some rules in such a way that allows registrars to change locations to registry offices for ceremonies in a particular time frame. Or at least to drastically shorten the time needed for giving notice again for a virus forced change of venue (and not charging you the £70 again).

Failing all that, we were wondering about the possibility of just asking the venue to rent us a (small) room to do the legal bit at the end of May if they’re allowing weddings by then.

We’ll see though. The legal bit is really the important bit - everything else can wait.