Is anyone still holding onto their wedding this year?

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Who actually thinks weddings are still going to go ahead this summer? Do you think their will be restrictions? I'm so undecided in what to do

No I don't unfortunately... our registrars office had postponed weddings up to 31st August. It now looks as though they are postponing beyond then.

My July wedding has been postponed until next year.

I was offered the option to postpone to October but I was pretty sure even that would be too early.

We've postponed ours from 17th July 2020 to July next year.

Nowhere open to buy any bits, I didn't have a dress. Worried that some, if not all, social distancing measures would still be in place.

I can see them allowing weddings but no more than say 5 people attending like they did pre lockdown.

I’m still hopeful for October.

A lot of people are going to be affected because there are no notice of marriage appointments for the foreseeable future. As you have to wait a month from your appointment to being able to get married, it is going to delay a lot of ceremonies.

My registry office wedding is 1 July, we booked it a year ago. It's already a tiny one, just us and 2 witnesses. I'm still hoping it might go ahead. Surely with only 4 people (all in the same household) it's possible to do the social distancing? Obviously the Registry Offices are currently closed but I hope they might start working again in the summer - does anyone have any idea?

@Willowcat77 have you given notice?

The problem is the person conducting the ceremony isn't from your house. Are the people from your house old enough to be witnesses?

@bridecilla Yes we gave notice months ago. Witnesses are our children, both over 18. In theory, distancing could still work as it should be possible for the registrar to stand 2 metres away. I'm really hoping a tiny wedding will be possible by July...

There will be two registrar's at your wedding, 6 people altogether.
Weddings are, by law, public gatherings and public gatherings are limited to two people at the moment. Hopefully that will change soon, just wish I knew when and if it might be part of the first phase of lifting lockdown.

Ours is august and is currently still going ahead, under no illusions though lol

My end of August wedding has been rescheduled for next July

I'm praying my 27th December wedding goes ahead but have to admit it's feeling increasingly unlikely.

My wedding was postponed from end of March to end of September. Having to now consider postponing again but not sure when to male that decision. We luckily got everything moved before but we won't can do that for next year I don't imagine... who's to say things will even be normal next year? It's such a stress!

Mine is 20th June and the Vicar has told us to hold on and not cancel! he said we could still get a common licence beginning of June to get round the banns not being read. Not holding my breath though!

It's the social distancing problems that bother me.

Mines 29th August, in a regestry office. I'm still hoping it will go ahead. fingers crossed.

We are still holding on to our August date. It’s totally possible to get most things sorted over the phone/email with suppliers and I have bought everything we need for favours, centrepieces etc. online. Can’t get dress fittings just now, obviously, but that’s about the only thing left to wait for.

I don’t believe that postponing it makes the blindest bit of difference right now- hard to pick a new date with confidence until we know what the end of lockdown will look like. Plus coronavirus could come back annually like flu or something else could come up.

I think you're right, postponing wouldn't make me feel any better than I do now!

Same here. I don’t understand how people are picking new dates, unless they mean something to them or are the only dates available from their venues, and why people are so happy that they rescheduled- it’s not like coronavirus gave them a written guarantee it won’t disturb them on that date! I’ve not been worried too much until now but seeing that social distancing could continue for the rest of the year, according to some ministers, I am now worried there won’t be any dates left next year at our venue.

We have a new back up date pencilled in with our venue for next may, we are hoping to be able to decide with the next few announcements

I think that legally minimal versions might become available.

Funerals can currently have up to 10 attending. Perhaps similar could be done for weddings - with provision for anyone with an objection to come to the door to be heard (or there be a well publicised dial in for that)

I expect larger parties to celebrate the wedding are off for the foreseeable

The point is that no one actually knows. So it's an impossible situation. No one has any idea what the next announcement will be, or how long that announcement will even apply for. My major concern is holding my nerve in the absence of any concrete information, and then ending up scrambling around at the last minute cancelling everything. I'd prefer my venue to offer me a provisional new date but they aren't even open at the moment and none of the events team are in.

I'm definitely not compromising though, even if I have to wait 12 months.

Good for you @AnxiousElephant77 , you deserve the day that you have planned. Our venue’s team are working from home so I’m still in touch with them. I didn’t even think it could be possible to pencil us in for a provisional new date while keeping our current one, I will ask our venue. Did you have to pay extra for the second date being kept @Inferiorbeing ?

@StrongInside I didnt, but we have the most expensive date of this year so they want to keep us on side and not just cancel and my bosses husband is the one who manages the venue so I think that helped a lot. They are currently only letting Saturday july/August do it so far as we are paying a premium! We need to decide 6 weeks before what to do