Anyone else getting super stressed about a wedding booked in the next few months because Covid?

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Wedding is booked for Feb, originally last Feb but postponed a year due to lockdown.

I’m finding it incredibly stressful with the increasing doom and gloom news and not being confident it will actually happen! We are continuing to plan but it’s all making me very anxious to the point I’m thinking a lockdown is the simplest scenario to just postpone again but I really don’t want to 😭.

But the what if’s?! What if we get covid in the lead up? What if our closest family do and miss the day? What if we have to reduce numbers? What if no one wants to come because of concerns over Covid?

We have booked and paid for a verrrry expensive package with our venue (my partners family are travelling from a flight away and we are paying for everyone’s accommodation, some for 2 nights!). We can afford the big day due to successful careers and when we booked, before Covid, it seemed a wonderful idea to get everyone together and we were happy to pay. However it would be gutting to have to pay all this money and then no one comes and we sit there in a large barn with just a small group! Or we get Covid that week and pay all the money and don’t end up married! Or we have to make a choice whether to proceed without a loved one OR lose the money! SO many what if’s are worrying me - the whole point was a once in a lifetime opportunity to have all our family and friends together and it makes me SO sad and stressed to think of it all falling apart!

Anyone else feel like this or make me feel any better?!

I totally understand how you feel! Our wedding is a week tomorrow in Wales and I'm feeling increasingly more anxious and that it won't be happening. So sad when we are so close 😭. Still keeping everything crossed, but my best friend even just said to me he doesn't think it's going to be able
To happen 😔. Waiting for the next Welsh review announcements which are due Friday, so three days before our wedding is supposed to be.

I feel for everyone in this situation it's very stressful!!

My sister is getting married in the first week of January. She's chilled. My mum on the other hand is on the ceiling!

I get married a week on Monday and I'm very nervous. It's hard not to be when someone asks me if I'm worried every thirty five seconds.

Thanks for sharing, I am not alone! We intended to have 80+ people for 2 nights and I think my biggest fear is that we pay for it all, there is no lockdown or economic support for venues and we have to go ahead but no one turns up 😞.

If there was a lockdown, at least the venue can let us move the date. What a sad state of affairs. My friend was in this position in April 2020 and nearly 2 years later, no one can be sure they will get married, still! So sad!

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Thanks for sharing, I am not alone! We intended to have 80+ people for 2 nights and I think my biggest fear is that we pay for it all, there is no lockdown or economic support for venues and we have to go ahead but no one turns up 😞.

If there was a lockdown, at least the venue can let us move the date. What a sad state of affairs. My friend was in this position in April 2020 and nearly 2 years later, no one can be sure they will get married, still! So sad!

We should be getting married Monday (I'll properly believe it once we are at the altar!), but we've had 16 out of 89 guests pull out in the last few days which we will still have to pay full price for 🙈.

I feel your pain! We are due to get married on 15th January and am so worried now it won’t happen. I was always prepared for people to drop out due to covid but not for the whole thing not to go ahead. My fiancé is still feeling positive though.
And hear hear to people asking every 5 mins if I’m worried whether it will go ahead or not - doesn’t help at all.
Let’s hope we all get the day we want, on the day we want.

I feel you. Mine is the 5th February and I just wish they'd decide whether there's going to be a lockdown or not. They're not going to say before Christmas...but like some sort of torture they're doing some weird 'we haven't ruled it out'...

At least a lockdown would mean we could move it, however difficult that will be - not that I want to go find my 5th date, with all my suppliers, hoping there's at least one day they all have that isn't taken up by 2020, 2021 and already booked in 2022 brides.

I only have about 50 guest - 60 evening total. My biggest fear all along was that people wouldn't turn up, and I'm just increasingly worried that a combination of can't or won't will not turn up on the day, despite rsvp. Totally get some might actually get covid and can't, but they'll no doubt be others who decide they can't risk it after all.

I'm just powering through the planning. Last year, I practically stopped and found it difficult to restart, so I'm hoping I'll just have it done and be able to move it wholesale with little additional cost if I have to move it...

My friends got married this week, nearly everyone still went even though they were risking Christmas. Scotlands new restrictions don't include weddings.

My sister got married on Tuesday. It was a lovely day. She's now got covid! No one else has.

Hi OP, I hope you are feeling a bit better about things now, it is looking increasingly likely that things over the next few months will be safe to go ahead. Fingers crossed for you.

Ahhh thanks @violetanemone we are thinking it’s more hopeful and have just decided we’re going to isolate as strictly as we would as if we had Covid in the 2 weeks beforehand to avoid any last minute disaster Covid tests!

And congrats to everyone who has made it down the aisle recently!

Yep!

Our wedding was cancelled 2020 x 2, 2021 and now it’s planned for June 2022. After rearranging so much we’ve decided we are definitely going ahead this year but it does worry me that it might not be what we planned.